Post on 22-Dec-2015
Tales for the Way / Los Cuentos del Camino
Educathyssen
Javier Arnaldo Alcubilla · Ana Moreno Rebordinos
• To enable a wider diversity of audiences to participate in the programme • To ensure that no one feels excluded as a potential visitor of the Thyssen-
Bornemisza Museum• To improve and consolidate existing lines of work • To publicise the museum to professionals at occupational centres, labour
integration centres, etc., as a potential resource for their daily work• To create opportunities for integrating with other audiences in normal
situations• To develop a set of educational and pedagogic materials in collaboration
with the professionals who work with these collectives, with applications for all types of audiences.
Our objectives
a. Intellectual functional diversity 1. AFANDEM - Disabled and a woman
• This collective has been awarded a European grant from the Youth in Action programme for its My dream, a right project. We designed materials and activities for them.
2. Barajas Occupational Centre - Leisure and free time3. Fray Bernardino Occupational Centre 4. Canillejas-AFANIAS Special Education Centre - Body and emotions5. Las Rosas Special Education Centre for Adults 6. Juan de Austria Occupational Centre7. Colmenar de Oreja Home and Occupational Centre8. Pozuelo Afanias Experimental Occupational Centre -Naturaleza9. Juan XXIII Foundation10. Santa Teresa Occupational Centre11. Niño Jesus del Remedio12. Rudolf Steiner Association13. DIFFERENT BUT EQUAL programme (4 educational units) (ARGADINI Association and Juan
XXIII Centre)14. Pablo Picasso Special Education Centre (People with General Developmental Disorders) -
Pilot experience for general developmental disorders15. (Visit for work placement corporate partners) - Masterpieces
Functional diversity
b. Mental illness
• Torrejón Labour Integration Centre– Visible and invisible
• Guadalajara Intermediate-Term Unit
• Latina Psycho-Social Integration Centre
• Latina Labour Integration Centre
Functional diversity
c. Physical and organic functional diversity
• AFASIA Association – Pilot experience for
asphasia
• LESCER Foundation – Pilot experience for
acquired brain injury
Functional diversity
1. PUEBLOS UNIDOS Association, immigrant population
• Children - Pilot primary co-education experience• Young people - Pilot secondary co-education experience• Women - Pilot experience for Maghreb women
2. Luis Vives Shelter for the Homeless (funded by the Regional Government of Madrid) – neighbourhood associations
3. Móstoles Drug Addiction Treatment Centre
4. Committee for research into violence against women (women and children)
5. Navalcarnero Prison-4, integration programme for the prison population with mental illness:
• Experimental programme in line with the Latina Labour Integration Centre
Population at risk of social exclusion
• To teach participants to look at an artwork and decipher the information it contains
• To develop a sensitivity to art and culture• To develop critical and deductive thinking by formulating a series of
questions that the pupil has to answer about the work • To promote dialogue between the participants and respect for the
opinions of others • To use art as a tool for understanding other cultures and their ways of
viewing the world• To highlight the difference between what the artist wishes to represent
and how he chooses to do this• To create channels of collaboration and dialogue between the museum
and schools• To generate bridges to ensure that schoolchildren have equal
opportunities and rights based on their particular needs.
The aims of these programmes
• Touching with your eyes, looking with your hands.
• Can you feel the beat?
• Dreams and paradises.
• Leisure and free time.
For a broader cognitive level