Description
Programme Erasmus+(action type: KA220-SCH - Cooperation partnerships in school education)
(project code 2021-1-BE02-KA220-SCH-000030256)
SenseSquared’s main objective is to show that a sensuous and artistic attitude can open up new and unexpected perspectives in educational settings. We show that adopting such an attitude can take place in a rather short amount of time. It is rewarding and joyful for everyone involved. It has a profound and lasting influence on the individual level. On top, it results in deep learning and aligns with the regular curriculum in schools. The main questions the project explores are: How can we relate to each other? How can we relate to the world? How can artists, researchers, teachers and children alike, shape the education that our society needs? The ‘temporal arts’, like music, dance, drama & performance art, serve as a model to investigate what it means to explore, to improvise, to vary and to compose in the context of shared and embodied experiences and activities based in the senses. As such, they reflect the main aspects by which we carry our lives. Taking the musicality of the mother-infant dyad as an evolutionary prototype for education, we show that a different stance to education is possible. SenseSquared shows that this new approach - isn’t difficult to understand and apply, - can gradually slip into the given school system, - can be interwoven with regular subjects within the curriculum, - has a profound positive impact on children-teachers interaction, - deeply and intuitively connects to the humanity of teachers and children, - contributes substantially to the intrinsic motivation and joy of learning. SenseSquared cooperates with teachers from pre-school/Kindergarten, over primary school to secondary education. The project offers an uninterrupted view on human mental and social development from birth till 18 years old, while evolving from a blurred understanding into more complexity. It allows new ideas to strongly take root in schools that already chose exploring new ways of becoming educated, while adding confidence and consistency to their pedagogical project. SenseSquared opens doors to address the needs of our current and future societies. It shows how education can free itself from outdated, unnecessary and sometimes even harmful ideas and habits. Together, we not only head towards, but also shape a future that will be in many ways different, and better.
| Period | 2022 → 2024 |
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| Held at | Musica, Impulscentrum voor Muziek, Belgium |
| Degree of Recognition | International |