The Lesson That Never Happened... By Eleonora Malliou
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Looking for the components of the “effective” school and its ability to “listen” to children’s needs and emphasize on their adequate support in a context of communication, understanding and care, we proposed an ART-Project oriented towards this very emotional environment, which surrounds learning.
Eleonora Malliou, as part of Artivism’s European Time Zone Monthly series, will discuss her Art Workshop at the Senior High School, Atsipopoulou-Rethymno Crete, where students created both paintings and creative writing texts.
The main theme dealt with school violence and more generally violence and war in the modern world.
About the Presenter
Eleonora Malliou
Looking for the components of the “effective” school and its ability to “listen” to children’s needs and emphasize on their adequate support in a context of communication, understanding and care, we proposed an ART-Project oriented towards this very emotional environment, which surrounds learning.
Last year, we have created an Art Workshop in our school (Senior High School Atsipopoulou-Rethymnon) where students created both paintings and creative writing texts. The main theme dealt with school violence and more generally violence and war in the modern world.
This year students, while searching life’s norms in a world without meaning, they came to realize values’ supremacy of Life versus Violence, War and Human suffering. So, starting from the “world’s absurd silence”, “despair” and “fear” they tried to reach life’s positivity. A strenuous journey with a unique weapon, their faith in Humanity and their Art.
Bio: Eleonora Malliou is a graduate of the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Crete. She has been working for the last 6 years as a teacher of Greek language at Atsipopoulou Senior High School and as a school life consultant specializing in Special Education issues. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Hellenic Open University specialized in modern and innovative teaching methods. She was an assistant to Professor and Painter F. Klein of the School of Fine Arts in Munich, undertaking the creation of an Art-Project (Painting and Theater) for the students while simultaneously presenting their works in painting exhibitions in Athens and Crete. She has participated as a speaker in workshops organized by the special education consultants of Heraklion for teachers’ training, as well as in various in-school trainings. In the context of her work as an educator and school life consultant, art functions as a basic method of teaching and as psychological support for her students.
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Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation
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