1.2 Description

The CEIP FRAY JUAN DE LA CRUZ of SEGOVIA has created the GALERÍA DE ARTE ANEJA in the central hall of the school. In it different local artists are exhibiting, for the moment, who get all the benefits of any conventional gallery: an exhibition space open to the public during school days, an exhibition catalogue and dissemination through social networks and media Segovia. In exchange, the artists experiment with the school students, developing a series of interactive workshops with different age groups, in which the students try to emulate their own creative processes using, first of all, pigments and primitive techniques, then other materials and techniques from all periods, and finally ending in the use of new technologies.

With the project we try, in principle, to BRING ART TO THE NEAREST ENVIRONMENT OF THE STUDENTS (the Museum comes to school and not the other way around); secondly, we try to GIVE MORE RELEVANCE TO ARTISTIC EDUCATION, devalued in the last curricular proposals of our laws and educational administrations; we also emphasize the POTENTIATION OF THE EXPERIMENTATION, OBSERVATION, ABSTRACTION AND CREATIVITY IN OUR STUDENTS, all of them ends and signs of identity of our educational project; in addition, WE CONVERT THE COLLEGE IN THE CENTRE OF CULTURAL IRRADIATION INSIDE THE DISTRICT, involving our closest surroundings, educational community, City council, artists, associations and mass media.

However, the ultimate goal we pursue is the SIGNIFICATION OF THE EXISTING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE, delving into how both complement and interconnect and concluding in the incomprehensible division of knowledge in primary school. Both ART and SCIENCE explore phenomena and lived experiences to try to understand reality and the potentialities that may exist under it. To do this, both apply intuition, discipline, logic and inspiration to understand what surrounds us. Artists and scientists use experimentation, observation, abstraction, analysis, discovery, creativity, as instruments and work procedures. The artist Luke Jerram, for example, stated: "scientists and artists begin to ask similar questions about the natural world, ending up with completely different answers" (Boustead, 2009).

Finally, we have to get students to PRODUCE SCIENCE through ART and create ART through SCIENCE, through all the processes of creation and experimentation of different materials and techniques up to the use of computers.

In the process we must be able to IMPLICATE THE INSTITUTIONS OF OUR ENVIRONMENT, TO THE DISTRICT AND TO ALL THE ANEJA EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY.

1.2.1. Creator of this activity.

The activity has been designed by the faculty of the CEIP FRAY JUAN DE LA CRUZ (ESCUELA ANEJA) of SEGOVIA, being at the head of the initiative JOSÉ MIGUEL ALONSO FUENTE ([email protected]), as TUTOR OF FIFTH PRIMARY COURSE and ICT COORDINATOR of this educational centre, which is located in the heart of the old town, next to the wall of the city of Segovia, in Taray street, nº 2, CP 40001 SEGOVIA. The centre has always been linked to the University of Valladolid, being its PUBLIC SCHOOL OF PRACTICE for many years, and always maintaining an interest in innovation and educational experimentation. The e-mail address of this public school, which belongs to the Junta de Castilla y León, is [email protected].

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