Coordinating gardening activities throughout the year
Spring is the time when every gardener's thoughts turn to the horticultural year ahead. Jennifer Wenborn outlines how gardening ideas can be used in care homes.
Using a sensory approach to improve wellbeing
Despite the importance of sensory stimulation, it can sometimes be unwittingly overlooked in care homes. Jennifer Wenborn describes how to improve this aspect of care.
Historias de mi barrio: contemporary art in a community at high risk of social exclusion
Abstract Historias de mi barrio is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex contexts and whether it might eventually lead to pedagogic improvement. The results gathered, and indeed the work carried out by the artists and university lecturers involved, together with pupils 6–12 years old and their instructors in a state school, provide evidence of a positive answer – and notably of the necessity of knowing about the socio-economic reality of the student cohort when planning learning projects and of the importance of the arts as a crucial element in education.