Teaching with Hans Christian Andersen*.

Abstract

The New Hans Christian Andersen House opened in June 2021. Being a very untraditional museum, it does not offer traditional learning tours. We do not only mediate about, but also as, Andersen. We use Andersen’s artistic and literary methods, as we translate them into mediation- and teaching methods. Making the museum’s teaching department “The Universe of Learning”, we have created a specific Andersenian teaching profile through a large amount of search and method development. This has resulted in learning tours that are playful, spontaneous, immersive, peculiar, and based on children’s own reflections and interpretations – just as it is the case in Andersen’s own fairytale world. Because they are the inheritors of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, we let children be cocreators of the meaning and importance of them.