María Acaso is a reference figure in the field of the so-called 21st Century Education.
Concerned about the problems that teachers have right now in transmitting knowledge to their students, she states that it is necessary to change teaching methods.
In her opinion, more important than WHAT we want to teach is HOW we can teach it.
For this reason, she has developed 5 action frameworks from which teachers must start to build teaching and learning dynamics.
The 5 micro-revolutions
She denominates these 5 frames with the word.
chiripitifláutica microrevolutions:
- Accept that what we teach is not what students learn.
Take into account the unconscious of each person when processing information. - Changing power dynamics.
Democratize the classroom.
What the teacher can teach the student is as important as what the student can teach the teacher, or what the students can learn from each other. - Thinking with the body.
Rehabilitating learning spaces.
Rethinking work times.
Living in the place where one learns. - Moving from the simulation of study to the learning experience.
To unite the concept of pleasure with the concept of effort. - Stop evaluating and move on to research.
To dispense with exams.
Find new ways to represent learning.
Kaleidoscope, by Pablo Salvaje. Poster 50×70.
In the SHOP. Above: Dreams, by Ana Truan. Original 23×15.
In the SHOP.
The rEDUvolution
Another term invented by María Acaso, and which is generating currents of sympathy around the world, is rEDUvolution, which combines revolution with education .
As coordinator of the Fundación Telefónica School of Disruptive Education since 2013, María gives talks and organizes meetings between pedagogues and mothers/parents to encourage change and generate dialogue.
María is also a founding member of the group Invisible Pedagogies, created in 2008, through which she approaches and implements projects related to art and pedagogy, such as the Art Thinking School.
Mario, by Pablo Rueda (Pintachán). Poster 30×42.
In the SHOP.
Art and critical thinking
In an interview published on the website Realinfluencers, Maria Acaso states that critical thinking has disappeared from schools.
“Developing critical thinking, and especially visual critical thinking, is one of the most important goals of any educational institution,” assures María.
“The arts have been practically annihilated from the Spanish educational system ,” Maria continues. A society that has deprived children and young people of knowledge about the languages they consume the most (audiovisual language) is a blind society in every sense”.
“Any teacher, both formal and non-formal, any mother or father, any person who is dedicated to educating, can find in the arts elements to recover that passion for thinking and for developing their own emancipatory thinking”. MARÍA ACASO “Art incorporates everything that has fallen by the wayside: divergent and critical thinking, pleasure and amazement, the ability to empower those who are generating that knowledge, as well as slow and complex community work processes”. MARÍA ACASO
Take a look at these 3 books by.
Maria Acaso, they are interesting:
Art Thinking: how art can transform education. (Paidós), co-written with
Clara Megías; rEDUvolution: making the revolution in education (Paidós), and
Invisible Pedagogies: The Classroom Space as Discourse (Catarata), also co-written with Clara Megías (Catarata), also co-written with Clara Megías.
