3.1.3 Methodological Material_Chapter 5 "Educational Artmaking In Partners Countries: Good Practices In Community Settings"
22. Detailed description of selected activities
ACTIVITY 1: CLASSIC IS FANTASTIC!
Title | Classic is fantastic! (Clasic e fantastic) |
Country | Romania |
Promoter | National projects |
Context of implementation | X large city ☐small city ☐village |
Goals of the activity | The main objectives of the event are to instill the love of music in young people, make classical music accessible and educate young people in the spirit of harmony and understanding among people. |
Description | Content The programme focuses on concerts and encourages the audience’s interactive participation. A national broadcasting of the programme was planned to make it accessible to a larger number of students, which the pandemic has accelerated. The event has been transferred online. Its live performances organised by George Enescu Filarmonica institute addressed young people in Bucharest when it started in 2012. The programme focuses on live concerts where the audience benefit from concrete explanations and are encouraged to participate (by asking questions or answering the moderator’s questions, demonstrating their feelings through drawings, miming or dancing while listening to music). The main objectives of the event are to instill the love of music in young people, make classical music accessible and educate young people in the spirit of harmony and understanding among people. The pandemic accelerated the plans to make the materials created accessible to a larger number of students all over the country and the event has been transferred online. Theories - Music is a means to educate and sensitise young people. The main idea of this project is that music strengthens concentration, memory, joy for life, tolerance, wellbeing and motivation to be a better person. It stimulates linguistic, musical, logical visual and interpersonal intelligences. |
Implementation choices | a. Target groups - young people, adolescent, and teachers, 210 participants b. Duration - 7 days c. Number of sessions/activities - 7 sessions d. Teaching methodology - interactive participation, music, theatre e. Type of assessment and tools used to identify the benefits - The event has its own website comprising recordings of interviews (about music and life experience) with famous musicians and writers, a virtual library presenting famous musicians and composers’ lives, participants’ testimonials and students’ drawings and paintings based on the concerts they attended. Its live performances organised by George Enescu Filarmonique Institute address young people in Bucharest. The pandemic accelerated the plans to make the materials created accessible to a larger number of students all over the country and the event has been transferred online. |
Artistic mean | analysis of famous artistic expressions artmaking activity ☐ Painting A ☐ B ☐ ☐ Theatre play A ☐ B ☐ X Music A X B ☐ ☐ Sculpture A ☐ B ☐ ☐ Creative Writing (storytelling, poetry, etc.) A ☐ B ☐ ☐ Arts and crafts (pottering, needlework, sewing, etc.) ☐ Other, please, specify: __________________ |
Materials | Live concerts Virtual library (links to recordings of concerts, musicians’ life stories, recordings of interviews about music with famous musicians and writers, opera scripts, links to video clips on YouTube). |
Who runs the activity | Organization / institution. |
Benefits and results | The concerts are of high quality and the explanations accompanying each piece of music are useful, give student’s insights into the musical world and bring classical music closer to students. Teachers can use the site, its recordings and articles in their classes to create a nice atmosphere and stimulate students’ wellbeing, to encourage students to listen to quality concerts, analyse famous artistic expressions, or understand the context when they were created. |
Challenge to inclusion addressed | Social challenge. |
How did it address that challenge? | The materials can be used in classes to promote students’ wellbeing through the implementation of arts. The materials foster collaboration between art specialists (musicians) and teachers. The role of music in our life: music strengthens concentration, memory, joy for life, tolerance, wellbeing and motivation to be a better person. It stimulates linguistic, musical, logical visual and interpersonal intelligences. |
21st Century skills addressed | Creativity and Innovation Teamwork Global and cultural awareness Interpersonal relationship skills |
UDL as Guiding principle | The activity includes multiple ways to express and support student understanding |
Website/E-mail /Other contact info: | Filarmonica George Enescu. (May, 5). Clasic e fantastic. https://www.clasicefantastic.ro/ https://www.facebook.com/clasicefantastic/ Filarmonica George Enescu. (May, 5). Clasic e fantastic. ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH7X-X4enyZtZKv_wheIqtw |
Questions for reflection: | Questions that can be asked to stimulate target groups’ feedback and reflection What does music mean to students? Have you talked about this with your students? (How does music make them feel? What piece of music has influenced them? How?) Do they like listening to classical concerts? Have they been exposed to classical music? Do you use music in your classes with students? How? Has music helped students? How? Have you noticed any changes in your students’ behaviour, motivation, and understanding? |
ACTIVITY 2: ALECART AND FILIT
Title | Alecart and FILIT (children’s section) |
Country | Romania |
Promoter | National projects |
Context of implementation | X large city ☐small city ☐village |
Goals of the activity | The magazine educates and helps young people to find their own voice in society and fully contribute to its development. The FILIT event aims at promoting young talents and their literary works as well as developing young people’s creative and critical thinking skills and instilling the love of books and reading in young participants. |
Description | Alecart is a project/ a trend initiated by a cultural group of young people and their teachers of literature from several high schools in Iasi, Romania, with a rich experience and activity. Access to the activities of the group is free. The trend educates and helps young people to find their own voice in society and fully contribute to its development. Their magazine has published young people’s opinions on a wide range of topics (inclusion, diversity, life, communism, achievements, happiness vs unhappiness, wellbeing) and their literary works since 2008. The magazine has acquired a national character in time and addresses all students in Romania. The group is a partner in the FILIT cultural event, which initiated a special section addressing children/students beginning with 2019 where Alecart has a substantial contribution each year. The FILIT event aims at promoting young talents and their literary works as well as developing young people’s creative and critical thinking skills and instilling the love of books and reading in young participants. Students are given the opportunity to meet writers and poets and also to read their own works. Alecart is a project initiated in 2008 by a cultural group of young people (12-19-year-olds) and their teachers from several high schools in Iasi, Romania. Thanks to its success and popularity Alecart has become a national project in time. Access to all the activities of the group is free. The project is particularly appealing to young people first because it encourages them to find their own voice in society and fully contribute to its development. Secondly, teachers are perceived as partners (and facilitators) in the project, which empowers students to actively initiate and successfully carry out all plans. Alecart has become a model of education which addresses not only students’ academic performance but also their emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual development. It aims to fulfil students’ potential to participate, achieve, and enjoy what they do. It has become a place where students find their own way to express themselves (poems, blogs, reviews, short stories, drawings etc) and where each student’s contribution is valued. It helps students increase their self-esteem, confidence and wellbeing and develop a deep love of lifelong learning across socio-cultural and educational contexts. Alecart encourages students to explore not only literary texts but also contemporary social issues (inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism). Alercart sessions have provided students with lessons about inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism. The Alecart agenda covers a wide range of activities, whose success is based on commonly agreed-upon action plans: analysis of contemporary artistic achievements, creative writing (short stories and poems), community/ charitable work (i.e. sessions of storytelling or reading aloud for younger children/ children with special needs), blogs on main events (meetings with writers and poets etc), books, literary reviews of books and films or meetings with national and international writers. Students initiate, negotiate and debate all their activities. |
Implementation choices | a. Target groups - young people b. Duration - 5 days c. Number of sessions/activities -7 d. Teaching methodology - analysis of contemporary artistic achievements, creative writing (short stories and poems), community/ charitable work (i.e., sessions of storytelling or reading aloud for younger children/ children with special needs), blogs on main events (meetings with writers and poets etc) or books, literary reviews of books and films e. Type of assessment and tools used to identify the benefits: - In pandemic times the festival was put on hold. |
Artistic mean | analysis of famous artistic expressions artmaking activity X Painting A ☐ B X ☐ Theatre play A ☐ B ☐ ☐ Music A ☐ B ☐ ☐ Sculpture A ☐ B ☐ X Creative Writing (storytelling, poetry, etc.) A X B X ☐ Arts and crafts (pottering, needlework, sewing, etc.) X Other, please, specify: meetings with writers and poets |
Materials | Description of events, blogs, poems, short stories, drawings |
Who runs the activity | Organization / institution. |
Benefits and results | The magazine articles and short stories and poems are of high quality; they set an example to follow for students. The materials published on the site promote students’ wellbeing, encourage young people’s initiatives and engender trust in education and its values. By enabling students to initiate, negotiate and debate all their activities the project also increases students’ communication skills. |
Challenge to inclusion addressed | Social challenge. |
How did it address that challenge? | The materials promote students’ wellbeing through the implementation of arts; students’ short stories and poems are published in an online magazine which has a large number of readers. The materials created within the project promote students’ wellbeing. The Alecart activities foster creativity, culture and multicultural dialogue; they also stimulate linguistic, visual and interpersonal intelligences. |
21st Century skills addressed |
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UDL as Guiding principle | The activity includes multiple means of representing the concepts and new ideas. |
Website/E-mail /Other contact info: | Alecart. (May, 5). Alecart. https://alecart.ro/despre/ |
Questions for reflection: | Questions that can be asked to stimulate target groups’ feedback and reflection Why do you think Alecart model has become a success? How do you think these students have found their voice in society? How would you apply the model to your class? |