POR Tiscar Lara 29/03/09 // Español
Oscar Martínez closed the cycle of presentations of the Symposium by representing Transit as the most expanded and hybrid profile of the ones seen here during these days. In his speech, Oscar has presented three projects, very different among then, but they all sharing the following views of Transit concerning Expanded Education:
a) E-learning Vs Belearning / Lucrative Culture Vs Free Culture / Generation Vs Generaction / Curriculum Vs Expansion
b) Metodology: Discovering + Experiment + Sharing
c) The teacher becomes "artist" of serendipity and takes advantage of what is going on to add it to the process
POR Tiscar Lara 29/03/09 // Español
If it seems to be a challenge to work across the curriculum from art or build an Open-Roulotte for intervention in space, now is Amasté who dares working directly with teens, perhaps the age group most complex but probably the most exciting as well. Airoa and Txelu have brought to the Symposium his experience working with youth in the Basque Country in mediation, participation and socio-cultural action processes.
POR Tiscar Lara 29/03/09 // Español
Transversalia deals with one of the hardest things in education: the effort to adapt situations, issues and discussions of life, that is sometimes left out of school, to embedded them in the curriculum with topics such as health, consumption, environment, sexuality, democracy, etc.. But the originality of his proposal remains in using the contemporary art as the way to discuss them. This is because Transversalia understand arts education as an interdisciplinary knowledge and critical understanding of contemporary society.
POR Tiscar Lara 29/03/09 // Español
Ronaldo Lemos has a foot in the Academy as a professor of law in Brazil and the other in Activism, as the director of Creative Commons in the same country. It gives him a double profile of particular interest because he combines the reflection on intellectual property, from the in-depth study of matter, with the action to modify and adapt it to new forms of social construction.