Contributions from the Techne to the Teaching Approach in Secondary and High School.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse some of the aspects of our secondary and high school education that determine the prevalent current pedagogic situation, such as the working dynamics or the relationship between the learning process and its results, and how they could be improved. Based on both the working methods observed and the experience gained during my internship at Ibarrekolanda High School of Performing Arts, Music and Dance, I present the thesis that art methodologies can enrich learning processes of formal education. Diverse art techniques allow us developing skills to deal with issues and tackle problems that arise in creative processes and life. This paper framed in the field of formal education is based on non-formal education experiences. Whereas structures of educational institutions define pre-established objectives and results, in western artistic contexts artists have launched during the last decades transmission programs in order to promote open processes. The working methods and relations used in these programs are convenient and applicable at secondary school. Some of the factors that sustain the change artistry leads on secondary education and high school are diversity of solutions and results, acceptance of particularities, weakness and dullness, close attention to relations and qualities, more comprehensive relationship between educators and students, and among students themselves, interaction and movement of freer bodies and identification with school.