Educating with Death in Mind
Learn pedagogical approaches to integrate death awareness in education for a more complete teaching methodology.
Learn pedagogical approaches to integrate death awareness in education for a more complete teaching methodology.
The course "Educating with Death in Mind" offers a comprehensive approach to integrating death awareness in educational contexts. Traditionally avoided in education, death is actually present in various disciplines like History, Philosophy, Biology, and Art. This course explores how educators can address this topic consciously to provide complete education. Participants will learn to understand the educational possibilities of death awareness, discover resources and methodologies for teaching about death from early childhood through secondary education, and develop principles for educational accompaniment in grief situations. The course emphasizes death pedagogy from various angles including educational foundation, psychopedagogical and anthropological perspectives, curriculum integration, educational resources, and school-based accompaniment during grief situations. By the end, participants will understand how to include death and loss awareness consciously in education, moving from ego-centered approaches to consciousness-based teaching.
Instructors:
Augustine de la Herran Gascon
Pablo Rodríguez Herrero
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What you'll learn
Understand educational possibilities of death awareness for comprehensive life education
Explore methodologies and resources for teaching about death from early childhood through secondary education
Develop principles for educational accompaniment during grief situations in school settings
Integrate death awareness into curriculum across various disciplines like History, Philosophy, and Biology
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Module Description
The course explores death as an educational imperative, examining how awareness of mortality and finitude can enhance student development. It integrates death pedagogy from multiple perspectives: educational foundations, psychopedagogical approaches, anthropological viewpoints, curriculum integration, and practical resources. Participants learn both how to normalize death discussions across educational stages and how to provide educational support through tutorials when students experience significant losses. The course addresses death not as a taboo but as an essential component of comprehensive education, especially relevant in the context of experiences like the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphasizes that complete education requires acknowledging mortality, providing educators with frameworks to approach this topic consciously and constructively with students of various ages.
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Instructors
Augustine de la Herran Gascon
6 Courses
Professor of Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Madrid
Augustine de la Herran Gascon is a pedagogy professor at UAM whose courses explore prenatal education, death pedagogy, and radical pedagogies.
Pablo Rodríguez Herrero
4 Courses
Professor of the Department of Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Madrid
Pablo Rodríguez Herrero teaches at UAM, focusing on labor inclusion and death education through innovative pedagogical approaches.
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