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The Mona Lisa at the Louvre, Paris

Mission

The future of cultural identity lies in the past. Vital relationships with the cultural past are increasingly regarded as crucial components of community health in a globalist world. This project aims to develop and test learning tools and environments for enhancing

co-creative exploration and learning in cultural heritage

We see this field as one that runs through many humanities disciplines. The project's particular expertise and focus is on archaeology, history and classical studies.

We aim to assess innovative pedagogy that encourages collaborative exploration of cultural heritage, including collaborative authoring software and ICTs which enable effective project-based and performance-based learning. We propose to evaluate our current experience of such pedagogy and to run and evaluate two new experimental classes. These cover pre-college, undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students.

We aim to test the proposition that learning environments in the humanities can be markedly enhanced by innovative pedagogy which is designed to reach beyond purely academic disciplines into community heritage by addressing interests in cultural and personal identity. We will do this using qualitative analysis of student interactions and use of ICT (our software records such data), and through qualitative assessment (interviews and case studies) of the experience and outcomes of the classes.

Our classes - running at Stanford and at Göteborg 2006-2007

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