{"id":28955,"date":"2021-09-02T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=28955"},"modified":"2021-09-02T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:26:34","slug":"lets-explore-the-past-talking-about-the-present-educational-programme-2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/lets-explore-the-past-talking-about-the-present-educational-programme-2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s explore the past, talking about the present: Educational programme 2021-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Esther Fuertes and Sandra Figueras<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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A group of children experiencing the indoor installation Aeronautics Interior [<\/a>F<\/a>light]<\/a><\/em> by Francesc Torres in the Oval Hall of the museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are launching an educational programme!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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 and reviewing what we have been as individuals and as a society throughout 1000 years of history. On the other hand, the inevitable contemporaneity of our gaze, we look at the past from who we are today<\/strong>. The problems of our time cross us all, our proposal is that art can be a good way to explore them and with the museum as a welcoming space to open up a dialogue and generate conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) session with students and families from the Institut Escola Arts<\/em> in the rooms of the Modern Art collection<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Because one of the most important effects of the pandemic has been to show suddenly what is really important and urgent. In the case of museums, it has made us rethink what our raison d’\u00eatre is and how we can be more useful to society as a whole and especially to the educational community. From this desire arose the consultation we made at the beginning of last year and which gave us some clues about the needs of schools. In this new programme we have carried out the exercise of trying to respond to some of the concerns that were expressed to us and to establish new links between the school world and the museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have inspired us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>All the educators <\/strong>both at school and in the museums who have put their lifelong learning ability at the service of education. Facing the day to day work with courage, responsibility and creativity despite the difficulties. An intensive course of resilience in which we are all growing as people and as professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The teaching staff from the Escola M Jacint Verdaguer<\/em> during a drawing session in the rooms of the Romanesque art collection and a session with the teachers of the summer course “Art and Commitment”<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

The thinker and essayist Marina Garc\u00e8s<\/strong> defines emancipatory education as \u201cone whose horizon is to make it possible for everyone to be able to think for themselves, with others, the problems of their own time<\/em>.\u201d<\/em> (Escola d\u2019Aprenents<\/em>, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her reflection has made us wonder what we can do to make the museum an “emancipatory” educational agent.  How can it be implemented in the new educational programme? Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n