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21st December 2006
Content:
- General information about the project “visuaLearning”
- Focus group discussions with students/learners
- Exhibition: “Pictograms – The Loneliness of Signs”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
- Qualification workshop with the partners of the project “visuaLearning”
1. General information about the project “visuaLearning”
Knowledge based societies today are highly focused on
sharing written information based on text. At the same time communication
through pictures, photos, images and icons has increased, so people need to be
aware what they mean and how to use them. This project looks at the meaning and
importance of visual learning in learning processes - especially in the field
of literacy, basic education and language teaching.
Activities
- Provide high quality teaching
in visual learning
- Setting up a local network of
training providers in each participating country
- Organising workshops to train
experts in visual learning
- Interviewing adult learners
about the importance of visual learning
- Developing materials about
visual learning
Target groups
Teachers and trainers in adult education settings will be
able to enrich their concepts. Learners will benefit because a wider concept of
learning allows a better fit to their individual needs.
Aims and results
With
this project we want to raise awareness about visual learning and train
teachers and trainers for visual learning. We will develop a gallery with
examples of visual learning, course materials and a handbook for.
2. Focus group
discussions with students/learners
As part of the EU Project “visuaLearning” we will be
holding focus group meetings with students/learners.
The purpose of these sessions is to gather, from a
sample of current students in a variety of settings,
- their experience of dealing with visual
learning in everyday life;
- their perception of how useful classroom
learning is to this experience; and
- their ideas for what would be helpful to
their learning.
The sessions will be recorded and then transcribed.
The data from these focus groups will be analysed with the method of
qualitative content analysis by each partner. The findings will be summarized
in reports, integrated in the course qualification concept and will become part
of the handbook for trainers being produced by the project team in 2007.
3. Exhibition: “Pictograms – The Loneliness of Signs”
4. November 2006 – 25. February 2007 -
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Fire
exit signs, arrows, no smoking signs - modern humanity is surrounded by
pictograms. Essential elements of a universally understood code, they naturally
occupy a central position in any discussion surrounding the role of signs in
art. In fact, as early as the beginning of the 20th century artists were
already working on the development of an international language which went
beyond the written or spoken word. Using some 350 exhibits from Germany and
abroad, the exhibition »Pictograms - the loneliness of signs« traces the
previously little explored art history of the pictogram right up to the present
day. At the end one is faced with the fascinating question: what happens when
an artist takes the mundane sign, intended to be read quickly, intuitively and
unambiguously, and throws it into the arena of art where everything is open to
interpretation?
Guided tours: friday, 6 pm, sunday, 3 pm
The exhibition is sponsored by the Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung
des Bundes).
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart – a guest at the Stuttgart Airport
27. October – 31. January 2007
Parallel to the exhibition
»Pictograms – The Loneliness of Signs«, the Kunstmuseum will present
pictogram-flags by Matt Mullican. The show will be hosted for the first time by
Stuttgart airport. In this unique exhibition location, which is by its very
nature full of pictograms giving instructions of where to go and what to do,
the question posed by the special exhibition in Stuttgart will be even more
apparent: what happens when a pictogram that has been created with the goal of
easy and quick comprehension is transferred to art?
The opening of this collaborative project hosted by the airport and the
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart was on Friday 26th October.
More information:
http://www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/en/index2.php
4. Qualification workshop with the partners of the project “visuaLearning”
Within the project we will develop a workshop concept for the qualification of
trainers and teachers. First step will be a workshop for the project team
hosted by the coordinator on the 1. of February 2007. Main topics will be
- Relevance
and importance of visual thinking (fragments of theory)
- Methods
of visual learning
- The power of images
- Learner
types (blended model)
- Project
learning with new media.
Later
the project will provide workshops within the local networks of participating
countries.
Contacts:
Project-coordinator:
Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE)
German Institute for Adult Education (DIE)
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 38 53113 Bonn
Germany
T (+) 49 228 3294-306
F (+) 49 228 3294-399
Contact person: Monika Tröster
Website: www.die-bonn.de/visual
Partner:
FiaTest Bucharest
FiaTest Group
Str. Transilvaniei 24
Sector 1 Bucharest
Romania
T (+) 40 21 312-1347
F (+) 40 21 312-2106
Contact person: Simona Gitu
Website: www.fiatest.ro
Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji
Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (ITeE-PIB)
Institute for Sustainable Technologies
National Research Institute
ul. Pulaskiego 6/10
26-600 Radom
Poland
T (+) 48 48 3644-241 ext: -205
F (+) 48 48 3644-760, 36447-65
Contact person: Malgorzata Szpilska
Website: www.itee.radom.pl
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
76 Lower Gardiner Street
Dublin 1
Ireland
T (+) 353 1 8099-191
F (+) 353 1 8555-475
Contact person: Fergus Dolan
Website: www.nala.ie
www.literacytools.ie (adult literacy
learning and tuition website)
Atrium
Research & Innovation Ltd
The Reflexion Foundation
Hofdwarsweg 12
6161 DD Geleen
The Netherlands
T (+) 31 46 4106-374
F (+) 31 46 4106-375
Contact person: Joost Thissen
Website: http://www.atriumbv.nl
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