Inspired By The Subway Project And More...
Inspired by the Subway Project and more...
I've been quiet of recent… slowed down blogging upon completion of the written element of my dissertation. I have still been editing the interviews as you can see from previous posts - and have much more to do!
I quite often post links that I find useful to my course's Facebook page and was thinking that I could post some of those links here as well in case anyone is interested. Will also try and tie together some of my interests here.
As well as my museum and freelance work, I have been volunteering for the 'Inspired by the Subway' HLF project, which is a project that is collecting oral history and archive material related to the hidden subway in Crystal Palace Park. The finds will be gathered together to create a resource that will lead to an exhibition of work by local young people . Take a look at what we have been up to so far here:
http://www.inspiredbythesubway.org.uk
I've also been looking and applying for more work in the museum/heritage education field, which as you can imagine is quite a task! A hugely popular area to work in. However, I love what I do and feel that 2013 has been a great year for me in terms of gaining more experience and work so far! Fingers crossed for further work in 2014!
I hope 2013 has been a good year for you all and look forward to more adventures in 2014!
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Me in the World
October 2016
Hello there :)
Testing out writing a bit more regularly about what I do in my tutoring, music and storytelling sessions. I would be interested to hear if any of it is useful to anyone reading this.
So the first activity that I am going to talk about is a one I found through a search of Montessori blogs. It is called a 'Me on the Map' or 'Me in the world' activity. It is an activity I didn't come across when I was Montessori teaching a few years back. However, when searching for activities about the world I really liked the idea of this. An important part of Montessori philosophy for me is the area of cultural education. Montessori was very much dedicated to peace and the activities in this area really develop this through helping children to understand more about the world, their place in it and how everything is connected.
I tried this activity out with two brothers I tutor. The idea is that you have coloured circles of ascending sizes. You start by asking the child to draw a picture of themselves and then their house and gradually progress to their continent and the world.
The youngest started accordng to the plan. He wasn't too keen on drawing his houseso drew the entry gate to his house. We only did about three last week and completed this week because the activity did not captivate him as much as others. The eldest decided that he would do it in his own way and started with a mean looking character who ended up living on the moon. He gave areas of the moon different number codes that got more complex as they went along and really got into it. I had intended that he did it about himself, however, I loved his creativity. Below are the results. And here is a link to the page I found the best for describing this activity and variations: Here
Bye for now....
I'm doing #100happydays - I think I'm ok at noticing things and will try and make it more museum/career orientated, but with space for other happy things :) Doesn't mean my life will be all blue skies- but today is! I did feel a bit resentful/confused of/by the sudden sun these past mornings because I felt so tired but the sun has won me over today :)
Cool! Visible Storage & Study Centre at Brooklyn Museum....
‘Rosie’s Walk’ encouraging the kids to copy and create doodles to create a similar style to the book :) Native Speaker Teacher in a Vienna Primary School...
These works clearly demonstrate that it is the novelist rather than the theoretician who is best able to capture the relationship between the urban environment and human behaviour
Merlin Coverley in 'Psychogeography' when talking about JG Ballard, questioning some of the work of Debord and the Situationists...
The Hudson runs past....
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