Multilingual learning environments KZ-S-01-07-000002
The course helps students to build strategies for the conscious design and development of physical and virtual learning environments (that is, schoolscapes). It raises awareness of the role spatial arrangements play in institutional interaction and communication of various kinds (social relations, classroom interaction, organizational cultures of communication), and invites students to build a spatial and social understanding of multilingual learning. The course is available via FORTHEM Digital Academy. https://elearning.forthem-alliance.eu/
Lectures include:
visual semiotics,
linguistic landscapes,
virtual spaces for learning,
space in early education vs. at later stages,
designing in multilingual education.
Type of course
Mode
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge
1. P7S_WG
Students know methods of analysis of human beings as social agents within larger social structures and of rules according to which they function.
2. P7S_WK
Students know principles of operation and discourses of organizations relevant to professional activity in such fields as education and culture.
Skills
3. P7S_UW
Students can analyze case studies and problems, model and predict complex social phenomena.
4. P7S_UW
Students can apply a normative social paradigm in order to explain and solve a selected problem within social science and relate the solution to a particular category of social relations or social norms.
Social competences
5. P7S_KO
Students are able to fulfil social obligations by organizing interventions or actions for the community.
Assessment criteria
70% following the course in Moodle DA (according to the log) and submitting the post-tasks; 30% reading the literature on the subject and discussing it on the forum
Bibliography
The literature on which lectures are based will be referenced in the course. It may include:
Howard, P., I. Thompson, E. Waterton & Mick Atha (eds. 2013). The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. Routledge.
Johnson, N. B. (1980.) The Material Culture of Public School Classroom: The Symbolic Integration of Local Schools and National Culture. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 11 (3), 173–190. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3216324
Mäkelä, T., S. Mehtälä, K. Clements, J. Seppä (2020). Schools Went Online Over One Weekend: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Education Related to the COVID-19 Crisis. In Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2020. Waynesville: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 77-85. https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/71096
Menken, K., V. Pérez Rosario, L. Alejandro & G. Valerio: Increasing multilingualism in schoolscapes: New scenery and language education policies. Linguistic Landscape 4(2), 101–127.
Steele, D. M., & Cohn-Vargas, B. (2013). Identity safe classrooms: Places to belong and learn. Corwin Press.
Additional information
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