Collective residencies / Olot
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION II
From Monday, 18 February 2019 to Monday, 18 March 2019
Rethinking school
After the success of the stay of “Pedagogical Innovation I, Rethinking the school” of 2018, we organize another period at Faber, from February 20 to March 20, 2019. This period is dedicated to pedagogy, new trends of the 21st century and to rethinking what the school of the future should be like.
The school is an institution where current issues are permanently present. It is one of the foundations of our society and it occupies a significant part of our time, our lives and, also, our thinking. Debates about education are always alive and complex. They happen in real time and show the controversy of different pedagogical trends.
What new school models can we propose? How should we think about the concepts of equity, social justice and equal opportunities when we organize the system of education? Space and time, how should we use them and how should we live through them at school? Can we describe new grammars of education? Can we describe new forms of assessment? How do we build up the curriculum? What kind of relation should we establish with new technology? What part should gender roles play in the educational system? Can we prepare the school for a globalized world? Also, of course, we are going to ask ourselves how the school should be related to other educational, social and cultural institutions. These questions and many other related ones (project work, textbooks, structure and type of classes or school days) are some of the lines of work that we are going to follow at Faber during this period.
That’s why we are looking for residents to apply for scholarships offered by Faber. All kinds of professionals who work in educational field or who have reflected on the school, its problems and opportunities are welcome to apply, as well as researchers, pedagogues, education sociologists, anthropologists, economists, lawyers, managers, or any other professionals who have a project related to this field.
Faber’s objective is to promote the exchange among residents and the educational community that hosts them, in Olot, la Garrotxa and Catalonia.
Residents
JACOB WATSON
Theatre artist and learning designer
TINA CODINA
Cultural manager
RUNE FJORD
Kunstner & designer
BODIL HOVALDT BØJER
PhD-Fellow, Space Design
GEORGE BELLIVEAU
PhD, Theatre Education
LIZBETH VEGA PÉREZ
Doctor in Psychology (PhD). Resarcher and Full Faculty in Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
MIE GULDBÆK BRØNS
Educational anthropologist and Managing Director at LOOP.bz
TANIA KOLYMPARI
PhD Researcher in Educational Policy and Political Sociology
MARINA MILNER-BOLOTIN
Science educator and teacher educator, science book writer, science education researcher, Associate Professor in Science Education the University of British Columbia (UBC)
ERICA BUIST
Writer, journalist and speaker
KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
Poet, Critic and Editor
Opinions
What residents are saying about us
PhD, Theatre Education
GEORGE BELLIVEAU
Inspirational week to generate creative work FABER provides a rich opportunity for colleagues to exchange ideas over food while being immersed in a beautiful rural setting. The calmness and natural beauty around Olot inspired me to accomplish a great ...
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Doctor in Psychology (PhD). Resarcher and Full Faculty in Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
LIZBETH VEGA PÉREZ
A very productive and rewarding staying in Faber When I heard about Faber for the first time, I think it would be a beautiful place for mi children to be there, because both of them are artists. But last December, one of my colleagues told me that ...
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PhD Researcher in Educational Policy and Political Sociology
TANIA KOLYMPARI
Faber is a place made me feel tranquil, creative and productive. It is a place that made it easy to coax the words from my fingers I came to Faber to develop my project writing up a chapter. The central focus was on how interest groups, such as teacher ...
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Science educator and teacher educator, science book writer, science education researcher, Associate Professor in Science Education the University of British Columbia (UBC)
MARINA MILNER-BOLOTIN
Faber Residency: A unique opportunity to collaborate, learn, and get inspired I have heard about Faber from a colleague who was a Faber resident in 2018 and recommended me to apply. At first I dismissed it. Being a scientist and a science educator, ...
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Poet, Critic and Editor
KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
With gratitude to Faber The Faber Residency is like no other program that exists for artists. When I first arrived, I was struck by both the beauty of the place and the kindness of the individuals who organized the residency. However, the most valuable ...
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