Second Round is a consolidated innovation project (linked to the Consolidated Group GCID23_2584190) focused on promoting artistic education in the world of Secondary Education. During the 2023-2024 academic year we want to continue with the “Second Round: Art and Struggle in Secondary” Project, after 8 consecutive editions, focusing on museums as allied institutions, promoting alliances with inclusive and sustainable museums.

One of the main objectives of the small luthiers is to provide students and teachers with creative autonomy, involving them in processes of contemporary artistic creation. On the one hand, the construction of the tools within a DIY philosophy will bring us closer to a craft concept that will reinforce the idea of an authentic artistic work that fights against the vision of precooked solutions as a recipe that ends up homogenizing learning and nullifying the true value artistic thought.

The line of research is to continuously use procedures to think reflectively and creatively and turn them into a way of dealing with diverse situations, a culture of thought in action. Betting on transdisciplinary research (frameworks, tools and strategies) promoting civic engagement with the aim of empowering future education professionals.

This project recognizes the relevance and need to value and promote creative thinking in adolescents. We propose a boost in the creative level of our adolescent students who attend secondary school, incorporating for this a highly relevant resource such as museums, powerful informal education environments that can help us improve the secondary educational scenario, generating synergies with educational centers. For this we propose to promote the encounter with the educational potential that museums offer us, activating mediation efforts between secondary schools and museums. Facing and approaching the challenge in advance will help to better understand the situation, emphasize the strengths that our students have and detect the points that can be improved around creative thinking.

The purpose of the project is to contribute to a more plural approach to teaching-learning modalities at the University, focusing especially on those that favor reflective-creative thinking and the awareness of students in the construction of knowledge and in their learning process. From the contrast that reflective practice and collaborative teamwork allow, the project wants to be one more contribution to the design of these interventions and learning experiences, providing evidence of their effect on professional development and the development of generic skills in education. higher education through the development of transdisciplinary practices and from the perspective of the sustainable development goals.

The project aims to improve the capacities of state authorities to identify, analyze, monitor and evaluate online hate speech in order to develop and strengthen counter-narrative strategies (upstander speech) against hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism and antigypsyism. Within the framework of the working group led by Benno Herzog and the Critical Theory Research group, the aim is to discuss and generate a map of good practices and effective teaching tools for the counter-narrative of hate speech on the web.

This research project, funded through grants for activities related to the recovery of the Democratic Memory and the victims of the Civil War and the Dictatorship, it is proposed to clarify the events that occurred, as well as their symbolic significance and, above all, their persistence in memory by going through eight decades of the life of images and will manifest itself in documents for schools, as well as visual material, projects for exhibition spaces, civic centers, or associations, giving rise to conferences and debates.

It is a project prepared by a team of teachers from the area of Sociology that teaches subjects focused on understanding the social structure and its implications for education in the degrees of Teacher of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, and in the Master in Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Valencia and the University of Cantabria. The project uses cinema as a didactic tool for the analysis of social reality, specifically social inequalities. It is about viewing (one or more) films and analyzing them from the contents seen in the subject (bibliography, master classes), first individually and then in a group seminar in class. In this sense, it is an initiative that starts from previous experiences of similar characteristics (EspaiCinema) developed in the Faculty of Teaching of the University of Valencia.

INSTRUMENTARIUM XX1 is an innovative project whose main objective is the design, construction and validation of musical instruments for the 20th century, characterized by the hybridization between analog and digital, combining tradition, avant-garde and sustainability. The instruments, made with ecological materials, will have the possibility of amplification through an electrical-mechanical system based on low cost technology. Characteristics of these will be the ergonomics and adaptability to different ages and physical conditions, their robustness and portability. Its ability to generate new sounds and its detachment from a specific sound paradigm will facilitate the multicultural fit and the opening towards contemporary languages. The other objective is to validate the instruments created with people of all ages, through their active and inclusive participation in artistic creation processes. INSTRUMENTARIUM XX1 is conceived as an itinerant, installable, educational and cultural sound laboratory for quality creative and artistic development and that guarantees a society more committed to art and culture. Validation takes the form of plural intervention in formal, non-formal and informal educational and cultural contexts, pursuing another of the objectives, that of knowledge transfer. An investigation will be initiated that allows the improvement of benefits and actions through data obtained from the experiences of the participants.