Resilient Experiences and Agency of Youth and Children During the Pandemic: Re-visioning Education Through Storytelling

The REAP project focuses on enhancing the psychosocial well-being of Northern children and youth affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will develop a COVID-19 recovery curriculum centred on students' voices and agency, employing digital storytelling in conjunction with virtual and augmented teaching pedagogies. The multidisciplinary project team is conducting research aimed at supporting the resilience, recovery, and renewal of Northern education systems by digitally recording and communicating the experiences of Northern students during times of crisis, in diverse cultural contexts and across various pasts, presents and futures.
The project is comprised of three case study research sites, covering Canada, the UK, and Finland, and is supported by funding from the Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).

REAP-hankkeessa tarkastellaan lasten ja nuorten psykososiaalista hyvinvointia COVID-19 pandemian jälkeen. Hankkeessa syvennytään pandemiasta toipumiseen kehittämällä oppilaskeskeistä pedagogiikkaan hyödyntävää digitaalista tarinankerrontaa pohjoisessa ja arktisessa kontekstissa. Mukana on Suomen osahankkeen lisäksi toimijoita Kanadasta ja Iso-Britanniasta. Hankkeen rahoittajana toimii kanadalainen NFRF -rahoitusinstrumentti (englanniksi: the Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)). Suomen osahanke toimii yhteistyössä saamen kielen etäopetuksen kanssa.