About Iwona Kurz

Iwona Kurz works at IKP.

Curriculum in culture animation

 

 

Finally the book presenting curriculum of postgraduate studies for high school teachers of study of culture and for practitioners is ready.

The project of an newly-formulated program of postgraduate studies for teachers is associated with the idea of postgraduate studies for practitioners of culture. Of course, the specific goals for these two kinds of participant – teachers and culture animators – will differ somewhat. Teachers will still be taught to teach cultural science in the course of their studies whereas for culture animators, activity is their profession and their priority . The program’s aim is to ‘animate animators’, provide them with anthropologically grounded animation skills, update their knowledge, encourage them to go beyond the institutionally consolidated image of the world, in which culture happens in a local council cultural centre, most likely on a stage. Despite these differences in specific goals, however, we assume the program will remain an integrated whole. After all, teachers play a role as a practitioners of activity in the culture and culture animators are also teachers.

Book includes  curriculum itself, commentary to it and detailed programmes of classes and workshops. Its available in Polish. We attach also introduction to the book (curriculum and commentary) and the programme of media workshop in English.

Curriculum in Polish                  

Introduction in English

Media workshop in English

 

the background of ANIMATOR

ANIMATOR project is born out of our previous project ANIMUS that included 9 partners from 5 European countries. The idea was to create a network of cooperation and exchange – both in education and in practice – in cultural animation. Together we made several projects in which we all learnt a lot – and we prepared some publications to show the results to others. They may be found at ANIMUS website.