Art-based Solutions to Activate Empathy in Schools
The first & only social enterprise in VN with experts in Arts for Human Development, providing solutions that successfully address the most abstract problems.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
Life Art Vietnam
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Vietnam, HI, Hanoi
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Vietnam, HI, Hanoi
Tu organización es
Empresa
Tu rol en la Educación
Consejero, Trabajador social, Maestro.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Pública (gratuita)
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
1-5 años
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Innovación
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¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando entre 1-5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
As a result of history and tradition, schools in Vietnam follow the “banking model” of education, in which students are described as empty, passive containers which educators, the active subjects, deposit knowledge into. Students suffer and adapt to a suffocating curriculum, a habit of robotically learning by repetition unconsidered facts from textbooks to pass many exams, and an atmosphere that focuses on encouraging competition among students. This model not only prevents students from pursuing and enjoying knowledge in a proper manner, but also fails to enable them to understand themselves, to be expressive, to relate to their community, and to link the knowledge they have been taught to the real life, which are all very essential to developing empathy.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
In order to activate empathy teaching in schools, we will train the teachers to adopt our art-based methods.
Our art-based methods have been proven to be effective in supporting individual development in many ways, including teaching empathy. We use exercises from various types of art (devised theatre, contemporary dance, painting, etc.) as materials to produce interactive activities that stimulate participants’ creativity, imagination and abilities to communicate with the others. Being expressive and empathetic will naturally emerge as a requirement for the participants to complete the activities (please watch the attached video).
We will hold a 6-month program to train teachers to integrate our methods into their pedagogy, thus creating a schooling environment that nourishes empathy. Teachers will directly experience the activities, and together will discuss, develop the theoretical core and possible usages of our art-based methods so that they can fit in the schooling environment.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
Raising empathy in a community: KOTO Vietnam is a project that aims to equip professional skills in hospitality for street children in Vietnam. Since the children come from very different backgrounds and have very diverse perspectives, they may not communicate with each other well. The class 17 happened to be the worst case, in which children even bore grudge against each other. KOTO invited Life Art to conduct a program to help solve the problem. Through the art-based, interactive and playful activities, the children became more open to share their personal histories and difficulties to communicate with the class, thus gradually making them more willing to explore, understand and accept others. After the workshop, the class 17 became a close-knit community, where all could relate to each other in a natural, easy manner.
Training teachers to adopt Life Art’s methods in school: TOT was a 6-month project that created an opportunity for teachers to understand Life Art’s methods and practice integrating Life Art’s methods into their own teaching methods. The participants experienced and discussed the usage and effectiveness of our methods, as well as learnt about Paulo Freire’s theories – the foundation of our methods. At the end of the project, a group of participants initiated a project that helped 12 sub-urban children be more expressive and empathetic. A participant, who is the dean of the Critical Thinking department at the Foreign Language University, also selectively incorporated some of our methods into the university’s curriculum.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
In Vietnam, there are many other centers that also provide communication skills, but they differentiate from us in two main points. First, those centers only focus on adults, who are claimed to need soft skills to succeed in their jobs, while we don't limit our methods to any particular age. Second, they follow the traditional theory-based, teacher-led method of teaching to inform participants the steps to achieve a particular skill, while we focus on the experiencing process and give room for participants to interpret and build their own lessons.
Those centers hardly pose any challenge to our project, since their target is not children or school. We actually hope that after observing the effectiveness of our methods, those centers can adopt and help popularize our methods.
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Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
The first & only social enterprise in VN with experts in Arts for Human Development, successfully addressing the most abstract problems.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Create an artistic, relaxing, playful environment in which individuals can develop various abstract abilities, including empathy.
Impacto social
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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
3-year impacts assessment:
1. Intensive training of trainers in Facilitating Development through Arts (50 sessions, 150 hrs): 60 participants, 18 100% scholarships. Trainees from those courses have applied what they learnt in their workplace, schools, and projects.
2. Public Workshops: 30 workshops, 450 participants - adults and children. We create a safe setting for individuals to develop creativity and critical thinking - to experiment themselves. We also provide 45 scholarships for selected scholars from difficult circumstances.
4. Me project: A project with The Will to Live Center, working with 25 disabled young people. We organized art-based activities to support their self-worth pursuit, and sharing/learning process. The project attracted considerable attention from the media.
5. Creating Art For Development Net-Work: 40 practical sharing sessions with 40 topics, 70 regular participants.
6. Training on Radical Pedagogy for 50 school head-masters in Hanoi.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
After the 6-month program, there will be 20 teachers who can professionally adopt our methods and around 800 students who directly benefit from their teachers' innovation in teaching method. After 1 year, we expect that 200 teachers will understand and be able to integrate our methods into their teaching, and 8000 students will start to benefit from our methods. We expect that needs will arise, and we will organize more similar programs upon requests. Also, this project will capture the media's interest, thus making art-based methods more familiar to the majority of people and changing their traditional "banking model" perspective on education. Only when many people are aware of the necessity and effectiveness of our methods, a real education reform can take place in a large scale.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
Train 20 teachers to adopt the art-based methods in schools.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Organize a 6-month program to provide teachers the opportunity to explore, understand and practice our art-based methods.
Tarea 2
Support participants in researching and finding new art-based methods that are proper to schooling environment.
Tarea 3
Gain support from media, organizations and government.
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Make the participants become the trainers, so that the art-based methods will be more and more popular in schools.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Participants monthly report the advantages and difficulties when adopting art-based methods in schools.
Tarea 2
Prepare participants for training their colleagues to adopt our methods. Gain support from media, organizations and government.
Tarea 3
Monitor participants' training programs and support them to identify and solve difficulties.
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
I studied Psychology, Sociology and Economics in India. I then came to know a project that used media and theatre for development, which interested me a lot because I always wanted to do something artistic and creative, while still doing work related to Psychology. I decided to apply and won a scholarship to go to University of Winchester to study Media and Theatre as Development. When I came back to Vietnam, I realized that this method for development was very effective; it could be applied to support people to develop their most abstract abilities, regardless of their ages, backgrounds or social conditions. Usually when people are playing and being creative, they are more comfortable to see themselves, approach their own problems and relate to the others. I decided that I would use this method to help improve Vietnam's education system - to create a learning space that is more empathetic, creative and encouraging. That is the reason why I founded Life Art.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
The Department of Education and Training of Hai Ba Trung district will be an important partner in our project, since in the past we successfully provided several training programs for teachers from schools in Hai Ba Trung district. We also have contacts of many principals and teachers from kindergartens and primary schools in Hanoi.
Our partners will have the responsibility to ensure the participants' commitment during the program and support them to adopt our methods afterwards. They are also encouraged to give us feedback and join in researching new art-based learning methods.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
For the 6-month program, our facilitators all have firm foundation of knowledge and years of experience in art-based learning facilitation skills. Our CEO is holding a Master degree in Media and Theatre as Development from Winchester University. One of our facilitators has been a professional Improvisation Theatre actor for 10 years, and another facilitator is a professional soft skill trainer for children.
We also have a large and committed team of volunteers to ensure that our project will never face a deficit of workforce.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
We need a tailor-made marketing plan to popularize the art-based learning methods. Because our method requires the participants to experience to really understand the effectiveness, the usual marketing plan does not work well.
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