Discoveries

A friend finished a work about the “cooperative learning in Secondary School”. Thank you for letting me reading and congratulations!                                                                        

 We have already given the paper work about the summer practice in the Casal d’Estiu (summer camp with children), and with it, we close the curiosity “What similitude there are between leisure education and formal education”. You can read the paper in Catalan (or ask for the translation at gcolelsa7@alumnes.ub.edu) but the answer will be: both of them have as an aim, to educate, but the formal education also has to teach and this is why it is more formal and rigorous. 

This does not mean that the leisure education has not importance, instead, what formal education cannot do it is covered by the leisure one. And for that reason, I think both are complementary one to each other, and both treat the education in a global way.

                                                                                                     

About SPECIAL SCHOOLS I already have more information about one of them: it is the Waldord School from Vallgorguina which is conducting the Waldorf Pedagogy. You can read the summery in Catalan or ask for the translation at gcolelsa7@alumnes.ub.edu. I will be doing more research about it soon.

                                                                                                

 From the curiosity of: “Free schools, how are they? This is not exactly what I wanted to research about this schools because I would like to make it more exhaustive and try to understand different ways understanding learning and teaching of different schools. But here there is a beginning! It is about Summerhill. The paperwork that I made is written in Catalan but you may wish to really read it so I can translated for you, just ask for it ar gcolelsa7@alumnes.ub.edu). Otherwise you can watch the movie here (vimeo).

                                                                                                                                                                 

From the curiosity of: Being afraid of failing

I haven’t done either, a proper research but Neill talks about it just saying that the child is not afraid of failing when the he is completely free!

                                                                                                                                                               

From the curiosity of: What is dyslexia?

I read different books and I summarized a very good one. I also had the chance to teach a dislectic girl and this has been a very fun and interesting experience.

The paper is written in Catalan but if you wish more information about it you may write to me at gcolelsa7.alumnes@ub.edu

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
From the curiosity of: "What is the importance of emotional education at school?"


This is a project we did for a subject, and a very good excuse to investigate about the issue. We thought that emotions happen all the time with no exception and for this, the emotional education should be permanently. But we realised that if you never plan how to work them systematicaly you never take enough attention.

The paper is written in Catalan but if you wish more information about it you may write to me at gcolelsa7@alumnes.ub.edu
                                                                                                                                                              

From the curiosity of: How relevant is to play for a child? 

"The child lives within the game a very uncommon experience: to face up the complexity of the world on his own. He finds out he is alone, and with his curiosity, with all he knows, eveything he doesn't know, what he wants to know in front of a bid unknown world full of things to discover. (...) All of this, with a completely freedom because what he doesn't know, he can invent it. (...) No adult would never imagine all the things a child can learn while he is playing." 
FROM: Tonucci, Francesco. La ciutat dels infants. Editorial Barcanova. Barcelona: 1997. (Pàg. 40)

Contents: 
1. The significance of the game during childhood.
2. The function of the game.
3. Conditions for the game.
4. The adult's role.
5. Different types of games: The heuristic game

The paper is written in Catalan but if you wish more information about it you may write to me at gcolelsa7.alumnes@ub.edu
                                                                                                                                                             
From the curiosity: 
"What is the good of the technology (TIC) at school?"
I always thought that there where more negative aspects than positive from introducing technology at school. It was from a subject about it that I took the chance to do some research and see whether I was right or not. It is not that my conclusions are really great because possibly I'm lack of experience to see the real application on schools but you may want to know what I got for the moment in the paper that I worte. 

The paper is written in Catalan but if you wish more information about it you may write to me at
gcolelsa7.alumnes@ub.edu

                                                                                                             SONGS FOR THE KINDERGARDEN 

(Download the cover here)

1 - Estrella de la Fortuna
2- La mà (recitatiu)
3 - L’oreneta i l’escarabat
4- La Margarideta
5 - Cançó de bres per a una princesa negra
6 - Ball manetes
7 - Plim, plim, plim
8 - Noninò
9 - Cançó de fil i cotó
10 - Oh, mare, mareta
11 - La coqueta amb sucre
12 - La Marieta del Jardí
13 - Cara d’estel