Some time ago we commented in Peques and Más that La Caixa was betting on a new project for the development of scientific workshops in schools through the program eduCaixa. This is a program in which more than one million students from all over Spain have participated and which consists in the realization of activities focused on culture, science and social matters.
eduCaixa encompasses the entire educational offer of the La Caixa Social Work with the will to bet on a quality education based on social reflection and values, and with the purpose that teachers can also complement their classes. For this and as you can see in the video below, they offer the educational community a wide range of online resources, face-to-face activities and projects, aimed at teachers, students from 3 to 18 years old and associations of mothers and fathers.
One of eduCaixa's most attractive programs is The art of educating so that we can enjoy art that also helps us to get to know each other better and to understand the world around us.
The art of educating aims to help develop in the student the ability to observe, understand and enjoy art collections. Thus, for example, there is a complete agenda planned to visit the Prado Museum in Madrid.
In these workshops, kids enhance the development of thinking skills based on visual culture. Teachers can also apply their knowledge and use the tools at their disposal to enrich their daily work in the classroom.
In the case of the Prado Museum, the objective is to enhance visits with four tours of the Prado Museum collections led by an educator. They are itineraries based on observation, dialogue and the use of teaching materials to enhance reflection and allow work:
- Body visions. The representation of the body and the change of the idea of beauty over time
- The objects speak. The symbolic role of everyday objects and their documentary value in an era
- Scenarios. The space in the painting: the ideological, social, cultural and aesthetic factors of the representation of space on a plane
- Imagine the divinity. The representation of the divinity through each artistic period
I believe that these initiatives led by the social work of La Caixa have great goals and objectives and I am convinced that children like to know the Museums, share teaching experiences and reinforce knowledge in the classroom with the directions of the teacher and the enormous material school that is made available to students. In eduCaixa there is a lot of information to learn more about the project and especially to choose cultural and leisure destinations to share as a family throughout Spain.
