Future events
Seminar “Mapping the field II – Ethnologists, anthropologists and folklorists as educators in various settings”
SIEF Working Group Cultural Perspectives on Education and Learning
Date & Time: Friday October 18th, 2024, 1:00-3:00 PM CET.
Place: Digital seminar, on Zoom. Zoom link will be distributed to participants.
The SIEF Working Group Cultural Perspectives on Education and Learning is welcoming you to its second seminar. The main idea of the seminar is to do a mapping of the field, this time to get a better view of ethnological, anthropological, and folkloristic contributions as educators, both within formal education such as schools, pre-schools and higher education, and within informal education taking place for instance in museums, archives and organizations. We also want to take a look at what our involvement in teacher training/teacher education looks like and how it is organised.
The seminar will take place on Zoom. It will start with a short introduction of the working group. The participants will then be given the opportunity to in groups present their own experiences as ethnologists/anthropologists/folklorists as educators within the field of education and learning, with the aim of getting to know each other and sharing experiences and interests. The discussions will include questions such as: What do ethnological/anthropological/folkloristic scholars contribute with as educators in higher education and in museums/archives/organisations? What kind of conditions are forming the possibilities of being an educator in these fields? How do we use cultural perspectives and ethnological, folkloristic and anthropological research in our role as educators outside our own disciplines?
All participants are expected to prepare a short (3 minutes) presentation of their own experiences and thoughts regarding being an educator and ethnologist/anthropologist/folklorist not only within our own academic disciplines but also in other contexts such teacher training programmes, multidisciplinary academic programmes, museums, archives, organisations and other areas.
Please send an email to the working group secretary Nadine Wagener-Böck, wagener(at)volkskunde.uni-kiel.de, by October 11th if you want to participate in the seminar. You will then receive the Zoom-link for the seminar.
Welcome!
Maria Zackariasson, co-chair
Erika Lundell, co-chair
Nadine Wagener-Böck, secretary
Past events
Seminar “Mapping the field – Ethnologists, anthropologists and folklorists in education and learning”
SIEF Working Group Cultural Perspectives on Education and Learning
Date & Time: Friday May 31st, 2024.
Place: Digital seminar, on Zoom.
The SIEF Working Group Cultural Perspectives on Education and Learning welcomed participants to its first seminar. The main idea of the seminar was to map the field and get a better view of ethnological, anthropological, and folkloristic research on education and learning, both within formal education such as schools, pre-schools and higher education, and within informal education taking place for instance in museums, archives and organizations.
The seminar took place on Zoom. It started with a short introduction of the new working group. The participants were then given the opportunity to in groups present their own experiences as ethnologists/anthropologists/folklorists within the field of education and learning, with the aim of getting to know each other and sharing experiences, interests and expertise. The discussions included questions such as: How does ethnological/anthropological/folkloristic research contribute to the field of education and learning? What are the most important (potential) research issues related to education and learning in the various national and local contexts we belong to? How can we strengthen our positions and competencies through this new working group?
