{"id":2708,"date":"2019-05-28T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preblogs.deusto.es\/aprender-ensenar\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:18:02","slug":"an-unforgettable-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.deusto.es\/aprender-ensenar\/an-unforgettable-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"3,8,28: AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The 3rd of March<\/strong><\/span> several people met for the first time in Copenhage<\/span>n<\/span><\/strong><\/span>. Suitcases and large rucksacks were invading the pavement while completely unknown people exchanged their first words. Latvia, Estonia, Holland, Germany, Italy, England and of course, Denmark were the different backgrounds my colleagues Eider, Ariane and I just started getting more familiar with. \u00ab8 different languages, diverse cultures and unpredictable ways of thinking<\/strong><\/span>\u00bb is what I thought at the very beginning. At that moment, I could not imagine how many things in common the 28 of us<\/strong><\/span> had, what a fantastic trip<\/span> we were about to live.<\/p>\n

We all were enrolled on an Erasmus+ Programme called \u00abEuropean Education – Utopia or Reality\u00bb<\/strong><\/span>. For a whole week, teachers and students who feel passionate about education took part on a training course in which we had the chance to focus on comparative education and learning approaches in both, a national and a European perspective. Not only we gained knowledge about different national educational systems, but we also had the opportunity to visit various educational settings in Denmark developing alternative pedagogies<\/strong>.<\/span> We celebrated our cultures’ similarities and differences, and we made a product<\/em> with all we had gained on an ending Conference at the Danish School of Education.\"\"<\/p>\n

Tim and Simon, the leading trainers at this course, did a brilliant work planning challenging, dynamic, and flexible activities for all the participant’s profiles<\/strong><\/span>. All those dynamics occurred one and a half hours from the capital, in a small town situated in the south of the island Zealand<\/span>; definitely, a calmed and inspiring learning environment to develop all our dreams into achievable plans. First of all, we started building the main principles that were going to guide participants’ cooperative work: disrupting, challenging status Quo, having enough freedom to stimulate ownership, respecting perspective differences, empowering diversity, enjoying the process and unlearning what we had learnt<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We redefined teachers’ role in society, reflected about didactics, planning and knowledge about the leadership of the learning sessions regarding contact and contract. <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I remember being challenged on team-work by playing with Lego<\/strong><\/span>. I must confess I found that activity merely brilliant. We were told we were going to be assessed on our cooperative abilities<\/span> on exceeding different tests. More poorly or successfully, we went through the experiment. Finally, we made a word-cafe to evaluate the activity, how we felt and whether we were successful or not. What a surprise when trainers said they were not going to \u00abgive us the results\u00bb. We all felt bewildered about it, we made such a significant effort and finally, and we did not have external feedback. Maybe that was the critical point: we had already assessed it ourselves, and that was the most significant contribution to our learning experience.<\/p>\n

After building team-work and learning different strategies and methods<\/span>, we got prepared for our workshops at the \u00abDreams of European Education Conference\u00bb<\/strong>. Depending on our foremost concerns, we created different settings and experiences to explain to the public what we had learnt about the next topics:<\/p>\n