Agenda

The event has been postponed to June 5th

The webinar is part of the International Webinar Series “Transformative Plurilingual Education through Museums and the Arts” organised by the MILE research group in collaboration with Laboratorio Itals and Laboratorio LaDiLS. Abstract Following the so-called multilingual turn (May 2014) there has been a growing interest in the promotion of translingual practices in different language learning contexts. Among such practices, arts-based activities are said to enable learners to experiment with their linguistic resources and critically reflect on how they use them (Anderson 2018), opening up "fluid and dynamic ways of being in the world" (Moore, Bradley, & Simpson 2020) and of meaning-making (Hirsu, Zacharias, & Futro 2021). In our presentation, we will show how the museum is ideally placed to promote such a transformative language learning experience by reporting on the didactic framework and main results of the project Io vado al museo (I go to museum). The project was initiated in 2022 through a collaboration between the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy) and the MILE research group of Ca' Foscari University and continues to this day. Specifically, we will first present the pre- and post-visit translingual activities conducted in the classroom, as well as the translingual workshops held during museum visits. These activities were designed and implemented collaboratively with museum educators and teachers participating in the project. Following this, we will discuss the findings of a critical ethnographic study that investigated how translanguaging pedagogy was applied and adapted within the project, considering the interplay between school and museum contexts. Additionally, we will examine the project’s impact on museum educators, students, and teachers. Different types of data, including observations, field notes, interviews, and artefacts, will be used to give a detailed account of the project dynamics and lessons learned.
Registration for the webinar is kindly required by completing the google form at this link.
Participation in the webinar series is free.
For questions, please contact mile@unive.it