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The city is a classroom. Creativity as a tool for thinking about education in the present

Maria Acaso proposes to consider the city as a classroom and use creativity as a tool to rethink current education. He criticizes the obsolescence of traditional education, which is vertical, encourages individualism and tends to kill the passion for learning.
His main proposal is to use art and creativity, what he calls "art thinking", as a methodology to generate meaningful learning. This "art thinking" is understood as a way of thinking and producing knowledge, not as creating objects for the art market
It presents four fundamental principles: divergent thinking, which seeks multiple solutions instead of a single answer. The "sexy pedagogy", which reincorporates pleasure, wonder and the unexpected in the classroom to capture attention and facilitate learning. Understanding education as cultural production and empowering educators and students as artists. Finally, the DIWO format (“Do It With Others”), promoting collaborative work in long, slow projects and accepting failure as part of the creative process. These artistic methodologies are applicable to any discipline and seek to generate critical thinking.
M.Acaso emphasizes that education needs an urgent revolution and encourages culture and education technicians to be brave, take risks and collaborate to transform the educational landscape.

The city is a classroom. Creativity as a tool for thinking about education in the present

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