Activities
We have recently finished the writing of a book that describes the basic ideas of Eureka. We´ve put them in relation to actual research in neuroscience, pedagogy and cognition. There are also a lot of examples of how one can use art in daily education during the first seven years of school. You can order it from us. Later during 2010 it will be available on the internet.
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A book of ideas and
inspiration has been published in Swedish by Ekelunds (Gleerups). It’s
aimed at teachers, art educators and other interested parties, and of
interest in the context of teacher education courses. The book is based
around experiences in years 1 to 4, but also lends itself to use with
older students, both at high school and sixth-form college.
The Swedish title of the book is: Eureka
- en idébok om konstens väg till matematiken och tvärtom (roughly
translated as: ”Eureka – from art to mathematics and back again”).
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An evaluation was carried out by Karin Thörne, attached to the University of Karlstad, during the project’s initial phase which ran up to the autumn of 2004. If you’re interested in this, please contact us.
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Work continued during the academic year 2007-08, utilising the visual arts, and in terms of the use of rythm and movement. Efforts continued to more closely connect these with various parts of the curriculum, most often with mathematics, but also with areas such as language, life-skills/ethics, etc. We’ve worked in part with rythm therapy, in part with choreography based on rythm; often with the use of canes. Through improvisation, students arrived at different movement patterns which they then demonstrated for one another and for younger students.
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During the years 2004 to 2007 we’ve been given the opportunity
to exhibit the work of students at
Café Havsnära , situated in Kungshamn’s harbour. The café is run by Smögens
Havsbad This was the case again in 2007, when the exhibition took
place during the period 1st – 24th June. Professor Rolf Ekman of the
Sahlgrenska Institute. Our ambition is to show the whole
breadth of our work, but for obvious reasons it’s visual images which are
the easiest form of illustration. At the exhibition opening, students gave a
performance demonstrating some of the rythmic and drama-related aspects of
Eureka.
