Europe between mythology, modernity and multiculturalism
lunedì 17 febbraio 2014
The Cours
Programme EFTLV Comenius Grundtvig
Europe
between mythology, modernity and multiculturalism
“Above all, distrust your imagination and your memory. Imagination
misrepresents, both it embellishes and qualifies you. Ungrateful memory doesn’t
remember anything, unfaithful memory mutilates everything. We forget everything
unwritten and we run in vain after what is written with negligence.” Denis
Diderot
Preparation
Organizers will provide a very detailed program and
every useful information about the preparation of the course, his development,
his documentation and report.
Objectives
This course is addressed to all those
teachers, educators, trainers who want to bring their professionalism up to
date, acquiring an effective method of education, by a week of study and experimentation,
known as research-action-formation, added to the tradition of the myths of
Europe, to let this continent be proposed as advantaged place for cultural
exchanges.
Lots of figures, artists, lettered, left
in every part of Europe traces of their genius, their sensibility and their
spirit, to describe the myth of Europe, feminine figure from which the West
lands took their name and reminds us that people have always transmigrate and
those migrations took important cultural and social innovations. The physical
journey will become the occasion for the intellectual one, in art and history,
to tell with images and scripts an extraordinary “transversal” experience in
important places for the European culture. The very importance is the soul of the place, the genius loci, and the very ancient link between humanity, place of origin
and shelter, between time and history, traditions and memory, categories that
the virtual reality is slowly crumbling. The aim is to re-link the
communication between subject and his context of space and time in all the
relations this two points have, to revitalize the relations between territories
and their people (residents, tourists, occasional visitants, immigrants).
Participants, trough the didactic program and
interpersonal contacts, might deepen this following aspects:
-
European cultural roots;
- Richness of the cultural and natural heritage;
- Difference of the European cultural traditions
This route will have concrete tools for
the formation able to link themes and different knowledgs in an interdisciplinary
and transversal project compared to the cultural and environmental European
heritage and it will lead to a new ways of didactic experimentation to bring to
schools and structures concerning the permanent education. It will also promote
the ability to know how to structure an interdisciplinary project on culture
and landscape of your own country, with the aim to finally have a European
network of places in history and memory to keep lively all those meanings to have
a creative and deep relationship with the contemporary world.
Methodology
The myth of Europe, feminine figure from
which the West lands took their name, reminds us that people have always
transmigrate and that those migrations took important cultural and social
innovations.
The course will have theoretical meetings,
visits, seminaries and practical activities concerning the theme of the
“European cultural identity ”, a long tradition concept, that invites and
facilitates the “discover” of the beauty through the intercultural, spatial and
chronological differences. Activities will go around the history of art, to the
history of the traditions and mythology. This method will lead to a realization
of a formative path overall thanks to the participants that will finally
appreciate the didactic value of a new learning method, deeply transversal in
his approach, that mainly leads to a new point of view, focusing on the
cultural interaction, and also trains to the documentary production and
artistic sensibility, to promote the creation of strong links between people, cultures
and territory.
This brings to teachers a fundamental
learning tool, and sensitize the knowledge about the cultural-environmental
heritage, stimulating the development of the partnership projects to protect
the European cultures and his histories.
Follow-up
Interns after the course may spread their
now new method, contributing, so, to this network project to popularize and
protect the great European cultural heritage (mythological, iconographic,
artistic, literary, historical, scientific), to, then, supplement to the daily
educational activities.
The success of the common willing is the one, step by step, face the artistic and cultural topics, counting on the plurality of the voices, and long perspectives to finally have the perfect frame of the new reality in which we live and try to understand with his deep roots, or the evolution, connection, or differences that depend on our life quality in relationships.
The success of the common willing is the one, step by step, face the artistic and cultural topics, counting on the plurality of the voices, and long perspectives to finally have the perfect frame of the new reality in which we live and try to understand with his deep roots, or the evolution, connection, or differences that depend on our life quality in relationships.
The course follow-up will offer:
- Use and create innovative training
instruments (e-book, multimedia products, videos)
- Interact with the represented institutions, through a specific web portal.
- Exchange opinions, good work practices and sharing the project results, everything possible with the creation of a special section in the website www.laboratoriodelcittadino.org that will collect every work realized during and after the course, accompanied with educational boards, technical texts and tutorials.
- Meet in a virtual place with the aim to develop new European projects as: Comenius, Grundtvig, Leonardo and Study Visit.
- Interact with the represented institutions, through a specific web portal.
- Exchange opinions, good work practices and sharing the project results, everything possible with the creation of a special section in the website www.laboratoriodelcittadino.org that will collect every work realized during and after the course, accompanied with educational boards, technical texts and tutorials.
- Meet in a virtual place with the aim to develop new European projects as: Comenius, Grundtvig, Leonardo and Study Visit.
Some
reflections to work together
Our journey to discovering the European
myths is not just about a “mythical” journey, but talking about people, populations,
countries, languages and the own country. We have to create, all together, a
new approach to knowledge in a process that goes from the simple to the
complex, from known to unknown, in a way to focus on the complexity of the
world in all his forms. A new point of view is fundamental. Travelling is like
a filter, and this is his pedagogical capacity.
The ethic of the vagrant that knows how to
look to the landscape offers us a precious model of learning, because teaches
to be open and to avoid the monotony of the repetition. The years we are living
gave us the view of the lost of the domaine in a territory and accentuated the
migratory process that will confuse our conceptual borders. Customs will
contaminate promoting an ethic without barriers; the vagrant one, the one with
the experience, looking for what Kant called “the starry sky”. The ethic of the
vagrant doesn’t know any map, he just faces the path he is in, and the
difficulties he has step by step. This is the limit we have to think with wisdom.
This landscape we see is already our unstable, provisory and unconscious
shelter.
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