2nd FORTHEM Annual Conference - Connecting Worlds of Science and Society"

A Co-creative Citizen Science Project on Linguistic Wellbeing at the Mankola school in 2024

31 Jan 2025, 13:30

30m

ONLINE

Oral presentation Enhancing multilingualism and learning in schools and universities Enhancing multilingualism and learning in schools and universities

Speakers

Dr Mari Honko (University of Jyväskylä)Dr Maria Kautonen (University of Jyväskylä) Petteri Laihonen (University of Jyväskylä)

Description

We explore lessons learned from implementing a Co-Creative Citizen Science (CCS) project on multilingualism within the FORTHEM European University Alliance Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab in 2024 autumn in Jyväskylä (see [1] for developments in 2020–2023 in Jyväskylä and Opole). Since 2020, teenage pupils at Mankola School have co-created CCS projects at the Mankola school. As lead researchers, we share our experiences in designing and managing this fifth cycle of the CCS project in Jyväskylä. Examples of project outcomes related to the theme of Linguistic Wellbeing will be presented by Mankola pupils. In addition to previous accounts (see [1]), we include reflections from the University of Jyväskylä undergraduate students of the Language Aware Multilingual Pedagogy (LAMP) study program for pre-service language teachers, who facilitated the pupils’ work. We ask: What were the key benefits and challenges of this student engagement in 2024, from the students’ perspective?
Acknowledgements. The project has received funding through the University of Jyväskylä from the FORTHEM European University Alliance.
References: [1] Laihonen, P., Deutschmann, M. & Molek-Kozakowska, K. 2025. Enabling engagement and activism through Co-creative Citizen Science. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Online early.