Presentation in conference "Informal Approach to Formal Education: a Teacher as an Object and a Subject of Museum Education" at Moscow on October 25-27th 2018

1. HOW TO MAKE RELEVANT
ENCOUNTERS AND MEET
AUDIENCES WITHIN THE
CHANGING SCHOOL WORLD?
Sanna Valoranta-Saltikoff
M.Soc.Sci, BA
Educator
Espoo City Museum

2. EDUCAT
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3. EDUCATO
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4. ESPOO: Networked City Structure

5. ESPOO CITY MUSEUM
Five museums – countless meaningful encounters
FINLAN
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RUSSIA
ESPOO

6. • The new curriculum in Finnish basic
education and in early childhood
education calls on teachers to use
museums as a learning environment
Espoo City Museum 2017
SCHOOL CHILDREN
ARE FUTURE MUSEUM
CUSTOMERS

7. SCHOOLS AND
MUSEUMS IN
FINLAND
SCHOOLS
• Over 3200 comprehensive schools in
Finland
• All Finnish schools follows a national core
curriculum, which includes the objectives
and core contents of different subjects
• Comprehensive school and the basic
education is non-selective, free and
equal
• Basic education starts at age 7 and
encompasses 9 years
• Education and schools are under Finnish
National Agency for Education
(EDUFI), which is a national development
agency. EDUFI is subordinate to the
Ministry of Education and Culture and its
tasks and organisation are set in the
legislation.
MUSEUMS
• Over 300 professionally maintained museum sites,
as well as several hundred non-professional
museums
• 55% Finnish museums have free entrance for
children under 18 years
• An average of 12% of all museum visitors are
school children in Finnish museums
• The Finnish Museums Association is the central
organisation for museums in Finland. Its tasks
include looking after museums´ interests and
advancing museums´ activities.
• The Finnish Heritage Agency is a national
institute for protecting environments with cultural
history value, archaeological culture heritage and
architectural heritage. It also supports and
develops the museum field nationally. Operates
under the Ministry of Education and Culture.

8. NEW NATIONAL CORE
CURRICULUM IN
BASIC EDUCATION
• The key goals of the new
curriculum
→ Pupil participation
→ Increasing the
meaningfulness of learning
→ Enable every pupil to feel
successful
• The new core curriculum
places an emphasis on
transversal competences in
instruction
• An Example from Espoo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=TZwxyUf8a78 KNOWLEDGE | SKILLS | VALUES | ATTITUDES | WILL
Picture: Finnish National Agency for Education
TRANSVERSAL
COMPETENCES

9. HOW TO MAKE RELEVANT ENCOUNTERS AND
MEET AUDIENCES WITHIN THE CHANGING
SCHOOL WORLD?
1) Free museum visits for groups from day
care centres and schools
2) Educational programmes in museums
and local cultural education plan
3) Taking part and promoting national and
local projects aiming to increase pupil
participation and accessibility to culture
services
4) Educational afternoons for teachers
5) Service development together with
teachers and children and piloting new
services with school groups
6) Marketing and communications for
teachers

10. EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMMES
IN ESPOO CITY MUSEUM
• We create special educational concepts
for schools during every annual season
and every changing exhibition at the
Museum
• The educational programme is based on
the Finnish basic education curriculum
• Our program is part of the local cultural
education plan
• Our principles in school services:
→ ’Ask, touch and try’
→ Hands-on
→ Use of appropriate methods: drama,
gamification etc.

11. NATIONAL PROJECTS
Photo: National Museum of Finland

12. • Project coordinated by Association of
Cultural Heritage Education in Finland
and Finnish Museum Association
• School pupils, together with
museums, produce content related to
cultural heritage using a mobile
application.
• Aims of the project:
→ To support children in participating in
cultural heritage
→ To create new kinds of collaboration
with schools and museums
→ To promote the role of museums as a
learning environment
NATIONAL PROJECT CASE:
MOBILE GUIDES TO
THE CULTURAL HERITAGE

13. LOCAL PROJECT CASE:
CULTURAL AND SPORTS PATH
“KULPS!” IN ESPOO
• KULPS! is an educational tool for Espoo schools
used to promote cooperation between the schools
and cultural and sports institutions
• The KULPS! content is a free part of the education
program for basic education school groups
• Different content for different school grades:
museum visits, workshops, theater plays, concert
visits. Content is planned according to the
curriculum.
• Espoo City Museum and Espoo City Library are the
biggest service providers in the KULPS organization
• See more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yA2qVdKW4
s

14. EDUCATION FOR
TEACHERS
• Comprehensive school teachers in
Finland must take part in at least 3
educational workshops every
school year
• Espoo City Museum is one of the
educational workshop providers in
Espoo
• Our purpose is:
→ To provide inspiration for schools
→ Familiarise teachers with the
museum
→ Encourage them to use the
museum services

15. SERVICE
DEVELOPMENT
AND PILOTING
• We are never ‘ready’
• Schools are changing, teaching is
changing, the whole world is
changing
• How to offer better services to
schools and day care groups?
• How can we know what they
need? → Customer-oriented
service planning
• Piloting – a way to create
something totally new!

16. PILOT CASE: PROJECT
ESPOO IN THE CIVIL
WAR
Project aims:
→ collect and research material about civil
war time in Espoo
→ make a temporary exhibition and
publish a book
→ involve audience and make the history
matter
• One part of the project was
collaboration with upper secondary
schools
• The Espoo City Museum’s youth
collaboration in the project Espoo in
the Civil War is the winner of the 2018
Annual Award in Museum pedagogy

17. WHEN THE HISTORY
MATTERS
“This project was cool because for once
I got to go much deeper into the history
and really explore. History classes are
usually just about dates and important
events but in the workshop I had a chance
to experience the history, the life.”

18. MARKETING AND
COMMUNICATIONS
FOR TEACHERS
• Working togehter with
teachers
• Newsletters for teachers
• Taking part in fairs and other
events for teachers
• Sending the educational
programme brochure to
schools at the beginning of
the school year
• Cultural education web pages
– all information on same
pages

19. CHALLENGES
AND
DEVELOPMENT
NEEDS
COLLABORATION
WITH TEACHERS
LONGTERM
COLLABORATION
VS. PROJECTS
UNEQUAL
POSSIBILITIES
RESOURCES
AND MONEY

20. HOW WE
SUCCEED IN
RELEVANT
ENCOUNTERS
WITHIN THE
CHANGING
SCHOOL
WORLD?
COLLABORATION
WITH TEACHERS
AND EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTES
ACCEPT THAT
YOU ARE NOT
READY
SUBMIT
RESPONSIBILITY
TO CHILDREN
ASK MORE
THAN GIVE
ANSWERS
TEAMWORK
DARE TO
FAIL

21. 12/4/2018 21
СПАСИБО!
KIITOS!
THANK YOU!
sanna.valoranta-
saltikoff@espoo.fi
www.espoonkaupunginmuseo
.fi