This evening we had another meeting regarding the CSU/ Nord EC collaboration. The great news is that the Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two universities.
We have three streams of interest relating to early childhood and discussed collapsing the final two groups:
- Children voices - Coordinator - Elisabeth Bjørnestad (Nord)
- Online learning for ECE ITE and MEd - Coordinators-Leanne Gibbs (CSU) and Martin Per Samuelsson (Nord)
- Quality assurance, regulation and qualifications - Coordinator-Kelly Tribolet (CSU)
The breakout group for the Children's Voices group were invited to share the work they are doing. Professor Karl Victor Magne Johansson described their children's voices research undertaken with five different early childhood centres listening to stories children are telling in different settings in order to create drafts for picture books. The picture books are translated into the Sami language. The images for the picture books have been drawn or photographed by the children or have used the children's words to create AI images. What a fascinating project.
