The ADVOST project aims to enhance educators' knowledge of multiple storytelling pedagogies including perspectives of land-based learning. The research-based development of composing narratives with young learners through art, writing, photography, performance and digital representations privilege young children’s voice enabling their full citizenship. These research-based initiatives will contribute to the development of child centered learning that is focused in land-based pedagogy and play.
The objectives of the study are to:
This project addresses new means in supporting social cohesion in diverse communities, empower local communities and support all citizen's invlovement and active participation in them. ADVOST aims to meet these needs by looking at both processes and outcomes of social innovations promoting young children’s voices and agency through development and analysis of diverse ways for children to express themselves. The project contributes to young children and their families’ individual empowerment and wellbeing as well as those of the local communities. Practically, this is implemented through the three cases one in each participating country Finland, Canada and the UK.
Case 1: Finland
The Finnish case aims to produce new knowledge to language learning context that is demanding and diverse. Pedagogical innovations are needed in order to promote young children's language skills and identity building, especially with children living outside of traditional Sámi areas. One answer to this challenge is distance education. The Finnish case study will explore new and innovative pedagogical models to provide culturally relevant pre-school education for 5 and 6 years old children via online learning environments.
Research privacy notice for Finnish case (in Finnish)
Finnish case project in Lacris (in Finnish)
Case 2: Canada
The Canadian case study will explore the ways that digital media, play, and land-based teaching approaches can come together to enhance storytelling in inclusive ways that augment literacy and language learning through culturally relevant arts-based approaches. The Canadian case study will examine how pre-school children use material culture (everyday objects) to make connections to places in which they live and learn, in order to share stories about their lives.
Case 3: UK
The UK case study will examine how practitioners might be better supported to work within diverse communities that permit the voices of all pupils to be heard and their perspectives be taken into consideration when planning for teaching and learning. The case study will work with practitioners to explore principles of practice focusing on theoretical notions of voice, space, audience and influence that might facilitate the voices and agency of all young children in educational settings and contribute to social cohesion both within the school setting and beyond into the community at large.
The project is funded by Trans-Atlantic Platform Social Innovation call, by three funding organisations: Academy of Finland, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and UK Research and Innovation (ESRC). Project period is 1/2020-2/2022.
The project is part of activities of UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education.
The project partners are University of Lapland, Finland (project leader), Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Leeds Beckett University, UK.
The cooperation partners are:
Finland: Sámi Education Institute, Regional State Administrative Agency, Utsjoki Municipality / Sámi Distance Teaching project, and Rovaniemi City
Canada: Memorial Childcare Centre, Rennie's River School, and The Rooms
UK: 'Look Who's Talking' Research Group, Up for Learning, Boothroyd Primary Academy, and Mayfield Primary School
26.3.2020
UArctic Thematic Network held a seminar and a book launch event on 11th of March at the University of Lapland.
23.3.2020
The first meeting of ADVOST project, held on 16-18 March online, was very successful and gave a great start for project.
3.3.2020
Open seminar on Indigenous Education will discuss educational contexts of indigenous people in Greenland, Canada and Australia. The seminar will take place at the University of Lapland, Department of Education, in room ss22, and it is hosted by ADVOST research project and UArctic Thematic Network Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity.
4.11.2019
The project focuses on agency and voice of young children in marginalized, indigenous and immigrant children with diverse ethnical and cultural backgrounds.
Tuija Turunen
Project leader, Principal Investigator Professor Faculty of Education University of Lapland tuija.turunen(at)ulapland.fi
Pigga Keskitalo
Dr., Researcher Faculty of Education University of Lapland pigga.keskitalo(at)ulapland.fi
Hanna Helander
Junior Researcher Faculty of Education University of Lapland hanna.helander(at)ulapland.fi
Anne Burke
Principal Investigator Professor Faculty of Education Memorial University of Newfoundland amburke(at)mun.ca
Associate Professor Brock University Adjunct Professor Memorial University of Newfoundland dcollier(at)brocku.ca
Principal Investigator Dr., Senior Lecturer Carnegie School of Education Leeds Beckett University M.C.Beaton(at)leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Susan Atkinson
Dr., Senior Lecturer Carnegie School of Education Leeds Beckett University S.J.Atkinson(at)leedsbeckett.ac.uk