jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2017

Project English

“ ASGRATARIS MODELISMO SOLIDARIO”

English learning: hobby modeling as an educational tool.

Summary

Educational hobby modeling workshop taught in English, where children will learn how to paint with a brush and acrylic colors. They will learn also how to paint with naturals and hand made tools. The workshop will be guided by a social educator and a professional painter and sculptor, plus three children directly from India, where Asgrataris realized a similar project during the three months of staying in “Friendsfoundation" orphanage.

Besides the practical workshops, we need to collect materials. To collect them we will walk from the park “Bola de Oro” to the village “Cenes de la Vega” ( through the Genil river ) where we are going to take gravel, sand, wood, dry leaves and other materials offer by nature while we are having a conversation in english about the importance of recycling, cleaning of woods and environment respect.

An ideal course in which they will learn another language and they will create relationships between new cultures while we enjoy art and nature.
Check out:     http://asgrataris.com/es/


Introduction

Course designed for children with an age between 9-12 years.

What push us to select the hobby modeling as an educative tools and this particular workshop was in mainly the success it has got in Narapally ( India). Under poor economic conditions, in an orphanage where we met our “young teachers” who will come to support us in our workshops in Granada. 

Prashant, Granmachan and Atari were the most interested students during our hobby modeling workshops between other  60 more children. Those young promises of hobby modeling, learned how to make good pieces with recycled materials collected on the path from their orphanage to workshops place.

The objective of this project is the social inclusion of other cultures, an “horizontal learning” between young girls and boys from different cultures, ages and countries. Using a common language (English). Passing down our experiences and knowledge while we are learning a new tongue. Throughout hobby modeling, used as a means to educate, “ Asgrataris modelismo solidario”, showed that is possible to join a vocation with an hobby, respecting the environment, enjoying art and sharing time with friends.

We want to introduce this project in Spain cause we think that is an important educative opportunity for the personal growth of our children. In the same workshop they have the chance to learn a language, sharing an orphanage live experience ( told by the Indian children), know better our city walking through its nature sides. They will be discussing about the importance of the respect of the environment, learn how to paint and how to sculpt in order to make their own scenography in which they can play with figures made also by themselves. They will wake up that artistic part which give us a critical  and respectful conscience.

Check out Asgrataris videos about the Indian project (http://asgrataris.com/es/la-serie/ )


Diagnostic and reality analysis:

We want to analyze the two realities cultures: the western one as long as the oriental one, which characteristics are mainly opposed.

From one side we have an “Europe” full of informations which at the end what it’s doing is “misinforming” the population.

We got too much access to the information, that we are touching the limit between “ what is really happening” and “ what I want to listen and see cause it’s supporting my ideas and ideology”.
This way to inform is extending an Indian and European prototype. On one side we have a continent ( India ), mostly poor , which thinks that we are reach. On the other side western people, who thinks that they are really poor.

From this born the idea to realize an intercultural connection between this two worlds, where we realize that be poor is not a lack of economics resources ( but rather a lack of moral and respect). And be reach is not owning a lot ( but rather supply primary needs and affective long-lasting relationships).

“Asgrataris, modelismo solidario” in its project in India doesn't carried out a common project, in which the association give its help and at the end everyone come back at their normal life.
But we create an important impact in this little community, in which we transmit the importance of self-knowledge and empowerment as a way to grow up our own personality. And way not, an economic way to survive: we achieve to go all together to the cinema thanks to the money we receive selling the children pieces. They learned how to make their own paints, brushes, putty and toys with the few they had.

Above all, thanks to their will and passion for the learning of an hobby and a art which they can still cultivate by their own.

Considering all, analyzing our experience in India, in a socio-critical way, and after listening the children wishes we drop up the idea to bring them to Granada, in order the let them learn more about something in what they express a deep interest. Moreover through their learning they can teach in their turn their experience and their knowledge about hobby modeling.

Speaking about the experience in our own country: we realize that we can find many different english language workshops, other about art and more about hobby modeling, in which each one approach its subject individually. We firmly think that the best way to understand it, it’s to combine different subjects in an educational way, using an alternative pedagogy, in which, sharing experiences with other children, they will acquire the knowledge in a better way.

Analyzing  another side of our society, we complaint that it is so full of theory that is not waking up a critical conscience in our children. We learn from our books and a big part of our knowledge is for “ conviction” an not through experience (vary less). Several studies and different new and olds pedagogies are constantly claim the necessity to choose a new educational way. This give a better teaching about leaving and not a preparation for a working world and life.

We all see positive, at the same way, that our young girls and boys live such experience together with children from India, in which different perspective and versions about the idea of living will meet in a way to reach a deep knowledge  about both cultures. Using for all that a common language and hobby modeling as a link and tool.


Where and when the project will take place?

(Wednesday 1 of November), we will go for a walk through the Genil river, from “Bola de oro” park till the village “Cenes de la Vega” where we will collect all the materials we need. Being the first day of project it will have a special timetable: we will spend three ours collecting recycled and natural materials, needed for the rest of the project.
To conclude, we are going to prepare a competition in “Cenes de la Vega” in PIDE association location. Address:
Carretera de la Sierra 49, Escuelas viejas,
18190 cenes de la Vega, Granada.

Starting from day 1 the rest of the workshop will take place at the following address:
Local “War Lotus” num1
c/Dr. Juan Sanchez Cozar
18003
Granada.


Objectives planning:

Specific objectives:

-Learn English
-Learn hobby modeling in all its aspects (paintings, sculptures and scenography)
-Build a discussing space supported by art as an educational tool
-Create awareness about the respect of the environment
-Learn how to face and solve problems using logic
-Wake up and push the imagination and creativity
-Transmit the love for art and culture
-Understand the importance of culture and education

General objectives:

-Observe the cultural impact between Spanish and Indian children
-Empowerment as a base of the human being evolution
-Be on the side of the development of artistic skills


Application-execution

The workshops will take place in different sessions during one month.

During this time, girls and boys will reunite to learn what learn from the Indian children in the last project of “Asgrataris modelismo solidario”, moreover during this time they will be followed by professional teachers learning new techniques.

During the stay of the Indian children in Spain, they will also receive privates classes: a way to have more things to share with the Spanish children joining the workshop. This will happen face-to-face and through Skype when it will be needed.


The knowledge they will acquire is not limited at the social and linguistic environment. The main essence of hobby modeling involve a wide knowledge over different issues, from vegetation, climate, geography till complex things as engineering, psychology or biology. Those big knowledges, sometimes simple, sometimes abstracts,  are suitable for being taught through hobby modeling and art in a different way that from the books.

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