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Creative co-creation design processes in diverse teams contributing to inclusive schools for a sustainable future

2021-1-MT01-KA220-SCH-0000242192021Cooperation partnerships in school educationfinalizedGood practice
Countries: MT|IE|BE|NL · Grant: €222,565
Inclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationDevelopment of training coursesInitial and continuous training for teachers, trainers and other education staff

Objectives

The objectives of INCLUSION2 were: 1.Contribute to a more inclusive education and learning for a sustainable future; 2. Support teachers, school leaders and other education professionals to develop a more inclusive education and sustainable future; 3. See the diversity of teams as a strength for the above objectives; 4. Use the diversity of teams to creatively co-create and design processes to achieve the above objectives; (5) Develop R1, a frame of thinking to support diverse teams in their creative co-creation design processes; 6.Develop R2, tools that support diverse teams in creative co-creation design processes to realise inclusive education and learning for a sustainable future; 7.Develop R3 DLE (Digital Learning Environment) an online tool like 'Mesh-Guides' for school practice to support school teams in realising inclusive education and learning for a sustainable future; 8. Develop R4 bottom-up professional learning for diverse teams based on and in line with the frame of thinking, the tools and the online DLE; 9. Process-based creative co-creation and dissemination of R1,R2,R3 and R4 via the multiplier events M1,M2,M3,M4; 10 To disseminate the results of the project locally via M5 and internationally via M6 and M7.

Background

All teams are diverse, all students are diverse! If we want to realise education and learning for all students we need to realise schools as inclusive settings in which students learn in a sustainable way for their future and for future society. Effective professional learning of teachers happens in professional learning communities in which teachers creative co-create knowledge and skills to realise inclusive school settings and sustainable learning. The project INCLUSION2 focused on cocreation with school teams in school education in developing sustainable inclusive school practice and learning for sustainability by making use of the diversity in the teams. This ‘diversity’ is an important pedagogical knowledge building principle. Knowledge advancement depends on diversity of ideas, just as the success of an ecosystem depends on biodiversity. To understand an idea is to understand the ideas that surround it, including those that stand in contrast to it. It is a wealth of ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. Other important principles are ‘all ideas are improvable’ and community knowledge, and collective responsibility.

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