Multiliteracies in a Swedish Poetry and Music Project : A!ordances and challenges in a diverse society

• This paper draws on a poetry and music project initiated by a producer at the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. The project has been running for a year and has been carried out in cooperation with teachers and students from three public schools. The focus in this paper will be on the participating children in Grades 1 and 2 from one school, who have been encouraged and supported to write poetry in their classrooms. In January 2020, the children performed settings of their poems in collaboration with children from other schools as well as musicians from the Symphony Orchestra. We as researchers have followed this project from the start, and will present preliminary results in this paper. The aim is to investigate what it has meant for the participating teachers and their students to be involved in the project, and to find out about the multiliteracies that were used and performed during the processes in the classrooms and in the final performance. We ask:In what ways and through what kind of multiliteracies, including various modalities and languages, did the children express themselves?Which affordances and/or challenges emerged in relation to the teachers’ and the children’s perspectives, and why?

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

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