Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 2047376
Sist endret: 18. oktober 2023, 21:13

Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 2047376
Sist endret: 18. oktober 2023, 21:13
Prosjekt

OTHERNESS – TOGETHERNESS – AESTHETICS

prosjektleder

Joanna Magierecka
ved Institutt for estetiske fag ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

prosjekteier / koordinerende forskningsansvarlig enhet

  • Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Humaniora

Emneord

Interaktiv læring • Estetiske læreprosesser

Kategorier

Prosjektkategori

  • Anvendt forskning

Kontaktinformasjon

Tidsramme

Avsluttet
Start: 1. april 2021 Slutt: 31. mars 2023

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Tittel

OTHERNESS – TOGETHERNESS – AESTHETICS

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag

OTHERNESS-TOGETHERNESS-AESTHETICS is a research project, with a focus on aesthetic learnings processes and Shakespeare’s works. The objective of the project is also to strengthen bilateral relations in education between Poland and Norway.

The Norwegian team, USN campus Notodden, will be developing workshops, where the Polish participants will explore aesthetic learning processes as a method. The participants will later develop courses and apply those methods at each participating university in Poland.

The project, coordinated by Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre (GST), methodically supported by University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Campus Notodden, is based on cooperation with four Polish universities with the aim of implementing aesthetic learning processes in the Polish curriculum. It has received financial support through EEA Grants, The Education Program.

Five project teams are to meet in Gdansk for training and sharing experience. During the first term, Polish universities will be cooperating with Norwegian specialists to create a new course that is intended to be implemented to the curriculum from summer term. The participating Universities are:

 

  • University of Gdansk
  • Tischner European University Krakow
  • University of Warsaw
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan

 

Students subscribing to the created course will have the opportunity to participate in a 10-days academic camp in Gdansk, organized to broaden the knowledge and enable networking. The project includes a Shakespeare’s science camp with a public artistic presentation and will be summed up at the academic conference in Notodden Fall 2022.  A book containing peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as other form of documentation will be the result of the project.

Vitenskapelig sammendrag

Through this project, we wish to investigate which methods, theories and educational policies can highlight what characterizes the unique qualities of aesthetic learning processes.

Otherness and togetherness, the themes that we will explore in this context, are important aspects in the development of democracy. Aesthetic learning processes use varied methods, forms of expression and tools that can explore those topics through the transformative and / or performative possibilities of aesthetics. Therefore, we wish to examen different approaches to aesthetic learning processes that explore otherness and togetherness. Those approaches derive from art pedagogical strategies associated with contemporary art and drama and theatre. Amongst those are staging strategies, performative strategies, dramaturgical strategies, and theatrical strategies. All of them are collective strategies, where relational interaction between the participants body, cognitive and emotional processes and text, space, and time is of importance. We have chosen Shakespeare's universe as our starting point because there we find a thematic richness and human complexity that transcends historical periods, communities, and cultures.

As a field of research, aesthetic learning processes spans across « art and artistic practices, aesthetics and aesthetic activities, science and research practices» (Lindstrand & Selander, 2009, p. 122). This field of research presents a variety of aesthetic perspectives with different epistemological implications (Hohr & Pedersen, 1996; Austring & Sørensen, 2006, 2019; Illeris, 2006, 2009, 2012). Aesthetic learning processes can be defined as learning through work with artistic and aesthetic forms of expression. Here the aesthetic forms of expression, and those expression in context that are the focal point and outset for the learning processes that are created (Krosshus, 2021). 

The project aims at developing new teaching methods and contributes to a new curriculum working towards 21. Century skills. Although practiced for years, aesthetic learning processes have been an underestimated approach in research and education. The general part of the Norwegian school reform (Fagfornyelse) emphasizes interactive teaching methods and extended learning (dybdelærning). The new Norwegian teacher education reform highlights aesthetic approaches towards learning. We consider and work with aesthetic learning processes as an important part of the educational system and the formative process of children and young adults learning through aesthetic experiences - or aesthetic learning processes here in Norway. Through the project we wish to share this approach, our research, and methods with our Polish partners.

Metode

We wish the project to revolve around devising didactics, based on concrete aesthetic practice, and linked to aesthetic and practical methodologies such as art-based research (Barone & Eisner, 2012), performative research (Haseman 2006; Østern & Knudsen 2019) and theories of performativity (Østern & Knutsen, 2020; Haseman, 2006; Ulvund, 2012). How knowledge is acquired through aesthetical approach (Rasmussen 2013, Borgdorff 2011; Gürgens and Rasmussen (red) 2012), considering at the same time dramaturgy (Knudsen, 2018; Gladsø, 2019; Szatkowski, 2020) as well as phenomenology and social constructivism as theoretical backdrop.  

These different approaches can be applied separately or combined. Art based research can be defined as a methodology that at an overall level is about providing space for artistic and aesthetic activity in various ways: as empirical, research method and form of communication (Rasmussen 2013, 262). We have acquired our definition of performative research as a research paradigm from Østern and Knudsen. Hence, we use “art as lenses to understand the world and provide new and exciting sites for theory production, research, teaching practice and education” (Østern & Knudsen, 2019, p. 1).

Methodologies are about highlighting results from empirical findings, through analysis as well as reflective and theoretical considerations. More advanced methodological models of exploration through aesthetic practice are possible results of the research. In our case, the main goal is achieving new insight into and knowledge about how aesthetic learning processes can explore the themes of otherness and togetherness through Shakespeare's universe. 

prosjektdeltakere

prosjektleder

Joanna Magierecka

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Institutt for estetiske fag ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
Aktiv cristin-person

Lars Frers

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for kultur, religion og samfunnsfag ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Elin Bøen-Olsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for pedagogikk ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Tone Cronblad Krosshus

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for estetiske fag ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

Ingvild M Birkeland

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektdeltaker
    ved Institutt for estetiske fag ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge
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Resultater Resultater

Aesthetic learning processes as concept, education term, research field and practice – a short introduction .

Krosshus, Tone Cronblad; Magierecka, Joanna; Birkeland, Ingvild M. 2023, Universitas Gedanensis. USNVitenskapelig artikkel

Structuring practices of aesthetics: The Norwegian contribution to the project .

Magierecka, Joanna; Krosshus, Tone Cronblad; Birkeland, Ingvild M; Bøen-Olsen, Elin; Frers, Lars. 2023, Universitas Gedanensis. USNVitenskapelig artikkel

Aesthetical learning processes and togetherness.

Magierecka, Joanna. 2021, USNBrosjyre

Aesthetic learning processes and togetherness https://alt.usn.no/ .

Magierecka, Joanna. 2021, USNNettsider (opplysningsmateriale)
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