Project: BAGSKOL – Teaching controversial issues

The BAGSKOL project (Erasmus+ KA2) aims to understand culturally complex teaching in schools. This innovative concept corresponds to a range of complex subjects and situations that are generally dealt with from one or some cultural view.s. That can make it difficult to address the core questions in the teaching knowledge. For teachers, culturally complex teaching appears as uncomfortable to deal with, uneasy to anticipate. Ideally, this would necessitate a high level of self-reflexion from the teachers. Additionally, it appears difficult, at first, to de-centre these questions from their national context, even if they address global and interconnected questions: teaching institutions produce norms and practices in line with legal requirements and national curricula. Thus, it is a challenge in teacher training to propose procedures dealing with these questions.

International and intercultural cooperation is a means to develop a holistic and comprehensive understanding of these teaching questions and their context. This allows the clarification of the multi-faceted aspects of these questions and potentially more fruitful teaching. BAGSKOL gathers the teams of six university and will follow the collaborative creation of courses, teaching and analysis by international pools of students. The project will provide, in association with different partners, resources, guidance and training toward change. It aims to make a significant contribution to the understanding of the complexity and cultural dimension of the teaching in the classroom.

The project is part of the research in the Linnaeus Knowledge Environment: Education in change