AOLE 2 Silvia Babe Villanueva 2018

“Cross-curricular learning promotes authenticity in teaching and learning. Authentic learning experiences involve adult and child leaners together.” (Driscoll, Lambirth and Roden, 2015. p. 274). We are living in a world that it is in a continue change where social, instructive and educational functions are three key points in the life and with those functions is how we are going to create the women and the men from the future. On these years the education had changed a lot as the people is trying to ‘create’ people more solidarized, open minds, actives, conscious of their rights, etc. In this case, the education in the XXI century, must face three basic objectives where the Themes or Cross cutting theme have to develop (Gonzalez Lucini, 1993): 1.        First is to awake the pupil’s illusion. That means, the illusion of live the life, fight for something positive and for something that you really want to have and to get in a future. 2.  ...

The creativity is still something that does not have one only definition because is something general and too big for defined in a sentence. There is something that I would like to add, that it is not the same for example, the creativity that we use in an educational way than the one that for example an engineer need to use to create something or look for a solution. In this case I am going to focused in the educational creativity and I am going to explain if it is important and the value of it in a primary school class. First of all I would say that creativity is the base of education, not just in primary, I would say from the Early Years until university studies. A creative person means new ideas about a theme, means new studies and new ideas about something. In the educational way, there is something that I really like and I will try to do as much as I can in my future, and is just ask the children a question about something that we are talking about and listen to the answer...

“Unless students find ways to come up with own musical ideas, they will have no way of expressing themselves in musical thought and action”. (Woodford, 1996). Music taught is drawn from Western tonal music. (Carlos et al, 2016). Classical music: Never became a long lasting. (Pedro De Bruydiere) . "Every music can be relaxing but did not produce 'super results' or not having any influence." (Wagner and Tilney)  Did you ask yourself any time what should be this world without music? I did, and I cannot imagine this world without music, basically because I am a person which is the whole time with music 24/7. I am that kind of person that puts music to everything, to every moment, to everyone… for me it tells me a lot of things, for example, how you feel. Every type of music means different things, different kinds of moods. A song could tell you lots of things besides the lyrics that it is another message but, the important thing is that the rhythm, the m...

What is mindfulness? Knowing directly what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment.  (Williams, 2018). Mindfulness it is a way to think that now a day is having more contact with the education. People could probably think that it would not work with the pupils at all because it is something that the global think of it is to get concentrate and think on yourself in silence. Mindfulness could surprise us. In my case, I thought that mindfulness would not work with the children because it is something difficult to try with a whole class or with a group of children, but as I saw it, I was completely wrong. Last summer, in 2018, I went to a volunteering for a month in Cambodia, I was being an instructor with an NGO in a summer camp with children from 3 to 17 years old. Incidentally, most of the blogs that I will write, my experience will be include in Cambodia and some placements that I had in a school in Spain two years ago with pupils from 0 to 5 years ol...