Duration
Hours
Location
Organized
This exhibition takes us back to the decades before the Civil War to show us the project of social modernization, which inspired the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE) and its proposal for an education based on the release of the creative forces of each person.
The exhibition path part of what defines the project of the ILE ("a modernizing project") and the main elements of their new pedagogy. In the first place, the game as a basis for the construction of the self (and the other), and activity first, which configures the knowledge and relationships ("the game that creates us"). Then, we show how to learn by doing and learn how to do, becoming the apprentice in a creator ("to learn is to create"), and are presented to the arts as a vehicle of training irreplaceable ("the arts teach us"). Finally, the exhibition shows us how this idea of education means learning the life in the nature and life in the nature, and ends with the reflection of a education achieved is the one that leads to conceive of "life as a work of art". All of these proposals, which are dormant in the project of modernization which led to the ILE, establish a fruitful dialogue with our present.