Research project What do the school walls say – linguistic and visual messages
In the citizen science project “What do the school walls say” teachers and students will help scholars to investigate how the school system’s democratic mission is reflected in the signs, notes and messages on classroom walls, in corridors and other public spaces of schools.
The school environment is studied with a linguistic landscape/schoolscapes approach and a focus on these research questions:
- How do the meanings on the school walls interact with the Swedish school system’s fundamental values and policies?
- Which roles are constructed by the signs and messages, and which resources – languages, images, video etc. – are used?