Cooperation with the educational track of the H.C. Andersen Foundation is meant to ensure synergy and impact.
Our ambition is to combine the values and methods of Hans Christian Andersen with Danish pedagogy and didactics in order to create an international learning concept that has imagination, play, social formation, and the perspective of the child as its focal point.
In June 2021, Learn for Life received a commitment of support for the project “Fairytales and Play Communities - inspiration from H.C. Andersen for kindergartens all over the World”, together with its two collaborators Lege- og Relationspraksis, and Teach&Learn with HCA.
The project is based on demand from the Chinese side for concrete inspiration material. Thus, in connection with the project, we have tentatively prepared a pedagogical project basis, by Gitte B. Bork, educator and MSc in pedagogy and two compendiums, which Mogens Godballe, former headmaster at Nordfyns Højskole, presented at an annual H. C. Andersen Symposium in Odense, and in 2020 Benedicte Riis' book "The Trick of Hans Christian Andersen" was published.
Cooperation with the educational track of the HCA Foundation
The H.C. Andersen Foundation works along three tracks: Tourism, Research, and Education.
In connection with the educational track, we have since 2019 cooperated in the development of an HCA learning concept.
The common goal is to find the answer to how we develop teaching with H.C. Andersen. A good place to start is China where the poet is well known and loved by many.
The H.C. Andersen Foundation has developed an HCA Education website, and they want to start various educational initiatives in China. In this context, the first steps have been taken toward new research- and culture-exchange-based teaching concepts.
At the yearly HCA-Symposion Mogens Godballe (right) presented his two compendiums. From left Jens Thodberg Bertelsen and Professor Emiritus Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen, SDU.