Puppets, an educational and therapeutic tool

   I International Education and Puppet Day 2008
 
THE PUPPETS, AN EDUCATIONAL AND THERAPEUTIC TOOL
 
Presentation of the Conference 
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puppet is a different communication tool from a book or
any other learning tool. You are personally connected to
the user, a quality that explains its effectiveness in
teaching.
These objects are generators of multiple learning, not only involve knowledge (concepts, the purely cognitive), but also involve know-how (procedures, methods, techniques and strategies) and learning to be (norms, values and attitudes). 
Puppet theater is a complete art where the visual arts are combined (shape, color, light, textures), the music (sound, rhythms, silences), the movement (weight, muscle tone, displacements), the theatre (characters, roles, conflict, action, space, time), dance, literature, technology, math (know how to measure, calculate, divide materials),
history, science and values. All disciplines can be present
in a globalizing and interdisciplinary project carried out with
puppets.
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widespread ignorance, often these characters enter a
the classroom as more fun, using the resource to hang out
and thus wasting the great didactic wealth that they can originate. 
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Catalonia and the rest of Spain, it practically does not exist
no writing or research on educational applications and
therapeutic activities of puppets. We are a long way behind
comparison of other European countries. However, many professionals
the education of our country are interested in this medium
learning, but lack of resources (theoretical, practical and personal)
makes him give up the realization of continuous programming with puppets
to reinforce the learnings of their students. A job
interesting is the study license published on this website:
http://www.xtec.cat/~tmartin1
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abroad have a lot of documentation and have formal associations
and assets that organize meetings for professionals for the purpose
to share their experiences and train educators.  
We can find very interesting practices everywhere, not only in the field
school but also in other places where the therapeutic strength of the puppet
necessary: general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, playgrounds,
places where they have suffered natural disasters, orphanages, geriatrics, centers
host…   
This one
day wants to be a discovery of a new formative field based on this
millennial art that is gaining more and more momentum every day
they find new educational, therapeutic and expressive functions. With
To this end, we have invited teachers from our country to join us
explain their experiences in this field and also to Ms.
Madeleine Lions (President of the Puppet Association and
Therapy ”of France, and of FIMS (Fédération Internationale de la
Puppet for Health)
, a world leader in education
puppet therapy, which will tell us the origins and the situation
current therapies and learning with puppets in the world.   
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Finally, we would like to thank the ECOM Foundation for its participation
puppet show "Neighborhood Companions" will show us how the
our students can approach the play in a playful way
awareness of people with disabilities.
We hope your attendance is fun and rewarding.
Teia Moner 

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