We would like to invite educators / learning facilitators working with adults, especially with adults from disfavored groups, i.e. the disabled, the imprisoned, the long term unemployed, the disadvantaged who are at risk of social exclusion, etc.
The course we want to offer will help adult educators to learn how to provide a very interesting and not too often seen training form which proves to be very successful when working with named above groups. This form particularly stimulates participants’ creativity and continuous work which, as a result, develops other social competences such as ability to listen and understand what is being said, team work, ability to understand written text, verbal communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving skills and many, many more.
What we also noticed is that this particular form of artistic expression and creativity helps learners to build their empowerment and they learn to acquire the ability to finish what had been started. What is also very important is the fact that they build their self-esteem, self-confidence and self-efficacy especially when their pieces of arts are being exhibited and admired by others.
This is a course that no one has designed and offered before within Erasmus+ network. It is a typical hands-on practical course with as little theory as possible and as much practical input as possible. We put emphasis on your involvement and physical engagement in it. You will be taught by experienced practitioners who not only have made thousands of stained-glass windows in their professional lives but also have passed on their knowledge to hundreds of people and art is their passion.
There are two main goals of the course: first one is to prepare / teach art educators how to work with the technique of making stained-glass windows, and the other is to make them master the basic treatment techniques and various possibilities of embellishment and usage of stained glass to make your own projects in the Tiffany technique. Skills gained during the course will give the participant strong foundations to start working with glass and will give participants further possibilities to develop themselves within this field. Participants will learn new methodology, gain theoretical skills how to make stained-glass windows, they will get to know the tools that are needed to use during the process and last but not least – participants will make their own stained-glass window.
