{"id":8294,"date":"2023-01-14T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/englishatnord\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:38:10","slug":"icepell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/englishatnord\/news-and-events\/icepell\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturebooks, intercultural learning and citizenship in primary English classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Once upon a time there was a not-so-perfect Norman<\/a><\/strong>, a lonely cloud called Cyril<\/a><\/strong>, Leonard, the gentle Lion<\/a><\/strong>, and many more picturebook voices, wanting to Say Something<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about a world that is different and diverse, cruel sometimes, yet colourful and intercultural, and always critically relevant for primary English language education.<\/p>

(click on the titles, in blue, for a pedagogical surprise!)<\/em><\/p>

ICEPELL<\/a><\/strong> (Intercultural Citizenship Education through Picturebooks in Early English Language Learning), an Erasmus+ project, amplified these voices. It brought them into schools, gave them a home in English classrooms, where they went from illustrated pages via teachers\u2019 learning to children\u2019s hearts. As teachers, student teachers and teacher librarians in the project learnt to engage with the raw material of these picturebooks, they moulded ideas, activities and questions that tackle the challenges of the world today and connected local and global experiences. Through teacher learning and active engagement with the materials we hope these voices will continue echoing through classrooms across the world.<\/p>

The ICEPELL project team consisted of picturebook lovers with a strong belief in the power of intercultural learning and citizenship education from five different countries, working at the following institutions, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Portugesa de Professores de Ingl\u00eas (Portugal), Nord University (Norway), Avans University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands), Technische Universit\u00e4t Braunschweig (Germany), USR Piemonte Sustainable Network (Italy). Working across geographical and educational contexts and learning to understand and respect the specificities of primary education in each country was an intercultural experience in itself for the project team. Discovering we were Same, Same, but Different<\/a><\/strong>, we worked through our differences and celebrated our similarities as we imagined the core materials that would eventually become the final outputs.<\/p>

These final outputs consist of the following elements:<\/p>