Partner - innovation education centre
“IDEJA”
Why we are in the project
and what has been done in Art therapy by our Centre.
During long-standing period of time, our Centre is implementing
advanced education programes for teachers in visual and applied arts. As a
result, the programes were of high demand by teachers. In the course of the
program implementation, we noticed that we are working not only with teachers
of pictorial arts, but from other subjects, as mathematics, chemistry, biology,
linguistics and literature. We decided to conducts survey and results were
quite eloquent, 35 % among program participants were teachers representing not
artistic ambit.
The results after our survey were the following:
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Our program are of high demand
because of innovative approaches in methodology of education;
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Our classes are conducive to
memory improvement, concentration and enhancing of general employability at
workplace;
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Our classes assist to resist
stress after working day in class work;
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Give a smooth shift from
working mood into another activities;
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Disclose absolutely unexpected
art potential of educators, which positively influence on their professional
activity as well as their private life;
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Improve slumber and health.
All abovementioned was encompassed into a new Artherapy program.
While its development, we used innovative experience of national and
international scholars, as well as our own experience, what made the product
even more unique.
It is not a secret, that the notion “arttherapy” is related to
medicine in Latvia. It is used for correctional influence on patients who
suffer from physical and mental disorders. Our Centre commenced using a new
resource of arttherapy as a tool for personal development, as well as a tool
for working with their students.
The first step of the creation of arttherapy module for pupils’
development was the program to comprise kinder-garden kids into education game
free-space process.
We have created and developed a series of tools and approaches,
allowed the kids in more beneficial way, with interest master rudiments of
maths, reading skills, writing. The results in groups, where participants
applied our methodology was quite prominent to pursue artherapy techniques in
education and upbringing.
The obstacles which were
faced in Artherapy programme implementation
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Conservatism of teachers and
educators, especially in elderly age. They are very enthusiastic in mastering
new materials, but reluctant to apply it in practice, due to the fear not to be
supported by management of schools;
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Absence of complex material
database and methodologies in arttherapy;
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Absence of systematic access to
materials, albeit in general curricula of secondary schools there is no
artherapy.
Our materials are used by enthusiasts who are eager to improve the
level of teaching and personally witnessed the benefits of artherapy in
practice.
