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Kongsskogen evaluation
The European Whispers partnership as been a very postive experience for learners and teachers at Kongsskogen vgs. During the last two years, eight students and ten teachers have travelled have made in total 28 travels and visited 4 countries.

The aim of the project was to tell stories, to watch their transformation in the meeting of the other and discuss differences and similarities between the participants. For Kongsskogen this project has been an unique opportunity to include youngsters who to a certain extent are living on the outskirts of society to participate in transnational and transgenerational meetings, and through these meetings express themselves and their experiences. During the Oslo meeting, we are especially proud of the science work shop where scientific experiments were used as a starting point for a personal story. This was very new, but very challenging for us !

The including atmospheare created, through the work shop methodology,a safe setting for the students, or as one said : « I became less critical to myself. I wasn’t as focused on the possible mistakes. When nothing was right or wrong, it became easier to try. » Our students used diffent ICT-tools, they initiated for instance the European Whispers facebook group which ended up beeing a main source of information for the project. In this way they made the exchange of friendship, of stories, of pictures and of ideas their own – and thus the ownership of project was dispersed so that all participants felt they owned the project. media type="youtube" key="P2yNPGloiWw?hl=nb" height="274" width="339"

For the teachers the possibility participate in a creative process on equal terms as our students became a great opportunity to see how other pedagogical approaches can release new potential in our students. Our partners were very different from us, but through our meetings and work shops we have become more aware of the pedagodical added value in arts and are in the future aiming at including artistic expressions and work methodology into our own teaching. Measures to include this apporach into our school has already been done, and this would not have been realized without the European Whispers project.

Our aim is therefore that the meetings and experiences made during these two years will be transmitted to new students and teachers through a shift in methodology in our daily work.