The last issue of the journal Aula de Innovación Educativa (ISSN: 2014-4725), July-August, entitled “La escuela del ser”, which has been coordinated by Dr Buxarrais. The table of contents can be found and the issue bought in this link.

In this issue, Maria Rosa Buxarrais and Marta Burguet are the authors of the article entitled “Pedagogia de la interioridad”, with the following abstract:

Describimos algunos de los rasgos característicos de la pedagogía de la interioridad. Es necesario educar en esta dimensión personal, a menudo descuidada de manera intencionada. Los proyectos pedagógicos de interioridad afloran en la era de la conciencia plena, del crecimiento personal, del ser; es decir, un descubrimiento consciente, como principal responsable de la apertura a sensibilidades sociales y colectivas que contribuye a la construcción de la identidad de la persona.

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Appearance of Maria Rosa Buxarrais in the program “Vespre a La 2” in National Spanish TV (RTVE), on the 20th of June, as the President of the Board of the Telèfon de l’Esperança of Barcelona, explaining the objective of this institution and how it works. In the video below we can see (starting at 3:25 min) the presentation of a mobile app called esperança.cat (in Catalán) created to promote values education. This app is explained by the Director of the institution, Neus Calleja.

The app “esperança.cat” is especially designed for teenagers and young people. It is a way to promote values and communication tools for listening and support that should be useful for their interpersonal relationships. The aim of this app is to equip young people with communication resources so they can help support to people in their social circles that might be suffering.

More information about this app in http://www.telefonoesperanza.com/app-esperanca-cat/

Original video: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/vespre-a-la-2/vespre2-sencer20juny/3640545/ (a partir de minuto 21:22)

During the last month of May, Dr Buxarrais has taught a workshop on values education to the Association of Mothers and Fathers of students (AMPA in Spanish) in the school Elisenda de Montcada. This workshop was suggested by Dr Buxarrais to the centre in relation to the recent implementation in the school of an emotional education program for the students. The school is located in the suburb “Ciudad Meridiana”, which was born to accommodate immigrant population coming from very diverse places of the world. Everybody in the education community is making enormous efforts to achieve a good integration for students at all levels, both linguistically and culturally.

The aim of this workshop, divided in three sessions, was to provide an opportunity for parents to share topics and problems in their families, in the interaction with their children and in relation to the expression of values and feelings.

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