Intellectual Outputs

At the end of this project, teachers and trainers in Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and elsewhere will have access to the following Intellectual Outputs:

• O1 – An online database of artworks dealing with emigration
• O2 – An online methodology handbook for using art in the classroom in order to transform attitudes
• O3 – A training course for teachers on using art for transformative learning

Description

This database will contain pieces of art dealing with the emigration experience in Greece, Turkey, Italy and France/Romania. Each piece of art will accompanied by descriptions and historical evidence placing the artwork into context.

Innovation

There is no other similar database in existence. Furthermore, it will also be an educational database, offering information about the artwork and its context.

Impact

It will be used by at least 400 teachers and trainers to transform student attitudes towards refugees.

Transferability potential

This database is transferable to other school subjects, e.g. art, history of art, history (of national emigration), as oral prompts in teaching foreign languages and more. It can also be used by scholars interested in migration and art, or just people interested in perusing Greek, Turkish, etc art, or the topic of emigration.

Description

This handbook will show teachers and trainers how to use art in general, and our database in particular in order to transform attitudes towards refugees and other migrants.

Innovation

Although there are papers and book chapters on the “Transformative learning through aesthetic experience” method, there is no introductory handbook available. Furthermore, this book will be accompanied by specific examples on how to use artwork from a certain database in order to achieve certain goals.

Impact

It will be used by at least 400 teachers and trainers to transform student attitudes towards refugees.

Transferability potential

This method is transferable to many other learning contexts. both in adult and non-adult education. Since there is no other introductory handbook for this method in English, it can be used by anyone interested in the method – and for free.

Description

This will be a training course for educators training them in the “Transformative learning through aesthetic experience”. This course will be used as a base for future KA1 courses on this method.

Innovation

There is no KA1 course on using art as a transformational tool.

Impact

12 teachers will benefit from this course directly. When they return to their country they will hold seminars at their organisations training their colleagues. From the end of the course onwards, there will be an annual KA1 course for 25 teachers per year. In total, about 125 teachers will benefit directly during the course and, possibly, another 250 in the following 10 years. If half the teachers use this method in two of their classes, then 3,000 students will
benefit indirectly during the course.