Poetry and Global Education
– Jose Antonio Franco

Objectives

Given the almost universal rejection of poetry by students due to a recurring exploitation of the poetic text for various tasks school, to the detriment of the literary text of enjoyment and sensitivity education aesthetics, and the lack of strategies to motivate the habit and the pleasure of reading poetry, it is proposed to reading mediators:

1. Understand the importance of teaching poetry, both in the emotional field as cognitive;
2. Develop the ability to stimulate the child’s relationship with poetry and the poetic text;
3. Develop the taste and aesthetic sensibility;
4. Encourage and develop critical thinking;
5. Create conditions for communication and for poetic production;
6. Children develop motivational strategies and young people for the acts of reading and writing.

 

Program

1. Poetry in modern society
   – Teaching of poetry nowadays
   – Social context of the poetic text
2. The education of taste
   – The influence of the media
   – Advertising
   – Standardization of the citizen (consumer)
   – The intellectual formlessness
3. The approach of poetry
   – Education sensitivity
   – The classroom environment
   – The relationship with the world
4. The use of language
   – Contact with the poetic text
   – Reading and writing
5. Poetry in the classroom
   – The game
   – Creativity
   – Poetic production
   – Poetry workshops
6. Poetry in the National Reading Plan
7. Final synthesis and conclusion

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Technical

Design and production: Jose Antonio Franco
Number of participants: minimum 15 and maximum 25
Duration: 7 hours (6th or Saturday)
Target: kindergarten teachers, elementary school teachers, librarians and technical libraries.