REMEDiATE (Re-Experiencing MathEmatics through DIgitAl sTorytElling) is an innovative, interdisciplinary research project that aims to support future primary school teachers to reconstruct their relationship with mathematics in depth. It focuses particularly on students of pedagogical faculties, who are called upon to teach mathematics, without necessarily having positive experience or self-perception as “mathematicians”.

Research has shown that many future teachers carry negative feelings or even traumatic experiences from their schooling in mathematics. This situation creates cognitive resistance and emotional barriers to their future teaching practice. REMEDiATE responds to this challenge, using digital storytelling as a medium:

  • understanding of personal learning experiences,
  • expressing emotions that are often left unsaid,
  • reflective connection to the subject matter,
  • developing a new pedagogical identity.

Digital Storytelling is used here not just as a storytelling tool, but as a pedagogical practice, where image, sound, speech and personal experiences combine to create a multimodal narrative – a means of transforming the relationship with mathematics.

Based on Joe Lambert ‘s methodology and the research tradition of the New Technologies Laboratory of the University of Athens, REMEDiATE is designed around five pillars:

  • Digital storytelling (individual and group)
  • Analysis of the emotional relationship with mathematics
  • Link to cognitive content of a mathematical nature
  • Individual and collective reflection
  • Sharing and creative presentation

Through the spiral structure of the programme, participants experience an evolutionary process, which starts from the understanding of the self, passes through the creative construction of digital narratives and leads to the formation of a new relationship with mathematical knowledge, with a focus on pedagogy rather than fear.

The REMEDiATE project is implemented in collaboration with four Universities (NKUA, University of the Aegean, University of Western Macedonia and Ioannina) and is part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU and implemented by EL.ID.E.K.