Engaging pedagogies
- Engaged pedagogies like sustainable education is students and teachers feel as their time in the classroom matters, “a community of responsbile persons”, and that is what we call the competence “joy of learning”.
New Horizons in our Classroom- learning in diversity
“The Crisis we face today is not educational, economic or political is one of imagination” (Otto Scharmer, MIT)
Creating more time in our classrooms
"Education should not feel like we are always running out of time"
The Exploration
“Study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with others people working dancing suffering …some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice…to appreciate this kind of interaction as study is not only to take a different view of history but also to blur boundaries between what can otherwise feel hopelessly separate: personal agency and structural change.” (Fred Moten)
We explore through social lens our 21st century educational context- engaging pedagogies; coming together as “one of the best-known agents for change”, as well a source of peace curriculum (UNESCO) building skills as artful communicators.
Our Challenge
20th century curriculum left us with a mindset of liniar problem solving, in how we approach and interract with problems around us, as if problems are something out there we need to fix, without any sourt of inner process, a binary thinking as “good or bed”, “faileure, success”, “us and others”. We hijacked what “success” looks like, and with that we lost practices for “the image of the one learning”, and finally as a larger community, missing the rich realities among us” replacing the curisity of who you are with hostility (Garrett Bradley) and resistance to change.
“To be equals, to be different” (Viktor Frankl)
The Invitation
In a world of wicked problems, problems that require WeQ collective intelligence together with other forms of intelligence, we educate with diversity as a way to create more time and actual “space” in which learning (relations) can happen. That is the fundamental for educating innovators. To practice WeQ (collective intelligence in the classroom) vital for 21st century Education (Kirsti Lonka) is to engage students-supporting individuals instead of mass pedagogy, cultivating responsability (respons-ability).
You can expect to strengthen your classroom “student agency” teaching, pursue projects and activities that require integrative leadership skills and diversity holding capacity, toolkit to support professional and personal development in your organisation, 21st century transversal competencies curriculum planning, coaching strategies transform conflict and tap in diversity potential and/or build research skills in preparation for “silent pedagogy”, active research in the classroom (studying how the learning actually happens), last not least setting autonomous learning context.
This program has been inspired by the methdology of the MA program for educators course called “Learning Diversity and Urban Studies”, at Vanderbilt University and I thank professor Chris Da Silva and the amazing community of MA students; pictures from the MA program 2023.
Stockholm Edition
12-16 July 2027
Participants will receive a practical guide, and they are invited to book their accommodation nearby area. Costs related to traveling, accommodation, and meals are to be paid by each participant.
We will invite participants to join the virtual learning space where they will access a detailed agenda, a toolkit for practices, and supporting material for the course approximately. 1 month before our program. By accessing the virtual learning space you will be able to meet the rest of the cohort
Team
Andreea Gatman
ICF Certified Coach, Organised over 150 teachers programs in Finland since 2016. Fulbright Humphrey Fellowship 2023-2024 at Vanderbilt University on a model of inner development skills, system thinking facing climate change, trauma informed education and distributed learning networks. Partnership Affilitation with Wond’ry Innovation Center. Andreea, has a BA in Political Science, MA in Europea Studies at Graz University and MBA in Public Governance at Modul University, Vienna. Emerging Strategies for Future Thinking (MIT, U-lab).
Christina da Silva- Distinguished Guest Professor (to be confirmed)
Professor da Silva’s research centers at the learning ecologies of linguistically/culturally diverse students; family and community resources in diverse urban in- and out-of-school contexts; and partnerships between family, community, school, and university that support the literacy learning of linguistically diverse learners and emphasize educational opportunity and equity. She has taught in public schools in Brazil and the United States and has worked with researchers in Chile, Brazil, and Mexico on implementing ecological models of community development.
New Horizons in our Classroom- learning in diversity
- Trainers: Andreea Gatman, Irina Sadakova, faculty guest prof. Christina da Silva (TBA)
- Start date: On demand (multiple locations)
- End date: On demand (multiple locations
