Projects and International Collaboration
The Unit delivers research, educational and arts-education projects with partners from the United Kingdom, Poland and other European countries. It combines academic research with educational practice to create resources, events and solutions that respond to the needs of contemporary Polish supplementary education.
CAPHE
Within this project, the Unit develops approaches combining art, narrative, storytelling, digital tools and immersive environments. It creates educational spaces in which participants learn through experience, collaboration and creative engagement with culture.
OPERA VR
The Unit uses immersive experiences, art and digital narrative in music and cultural education. The project demonstrates how VR and other technologies can increase learner engagement, develop imagination and introduce children and young people to opera and ballet.
UCML grant –
creative writing online
Dr Dorota Hrycak-Krzyzanowska received a UCML grant for Developing (Creative) Writing Skills in Teaching Polish as an Inherited/Second Language at B1-B2 Level in Online Learning. The project focuses on active methods for developing writing, including creative writing, in online education.
Its outcomes include lesson plans, a set of exercises supporting written production and a concept for an educational game developing creative writing in Polish.
NAVA Projects
the Unit delivered activities within two NAWA projects coordinated at PUNO by Dr Dorota Hrycak-Krzyzanowska.
Language, Identity, Culture
Delivered with the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, focused on promoting Polish language and culture and preparing materials for learners and teachers in the Polish diaspora in the United Kingdom. Its outcome was the textbook Language, Identity, Culture: Among Polish Diaspora Youth in the United Kingdom with a teacher guide.
Polish Level Up
The Polish Level Up project supported the development of linguistic, cultural and examination-related competences among Polish diaspora youth. It produced the textbook Language, Identity, Culture: Polish Level Up and the teacher guide 200 Ways to Prepare Students Effectively for A-level Polish.
The Unit also organises the academic and educational conference Digital Heritage, Hybrid Learners and AI: 3D Technologies, Immersive Arts and New Literacies in Education with Lublin University of Technology and the University of Reading, in collaboration with Opera VR and FABULA. The conference provides a space for research presentations, the exchange of good practice and collaboration in hybrid education, media competence and the use of AI in humanities education.