Connected: let’s creat a project

Esther Fuertes and Dolors Juárez What is Connectades. Fem un projecte (Connected. Let’s creat a project)? Connectades. Fem un projecte is a new forum for experimentation in education, in the search for a sustainable model of collaboration between schools and the Museum. Rethinking the lessons that we learned with the Tàndem schools project with the…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Let’s explore the past, talking about the present: Educational programme 2021-2022

Esther Fuertes and Sandra Figueras We are launching an educational programme! The slogan and image that form the heading of this text define very well the spirit at the heart of the new educational programme for schools. On the one hand, an identifying feature of our collection, the possibility of immersing ourselves in the past…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) a necessary educational methodology

la metodologia VTS

Esther Fuertes In times of confinement and social distancing we give even more value to methodologies such as Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) that have helped make museums a place to dialogue, to share emotions, and to be with others. The VTS are part of the mediation actions with our visitors carried out by the museum’s…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Working for change: the laboratory of education

Esther Fuertes Let’s talk about learning «The museum of the 21st century is not a temple, it’s not a school, it’s not media.  It’s a public sphere for life-long learning.» Michele Antoine, director of exhibitions of the Universcience France, began a talk in this way and presented the museum as a privileged place to nurture…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Three years of Tàndem: the school and the museum, partners in education

Tàndem: art i museu

Esther Fuertes The year that has just ended marks the milestone of three years of intense collaboration between the museum and the Miquel Bleach School in the framework of the Escoles Tàndem (Tandem Schools) programme. During this time we have worked for art and heritage to become important in the teachers’ training and in the…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Educating Through the Arts. The Challenge of the Tandem Between the Escola Miquel Bleach and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Sometimes challenges and opportunities are two sides of the same coin. While as educators we are witnesses of the will to erase the arts from the official educational curriculum by some leading sectors, there appear some projects that go against the tide like this one of Tàndem Schools.The aim is to promote successful education by…

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Author: Esther Fuertes