Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales
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- Armelle Blin-Rolland - Contributor
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Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland (Principal Investigator), Dr Jonathan Lewis (Co-Investigator)
In May 2024, Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland organised a one-week residence in Bangor with award-winning French graphic artist Anne Defreville, as part of the project Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales. Dr Blin-Rolland worked in partnership with GwE Global Futures for this project, which is funded by Bangor University’s Innovation and Impact Award Scheme. Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales aims to develop creative approaches to fostering environmental sustainability in conjunction with international language learning, in line with the holistic ethos of the New Curriculum for Wales, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act.
Across the residence, 68 primary and secondary school pupils from across North Wales took part in innovative workshops, during which they created their own ecological bandes dessinées (French-language comic strips) and a multilingual ‘natural mural’.
Feedback from pupils and teachers was very positive, with teachers praising notably the ways the activities covered ‘cross-curricular aspects of the new Curriculum for Wales really well’ and that pupils ‘get to see French used for a purpose, they also get to focus on issues that are essential to their future’; and pupils commenting that ‘I think it helped get a better understanding of climate change and should be offered to more students’ and ‘I believe that learning about the environment in other lessons, can help people to explore other aspects of the environment from different views’.
Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales is a follow-on project from Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland’s British Academy/Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Greening Modern Languages’ (SRG22\220097), which brings together an international network of scholars and educators working across language specialisms to reflect on the place of Modern Languages in collective action towards sustainability (https://www.ecomodlang.com/).
For more information please see https://www.ecomodlang.com/resources/cwricwlwm-ieithoedd-modern-gwyrddach-i-gymru-a-greener-modern-languages-curriculum-for-wales/
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland (Principal Investigator), Dr Jonathan Lewis (Co-Investigator)
In May 2024, Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland organised a one-week residence in Bangor with award-winning French graphic artist Anne Defreville, as part of the project Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales. Dr Blin-Rolland worked in partnership with GwE Global Futures for this project, which is funded by Bangor University’s Innovation and Impact Award Scheme. Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales aims to develop creative approaches to fostering environmental sustainability in conjunction with international language learning, in line with the holistic ethos of the New Curriculum for Wales, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act.
Across the residence, 68 primary and secondary school pupils from across North Wales took part in innovative workshops, during which they created their own ecological bandes dessinées (French-language comic strips) and a multilingual ‘natural mural’.
Feedback from pupils and teachers was very positive, with teachers praising notably the ways the activities covered ‘cross-curricular aspects of the new Curriculum for Wales really well’ and that pupils ‘get to see French used for a purpose, they also get to focus on issues that are essential to their future’; and pupils commenting that ‘I think it helped get a better understanding of climate change and should be offered to more students’ and ‘I believe that learning about the environment in other lessons, can help people to explore other aspects of the environment from different views’.
Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales is a follow-on project from Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland’s British Academy/Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Greening Modern Languages’ (SRG22\220097), which brings together an international network of scholars and educators working across language specialisms to reflect on the place of Modern Languages in collective action towards sustainability (https://www.ecomodlang.com/).
For more information please see https://www.ecomodlang.com/resources/cwricwlwm-ieithoedd-modern-gwyrddach-i-gymru-a-greener-modern-languages-curriculum-for-wales/
1 May 2024 → 3 May 2024