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Erasmus Plus KA2 project that aims to support European schools to implement the Visual Thinking Strategies method to enhance Learning with Visual Arts

06/03/2023

Last Transnational Partner Meeting in . Organized by The Finnish Museum of Photography. Our amazing learning pathway is approaching its conclusion.

Visual Thinking Strategies Dublin City Council Léargas Crea360 Muserum Dublin Arts Council

09/12/2022

A talk that all parents need to hear

02/12/2022

What is for you?

Looking to Understand Erasmus Plus is composed of a series of training on social inclusion, delivered by Senior Trainer Yoon Kang-O’Higgins. During the last training, in Dublin, in October 2022, we asked the learners what they thought inclusion was, now that they were coming to the end of the project, and what they thought the impact of the project had been for them.

Watch the video to hear from the learners!

Léargas Visual Thinking Strategies The Finnish Museum of Photography Crea360 Muserum

‘Looking to Understand Inclusion’ is a 2-year project funded through the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. It aims to support educators from local arts and education communities to use the Visual Thinking Strategies method to promote social inclusion with children and young people. The par...

17/11/2022

https://ojs.mau.se/index.php/educare/article/view/791

An article published in the education studies journal , by our colleague Shaun Nolan

The reference + link is here:

Nolan, S. (2022). VTS in the English language classroom in Sweden: Visuality, paraphrasing and collective thinking in support of language learning. Educare, (4), 127–144.

Léargas Visual Thinking Strategies

05/11/2022

https://www.kauniaistenlukio.fi/blogi/opiskelijoiden-kokoama-nayttely-avautui-valokuvataiteen-museon-k1-kamp-galleriassa/

A blog post about an exhibition curated by art students in Kauniainen High School for Finnish Museum of Photography as a part of our Looking to Understand Inclusion -project in .

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Maryn kahdet kasvot -näyttelyn avajaisia juhlittiin 3.11 Valokuvataiteen museon K1 Kämp Gallerian työpajatilassa. Näyttelyn ovat kuratoineet Granin lukion valinnaisen Ku4-opintojakson opiskelijat.

05/10/2022

Visual Thinking Strategies training in !

Learners from Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Finland and Denmark living a extraordinary experience this week, thanks to VTS and program.

Léargas Erasmus plus project Dublin City Council

04/10/2022

Partner meeting in ! 🎉

Eating and talking about decolonising food with Rudi-Lee McCarthy commissioned by Barrett Sheena in The LAB Gallery, hiding behind banners, doing some VTS, and stretching and dancing in between all these serious chats!!

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Erasmus Plus Projects

11/04/2022

Learning together VTS and inclusive ways to make meanings in small groups at the great . Last week, our international learners had the chance to live it.

Visual Thinking Strategies Léargas

10/04/2022

What happened last week in Amsterdam with our trainees?

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Léargas Erasmus+

Durant una setmana, els i les participants aprofundiran sobre metodologies de pensament visual per a la inclusió social d'alumnes de primària i secundària…

08/04/2022

On 5th April 2022, partners have met to coordinate project implementation in .

Project research, next training activities and other project issues were debated and planned for the next months.

Léargas Dublin City Council Crea360 Muserum VTS Danmark Suomen valokuvataiteen museo

17/02/2022

Let us share with you this interesting group 'Black and Irish', who created a series of resources on how to approach racism. It's all available on their website: https://www.blackandirish.com/lush

It's really interesting and helpful so we thought we should share it with you!

Léargas Visual Thinking Strategies VTS Danmark Muserum The Finnish Museum of Photography Dublin City Council Dublin Arts Council Crea360

Resources Download resources for more information on How to talk to kids about race and racismHow to interrupt racism & How to be an allyChildren's book suggestionsDiscover Anti-Racism figures Report on Inclusive Curriculum In 2021, Black and Irish teamed up with Black Inclusive Curriculum Ireland t...

01/02/2022

Hi everyone,

There is a series of talks taking place in February about Diversity & Inclusion in culture heritage institutions, that might be of interest to you.

You can book for each talk individually as you scroll down on that page:

https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeana-weave-event-series-on-diversity-and-inclusion

Visual Thinking Strategies Léargas

Join Europeana and the WEAVE project for a series of events on diversity and inclusion, and how cultural heritage institutions can widen European access to …

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An Erasmus Plus Project

The project is designed to innovate and develop the components of a methodology for educators in European partner countries to learn and use the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) method to facilitate Learning with Visual Arts in Schools and in Cultural Institutions with a remit for arts education. The results of this project will significantly contribute to the horizontal priority of the Erasmus+ Programme namely achievement of relevant and high quality skills and competences.

Schools tend to opt for transfer of information in arts education. Often teachers start by giving information about an artwork first, then follow with some audience-focused discussion. The VTS method shifts the emphasis to learner-centred processes, particularly using enquiry-led practice. Also, educators can experience isolation in schools if their visual arts teaching skills set are viewed as a specialism not relevant to the range of other school subjects thus affecting the motivation of educators. The VTS method facilitates development of foundation skills for other subjects such as maths, languages and science. There is also a need for better support systems for educators extending beyond the school confines which this project can address.

The VTS method scaffolds the learner’s responses to an artwork at the outset, using discussion as the gateway to understanding rather than the opposite way around as is the case in conventional arts education. The learner is encouraged to think speculatively and to acknowledge what their peer group is saying, then to put forward their own ideas. Often the learner begins to give evidence for what they are seeing without being prompted. With continuous practice, their levels of verbal articulation rise as does their confidence in speaking. After an extended period of working in a VTS context, the learner starts elaborating explanations with more critical art language.

The partners in the project are from six countries and range from large public institutions to small social enterprises and artists' associations. The project is co-ordinated by the Arts Office in Dublin City Council. The other partners are the Finnish Museum of Photography, VTS Nederland, Muserum in Denmark, the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies, and a Spanish consultancy working with schools, called CREA360. There are also eight associate partners who will collaborate in this project ranging from academic institutions to museums/galleries to government agencies.

The project objectives are focused on the major project results:

1) To develop a 'training of trainers' delivery mechanism in Europe to train and support educators in the VTS method. Educators are understood to encompass primary school classroom teachers, secondary school art teachers, as well as art museum facilitators/educators.

2) To offer schools and cultural institutions opportunity to introduce the VTS method into their classroom and museum/gallery setting.

3) To increase the use of art museums as settings for VTS teaching of visual arts.

4) To capture and share the impact of the training of educators and the pathways for using the VTS method in schools by developing one research framework across all partner countries.

5) To produce an image bank relevant to VTS compiled from European collections and artists' practice.

These objectives all form part of a methodology to effectively implement a new teaching method for visual arts education in schools. The main pillars are training of trainers to develop the capacity to train educators; research in schools to understand needs and challenges to change the curriculum; and development of learning materials to support educators and learners such as the European Image Bank.

The main target group and direct beneficiaries will be educators in schools. The target is to benefit educators from at least 4 schools during project period in each partner country. A selection process of schools will be initiated at the start of the project where the partners will agree and communicate criteria for school participation. Trainers trained in the project will train participating educators.

Each partner will be responsible for leading and managing the implementation of the VTS method in their native language, in their schools. The opportunity for synergies in this project stems from the good mix of skills in the partners and the possibility for sharing good practice between countries. The project will make accessible information on progress in all partner countries as well as knowledge gained across the project.

The impact of the project will be a level of trust and a modus operandi to continue with the coordination of the delivery mechanism for using the VTS method in schools in Europe together with capacity to conduct further research in the adoption and use of the VTS method in schools and confidence to 'export' the delivery mechanism into European countries not currently in the strategic partnership.