The UJI is developing a citizen science project on language interaction for teaching purposes
Around thirty teachers are co-leading an educational analysis workshop alongside researchers from the UJI as part of the project “Y tú, como lo ves?” (“And you, how do you see it?”)
image: Early childhood and primary school teachers have become the protagonists of a research process during the Summer School of the Pedagogical Renewal Movement of Castelló. Through the workshop “Y tú, como lo ves?” (“And you, how do you see it?”), promoted by the Universitat Jaume I, they have worked side by side with researchers Anna Marzà, Verónica Moreno, Paloma Palau, Paola Ruiz and Gloria Torralba to reflect collaboratively on current teaching practices and analyse how multiliteracy is worked on, i.e. the combination of verbal, visual, digital and audiovisual languages that are increasingly coexisting in classrooms. The main objective of the workshop is to create a space for debate and co-creation around the various ways in which multiliteracy manifests itself in educational contexts. This concept, which is present in classrooms through multilingualism and multimodal texts, is key to understanding contemporary teaching practices, but it has yet to be explored in depth in research.
Credit: Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (Spain).
Early childhood and primary school teachers have become the protagonists of a research process during the Summer School of the Pedagogical Renewal Movement of Castelló. Through the workshop “Y tú, como lo ves?” (“And you, how do you see it?”), promoted by the Universitat Jaume I, they have worked side by side with researchers Anna Marzà, Verónica Moreno, Paloma Palau, Paola Ruiz and Gloria Torralba to reflect collaboratively on current teaching practices and analyse how multiliteracy is worked on, i.e. the combination of verbal, visual, digital and audiovisual languages that are increasingly coexisting in classrooms.
The main objective of the workshop is to create a space for debate and co-creation around the various ways in which multiliteracy manifests itself in educational contexts. This concept, which is present in classrooms through multilingualism and multimodal texts, is key to understanding contemporary teaching practices, but it has yet to be explored in depth in research.
For this reason, the sessions have sought to actively involve teachers in all phases of the process, co-directing the analysis of their own experiences with the research team. This workshop represents the first phase of data analysis for the COM (Teaching Conceptions around Multiliteracies) project, an initiative that studies how teaching teams understand and work with contemporary forms of reading, writing and communication in schools.
The project promotes a participatory research approach in which citizens (in this case, teachers) participate in both the generation of data and its interpretation. This open and collaborative approach is part of citizen science, a practice that connects scientific knowledge with social needs and promotes more inclusive and transformative decision-making.
The project, led by researcher Anna Marzà, has been selected in the first call for grants for citizen science projects at the Universitat Jaume I, within Action 6.4 of the Plan for the Promotion of Research and Knowledge Transfer for 2024. This grant supports initiatives led by UJI research groups with growth potential and external projection, while also placing the University among the first institutions to commit to incorporating a specific line of funding for participatory research with social impact.
With this commitment, the Universitat Jaume I reaffirms its commitment to citizen science and to a more open, collaborative and connected way of conducting research that is in tune with the needs of society.