One of the main objectives of Zoom Out projects is the active participation and involvement of teachers and students in the elaboration of educational resources and develop citizenship competences.
The Vic University (UVic) team has been conducting teacher’s workshops consisting of exploring what equality and equity mean and paying attention to how structural dynamics provide a specific context where not every student holds the same starting point.
These workshops are particularly important for Zoom Out project because they involve primary school teachers, the front line workers of education.
The main result of the teacher’s workshops will be the elaboration of the Zoom Out Handbook: Conceptual Approaches to Read European Children’s Literature from an Intersectional Perspective.
Zoom Out project challenges meritocracy as a paradigm by pointing at how specific situations within the classroom affect in different and multiple ways students and their learning processes and access to learning, each of them living with their own socio-cultural and economic circumstances.
These workshops have also proved useful in mapping specific necessities within the local schools that are part of the project, such as La Sínia School, in Vic, and Joan Miró School, in Barcelona.
We have covered and discussed interesting books to tackle inequalities within the classroom in the workshops addressed to a wide range of children ages as well, from racial discrimination to gender equality.
