EL DECOLLAGE COMO TÉCNICA DE RECONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA MEMORIA DEL PASADO

Abstract

April 26, 2021 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. With the aim of publicizing the  history of the accident and its impact on society, as well as working on the values of resilience,  selfimprovement, empathy, recognition of emotions and their expression, a teaching experience was carried out at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Manresa (UVic-UCC) with sixteen third-year students of the master’s degree in Early Childhood Education, in the subject of Art Tuition II. Using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)  and artistic creation, we propose from education proposals that help us give students a voice and that foster dynamics of action that not only promote awareness and reflection, but also allow us to structure the  concerns of the students regarding problematic contexts of environmental education. Drawing a parallel between the events of Chernobyl and deconstruction, children under 5 years of age were encouraged to paint imaginary landscapes of a brave new world, and then they were forced by the teachers to break the paintings created into small fragments to experience the sensation of sudden loss. Finally, the students worked as a team reconstructing together a collaborative image of the landscape of a better world from the pieces resulting from the previous destruction. The techniques learned, in addition to developing the creativity of early childhood education students, facilitate teamwork, and the development of solidarity and empathy.