​Commitment: 21st century skills

Zines, small handmade booklets, offer an emancipatory way to explore, critique and reflect upon a given topic. These artefacts position the learner as creator, and the evaluator as audience. Within the EU project SySTEM 2020, evaluating the informal science learning of young people across Europe, zine-making is used as a form of evaluative reflection.

In this session, we'll hear from researchers and practitioners who will share their experience of developing and using zines. We’ll discuss the history, theory and development of the methodology from a research perspective, the practicalities of transferring the research into practice, and how the process was iterated and adapted over time, including the shift to online. We’ll also present how zines were used with learners in migrant and refugee populations, followed by moderated discussion to draw out key learnings and recommendations for practice.

For those wishing to create their own zine, there will be a relaxed social session at the Not-so-Nocturne on 10 June at 17:15 CEST.