Active Art: Understanding and Enjoying Art in the Classroom and Beyond - Barcelona

The course was about "Active Art: Understanding and Enjoying Art in the Classroom and Beyond" We try to learn how to • Make use of art and psychology of art theory and practice in a productive way; • Understand and consider different ways of interpreting and teaching creatively; • Actively maintain students’ attention and motivation throughout a creative class and learning process; • Improve creative attitude and stimulate lateral thinking through group and individual exercises. I would like to be the course, more interactive. We have to do individual practical activities, but we never talk enough about them. Τhere was no coherence and connection between the theory taught and the practice or the feedback in every action.

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The course takes a multidisciplinary approach to art and art psychology. It is based on a broad understanding of art and creativity across the lifespan and will draw on work in several disciplinary areas such as neuropsychology, pedagogy, and sociology, to consider creativity at different ages and in different contexts and specifically to consider the artistic phenomenon as a combination of perspectives and situations (artist, viewer, artwork). The course provides us tools to combine theory and practice, as well as ways to actively maintain students’ attention and motivation throughout the creative class and process. In addition, we be familiarized with museum education by visiting an art exhibition and learning in an active way how to use art in the educational process In my opinion, the course provider must improve the interaction between members and teamwork attempting to reinforce partners to gain new knowledge, opinions, and ideas from each other.

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The course was very interesting as a topic. I would have preferred though, a different structure. I would prefer more theoritical background combined with group discussion. The instuctor presented us some feedback, but we had no interaction with each other to deepen in the meaning of each topic. It was nice that we practical workshops, according to the theory presented, but then again we had no sort of interaction between the participants to explain why we did this or that or the symbolism of our products or their meaning. The sub-topics covered from the Course were very interesting and innovative. I also liked the visiting of the museum and the activities we did there. The instructor was very kind and eager to answer questions or solve any problems. The main problem was that we didn't have the chance to interact with the partners of other countries and the course provider did not organise anything of that kind (e.g. a meeting in a restaurant prior to the start of the lessons or a place where we could all interact, exchange ideas and meet new people). The people of the office of Europass were also very kind and welcoming. All in all, we had a great time in Barcelona, but the presmises of the course provider were not so spacious, so as to have space for a coffee during our break.The course could have been designed more carefully and could have been better organised.

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I heard, I learned and I saw interesting things, that I can apply in the classroom.

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