The Nordic Lighthouse Project

09/12/2016

See professor Higgins presentation of the "Teaching and Learning Toolkit"

06/12/2016

Thank you for a great 3rd meeting in the Nordic Forum in Copenhagen. We are now halfway into the Nordic Lighthouse Project and it is time to focus on solutions for the identified common Nordic challenges with regard to the use, communication and sharing of best practice and research based knowledge by Nordic practitioners working within pre-school, primary and lower secondary education.

09/09/2016

Dialogic reading - It’s easy to get started.
A fun and impressive method to teach children language. They learn new words, they get a better receptive language ability, they train their memory and they feel like using the language.

In this video you can see how the day nursery Samuelsgården in Nørrebro uses dialogic reading.
You can read more about dialogic reading if you follow this link: http://www.emu.dk/modul/dialogisk-l%C3%A6sning-det-er-nemt-komme-i-gang

31/08/2016

As discussed by the members of the Nordic Forum on our meeting in Oslo in June we are now testing, how effective video is for communicating educational research knowledge to practitioners, and how we can use NSM for sharing such knowledge.

The members off the Nordic Forum are more than welcome to share the videos on their own websites and their NSM-channels.

Please give us feedback on the videos and your views on how to communicate research and if it would make sense to translate/subtitle these videos to the other Scandinavian languages.

These videos and the research behind have been made in a collaboration between practitioners and teachers.

In addition to the Lighthouse Projects FB and YouTube-channel, the videos are located on the ministries learning portal (http://www.emu.dk/modul/skrivedidaktik-p%C3%A5-mellemtrinnet-i-alle-fag as well as the EMU FB-site https://www.facebook.com/emu.dk/.

In the following months more videos will be uploaded.

18/07/2016

Hi folks!

We hope you are enjoying your summer. We are happy to announce the launch of a website for the Nordic Lighthouse Project: http://eng.uvm.dk/Education/Themes/Nordic-Lighthouse-Project

On the website, you can browse through the main documents of the project, watch videos or learn about the vision and work of the Nordic Forum.

We look forward to continuing the exciting work after our summer holidays.

The Nordic Lighthouse Project was launched in 2015 during the Danish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.

07/06/2016

After an inspiring day in Oslo for the 2nd Meeting in the Nordic Forum, we have put together a bunch of videos documenting the working groups, presentations and more. In this video, Bruce Shaw, director of the Leadership and Implementation branch in the Student Achivement Division of Ontario's Ministry of Education, presents his thoughts on using video to communicate research-based content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNsLszVaQA

Remember that you can watch the rest of our videos, including a longer presentation by Bruce, on our Youtube channel following this link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZcWdoktPZid4VjUHhtIh0Q

In this video, Bruce Shaw presents his thoughts on using video to share research and to what extent the video format can be useful to educational practitione...

20/05/2016

The tables, flags and agendas are ready for the 2nd meeting in the Nordic Forum today. We look forward to a great day of discussions, problem-solving and new ideas!

28/04/2016

In the Nordic Lighthouse Project, we are interested in ways to share research across the Nordic region and making it accesible for educational practitioners.

As a collaboration between EVA in Denmark, Skolverket in Sweden, and Utdanningsdirektoratet in Norway, the Nordic Base of Early Childhood Education and Care (NB-ECEC) is a great example of how we can share research across the Nordic countries. Therefore, we have invited Persille Schwartz, chief consultant in EVA, to the next meeting in the Nordic Forum to present EVA's experiences with creating and maintaining the NB-ECEC database as inspiration for the Forum's continued work.

We look forward to discussing the potentials and barriers for sharing research across the Nordic region. In the meantime, check out the database for Early Childhood Education and Care to learn more about some of the most recent international and Nordic research-projects in the field.



http://www.nb-ecec.org/skandinavisk-forskning-pa-dagtilbudsomradet-en?set_language=en

The Nordic Base of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC-NB) gathers new, quality-assured Scandinavian research on 0-6 year-old children in early childhood education and care. This database is for all who are interested in pedagogy and in the development of the daycare area, such as teachers, stu…

18/03/2016

We are happy to announce the time and place for our two upcoming meetings with the Nordic Forum, where we will continue the discussions from the meeting in November:

The spring meeting in the Nordic Forum will take place on the 20th of May 2016 in Oslo at the Holmen Kollen Park Hotel: http://www.holmenkollenparkhotel.no/.

The fall meeting in the Nordic Forum will take place on the 10th of November 2016 at The Danish School of Education, Campus Emdrup, just outside Copenhagen: http://edu.au.dk/en/.

We look forward to seeing members of the Nordic Forum for what will hopefully be two exciting and productive meetings.

18/03/2016

What is the Nordic Lighthouse Project?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm_T8szjUD4

The Lighthouse Project was initiated in 2015 under the Nordic Council of Ministers. In this video, you can learn more about the project and specifically abou...

17/03/2016

In the final key-challenges video, Anna Jändel-Holst from Lärarnas Riksförbund goes through some of the key challenges facing Sweden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qZ3oGNLQw

On the 25th of November 2015, 55 members of The Nordic Forum from all countries in the Nordic Region gathered in Copenhagen. The aim of the day was to discus...

17/03/2016

Watch Ola Berge from IKT-senteret in Norway explain some of the key challenges facing Norway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SN10r7HTQ

On the 25th of November 2015, 55 members of The Nordic Forum from all countries in the Nordic Region gathered in Copenhagen. The aim of the day was to discus...