The project focuses on transdisciplinary methodologies and their impact on university student learning and on reflective and creative thinking as a key to personal and professional development.
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 2024-2025 academic year we want to continue with the “Second Round: Art and Fight for Secondary Education” Project, after 9 consecutive editions, focusing on heritage education as the axis of our contributions, promoting alliances with institutions that defend heritage education, both secondary schools, museums, interpretation spaces and heritage environments. The fact of focusing on the subject is reinforced by the numerous actions we carry out working in the field of heritage education. We reinforce the study on the subject by organizing the 1st International Congress DECHADOS. Museums, Education Creativity in October 2024. All these initiatives make the University of Valencia an international benchmark for educational innovation in heritage and heritage education. It is essential to collaborate with secondary schools to support the incorporation of innovative theories and practices, as well as knowledge of the learning possibilities that exist in heritage environments. We believe that education should not be left out of the innovations that we are experiencing at a social, cultural and political level, paying attention to teacher training, through the Master's Degree in Secondary School Teacher Training. We are also concerned with maintaining the ongoing training of secondary school teachers, both in the specialty of drawing and in all other specialties interested in heritage education.
TRAMEVIC (Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture) examines the creation of wartime transnational memories in East Asia through visual culture. The processes of visual remembrance of war-related issues as fluid and changing phenomena that constantly adopt new meaning. The topic is particularly relevant today as it includes unresolved issues that keep conditioning international relations today and regularly cause diplomatic tensions in the region. The project proposes an original transnational and transdisciplinary approach that focuses on how the extensive new usage of images (including films, tv dramas, animation, photos, and other visual material) has allow the representation of a new kind of memory based on often traumatic experiences that expand beyond national boundaries.
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 Educational Equality Observatory in the town of Manises is a permanent study initiative based on the collection and analysis of educational indicators, as well as its dissemination and disclosure to put it at the service of citizens and the people responsible for educational institutions and municipal policies.
The team of the Universitat de València is formed by the coordination in charge of professor Alícia Villar Aguilés and professor Francesc J. Hernàndez y Dobon and with the participation of professors José Beltrán, Daniel Gabaldón, Sandra Obiol and Ignacio Martínez. In addition, there is a Sociology graduate, Vera Massaguer, as an Observatory technician.
The Observatory carries out the analysis of the information collected from educational indicators, the drafting of the reports that are derived and also promotes training and dissemination actions on the topics and issues of interest studied.
It is an initiative that began in 2017.