Teachers Professional Development

Teachers Professional Development

Some time back, the artist Jorge Satorre had the chance to enter a fascinating space within a factory. Invited to develop a project there, after hours of exploration his attention was drawn to a place that the employees called ‘the darkroom’. For more than twenty years, this space had been used as a repository of moulds and tools that had been discarded or replaced by more precise, productive ones. It was a hidden museum of objects that are equal parts obsolete and valuable, an archive of the factory’s unofficial history.

Jorge’s project reminds us of those spaces in schools that store objects and tools that were used in the classrooms at some point but have now been replaced or thrown out: overhead projectors, technical drawing tools, art supplies, old computers and screens… all inventoried and stored, awaiting an uncertain fate.

What do these collections of discards tell us about the productivity of educational spaces? What stories do these hidden places harbouring what was once useful tell us?

This class began by inviting the artist Jorge Satorre to hold a performance and education workshop targeted at teachers, educators and artists interested in education. For one week, we’ll work together to tighten our bonds of collaboration and reflect together on the performativity of education, on what we keep, what we get rid of and what this says about us.

We suggest joining together in a process of inquiry and collective action. We’ll visit those strange spaces, inventory them, reclassify them and, by doing so, try to go further. The goal is not only to rediscover what has been forgotten but also to understand what all of this reveals about our own educational processes and how we value knowledge and creativity.

Dates
30 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER
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This class began by inviting the artist Jorge Satorre to hold a performance and education workshop targeted at teachers, educators and artists interested in education.

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PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION WORKSHOP WITH JORGE SATORRE
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Jorge Satorre
DARKROOM
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Picture: "Pelusa", Jorge Satorre.

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Duration
16:00- 19:00

We start this year with a series of encounters in which students of education at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) will be visiting the museum. Together with their teachers from the Department of Art, Plastic and Visual Education, and based on the experience of the group visits, we want to create a space in which the university can work with the museum. What can the museum’s education departments contribute to the training of teachers, and vice versa; what place do art and contemporary artistic practice have in their learning experience?

Project in collaboration with the Department of Artistic, Plastic and Visual Education of the UAM Faculty of Education.

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Together with their professors from the Department of Artistic, Plastic and Visual Education of the UAM and based on the experience of the group visits, we want to generate a working space between the university and the museum.

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Colaboracion UAM
COLLABORATION PROJECT WITH THE UAM
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We started this line of research last year, starting with the question: What do 0 to 6 year-old children like? In order to find answers, we visited crèches and nursery schools as an exercise in observation and took away a number of clues: 

  • The yoghurt lid. Remove it, ‘read’ it and put it away.
  • Stick the mandarin segment stickers in unusual patterns.
  • Feed other children
  • Mix colours. Paint over and over with a lot of tempera paint. Until the paper breaks.
  • Peel the stickers off the crayons.
  • Little things. A bit of fluff, a speck. A tiny sequin on the floor that hardly anyone sees.
  • Make a bracelet out of a slice of bread.
  • Shiny things. Sequins and iridescent fabric. *

With a notebook filled with new actions to put into practice, we continue into this year by giving shine to this research carried out by the education department at the CA2M Museum together with the EnterArte collective. For the coming months, we will be planning new actions, internal meetings and other open activities to think about how to make the museum a softer experience and prepare to open it up to the widest range of people.

*Notes taken by Goya Batalla, member of the EnterArte collective.

This activity belongs to the line Escuela desbordada / Talleres de educación (‘Overflowing School / Education Workshops’) held by the EnterArte collective, which is a part of Asociación Civil Acción Educativa.

Dates
THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR
Target audience
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With the notebook full of new actions to put into practice we continue this course giving brilli-brilli to this research that we carry out between the area of education of the CA2M Museum together with the EnterArte collective.

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RESEARCH PROJECT FOR CHILDREN AGED 0–6
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PROYECTO 0-6
PROJECT FOR 0–6 YEARS
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Picture: Patri Nieto.

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To take flight and hover about the school is the practice with which we begin this school year.

In order to take a breather and to get a bird’s-eye view of the year that is just beginning we have invited the artist Olga Diego to lead a performance workshop with one single objective: to defy gravity.

In this workshop we will imagine and build our own airborne device. Collectively we will undertake a prior study, make calculations, sketches, scale models, preliminary tests and then the launch. The forms and systems of this aerostat will be experimental, defined and created by participants under Olga Diego’s watchful eye.

Here, there is no such thing as failure because the workshop provides room for all possible ideas: flying, pre-flying, pro-flying, pro-failure, pre-fall, anti-flight, pre-disaster, and so on.

Each school year we organize a workshop for teachers with a performance artist, consisting of an intensive week-long project during which we create bonds of cooperation between the school and the museum as we explore issues concerning educational processes and the performativity of teaching.

In previous years we have had workshops with Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora García, Aimar Pérez Galí, Luz Broto, Aitana Cordero, Jiři Kovanda, Paz Rojo and Mónica Valenciano.

Dates
FROM 17 TO 21 OCTOBER
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Aforo: 15 personas

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At the beginning of the school year we held a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. It is a week of working with the body in which we join forces and reflect on educational processes and the performativity of education.

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PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION WORKSHOP
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practicas de vuelo
FLIGHT PRACTICE
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Duration
16:00 - 19:00H

Aimed at anyone interested in taking part

With The Last Letter is Q, Changing Name and Project Q, this year we continue our exploration of queer research and pedagogies, which we began some years ago now. Things have changed considerably since we first started out on this path with the Painting Your Nails workshop: the educational community, the social and cultural context, politics and social movements… This period of transformations has brought to the fore a series of new doubts and challenges when it comes to undertaking queer work within schools.

 

With Changing Name, this year we are continuing our work with high-school students on narratives of gender identity and the concept of normalcy from a feminist and queer perspective. The Last Letter is Q, a workshop for teachers, brings together various professionals who collectively imagined a queer school.
 

Finally, Project Q is an online reference space where we can find (and get lost in) materials and all kind of information about queerness. This space has been created with the idea of offering a living, provisional, unstable place.
 

In this open encounter we will share experiences with the intention of continuing collectively rethinking the potentialities of queer practice in its meeting with education.
 

To enrol and for more information contact educacion.ca2m@madrid.org / (+34) 912 760 227

 

Dates
Jueves 5 de julio
Topics
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With The Last Letter is Q, Changing Name and Project Q, this year we continue our exploration of queer research and pedagogies, which we began some years ago now. 

Subtitle
TEACHER TRAINING
Letra Q
Q ENCOUNTER 2018
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Duration
17:00 — 20:00

Es el segundo año que probamos el taller de formación del profesorado La última letra es Q. Hemos cambiado prácticas, formas de acercarnos desde el cuerpo a lo cuir, hemos cambiado nosotras y ha cambiado también un poquito el mundo. Y cada año tenemos más dudas. Quizás estas propuestas acaban por enrarecer todo tanto, que ya no hay certezas que valgan.

En este encuentro nos gustaría compartir preguntas que talleres como Hablar con otra voz nos lanzan, pero también esas experiencias diarias de los cuerpos en el aula, en el museo, en las calles...

Desde las voces y los cuerpos y las dudas que nos surgen, queremos proponeros un nuevo Encuentro Q donde seguir pensando cómo imaginar y construir proyectos educativos sin quedarnos en lo establecido, en lo estanco, arriesgándonos a perder el control de la normalidad.

Dates
Miércoles 26 de junio
Topics
Entrance

This is the second year we have organised The Last Letter is Q, an educational workshop for teachers. We have changed practices and ways of engaging with queerness.

Subtitle
QUEER PRACTICES AND ENDEAVOURS IN EDUCATION
Seminario Encuentro Q
Q ENCOUNTER.
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