Adelita Cartonera held in Guadalajara
Monday, July 21st, 2008 (All day) - Saturday, July 26th, 2008 (All day)
The promotion of reading is one of the cultural activities supported by the University of Guadalajara in collaboration with the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University.
As part of this initiative, a workshop was held in Guadalajara from July 21-26, 2008, at the University of Guadalajara's Department of Art, with the aim of enabling teachers and artists to teach the skills of critical and creative reading through different types of artistic expression. This program, called Adelita Cartonera, is one component of the larger Cultural Agents Initiative.
This successful literacy program, which has already been implemented in countries such as Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru and Colombia, is intended for the young and not so young and consists of having fun with literature while developing attention spans as well as creative and interpretive abilities. Students take a literary work (short novel or story) and re-create it in different ways: they reinterpret it, they design it, they draw it or they interpret it musically.
The strategy behind Adelita Cartonera is to create a pedagogical framework which treats literature as a recyclable subject. It is premised on the conviction that playing is the best way to teach and learn.
The course was run from July 21-26, 2008, at the University of Guadalajara's Art Department. It was the first course of its kind to be run in the city, and its participants included high school and university teachers as well as students and artists.
Further information:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cultagen/programs.htm?paper
As part of this initiative, a workshop was held in Guadalajara from July 21-26, 2008, at the University of Guadalajara's Department of Art, with the aim of enabling teachers and artists to teach the skills of critical and creative reading through different types of artistic expression. This program, called Adelita Cartonera, is one component of the larger Cultural Agents Initiative.
This successful literacy program, which has already been implemented in countries such as Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru and Colombia, is intended for the young and not so young and consists of having fun with literature while developing attention spans as well as creative and interpretive abilities. Students take a literary work (short novel or story) and re-create it in different ways: they reinterpret it, they design it, they draw it or they interpret it musically.
The strategy behind Adelita Cartonera is to create a pedagogical framework which treats literature as a recyclable subject. It is premised on the conviction that playing is the best way to teach and learn.
The course was run from July 21-26, 2008, at the University of Guadalajara's Art Department. It was the first course of its kind to be run in the city, and its participants included high school and university teachers as well as students and artists.
Further information:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cultagen/programs.htm?paper