Health, including mental health, is a cross-disciplinary topic in Nordic school curricula, and the mental health of children and youth is a top priority in the Nordic countries following the increase in mental health problems among young generations.
This requires that teachers in all subjects are capable of meeting and reflecting on health-related questions. Our main goal is to develop new methods and learning designs relevant for teaching practice at secondary and upper secondary levels.
Engaging Comics Through Interdisciplinary Approaches
Some of the most engaging and provocative Nordic texts about mental health today come in the form of comics. We investigate how such comics can be used in strengthening teacher education program’s ability to offer relevant and high-quality literature education.
We aim at innovation through an interdisciplinary approach to mental health and combine theoretical insights from four fields of research that have not been put into dialogue before: comics studies, literature education, affect studies, and graphic medicine.
NordComEdu
This project originates from the network Nordic Comics in Education (NordComEdu).
NordComEdu comprises scholars and pedagogues from leading institutions for teacher education in Norway, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands:
- University of South-Eastern Norway (USN)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- University of Gothenburg (UGOT)
- University of the Faroe Islands (SETUR)
This project is the first time that scholars of pedagogy, literature didactics and literary studies from USN, NTNU, UGOT and SETUR have initiated a collaboration to address common Nordic challenges.
