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Arts & Communication Photography and museums for senior students

Figure 3. “Familiar tragedy” (1937) by Ángel Tévar Orozco. Painting
detail in the permanent exhibition of the Valencian Museum of Fine Arts.
Figure 2. Photograph of a piece from the Valencian City of Arts and Author: Miguel Marín Jiménez.
Sciences. Author: María José Tamarit Moradillo.
technology to take the images and share them with the
as well as in understanding the identities of their cultural group promotes an exchange of mutual knowledge. It is
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reality, thus promoting a global understanding of the social advisable to adapt our educational practices, bringing them
environment from proposals for active and participatory closer to the possibilities offered by the digital universe. 32
methodologies. 26 To promote the development of critical and creative
The work develops an analysis of the value of the thinking, it is important to give students spaces and moments
photographs taken during the drift, as a means to investigate for debates that promote analysis, synthesis, interpretation,
the social environment from the lived experience. It is inference, and the issuance of judgments, mostly when the
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investigated from an ethnographic, narrative, and artistic students are back in the classroom and the group discusses
perspective, involving all the research agents in the the photographs. In this way, a more daring and disobedient
construction of an active story that is complemented and education is promoted, through innovative experiences
built in different phases: search, analysis and selection of that allow them to express their ideas, formulating ethical
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images, discussion, analysis, and joint reflection with the and esthetic questions. Creative skills that contribute to
group. 28 looking at current challenges with different perspectives
are also required, especially for senior students, who come
The analysis of images is carried out through educational to the classroom with an important baggage, due to their
research actions with senior students, where the artistic accumulated life experience. A process of creative reflection
gaze plays a priority role in their practice, with a process must be included in the activities, inside and outside the
consisting of: image search through inquiry; selection, classroom, to give students the ability to propose innovative
compilation, and analysis of these images; elaboration of solutions to specific problems.
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a personal proposal from the images; collective exhibition
and analysis through discussion groups of the results of Critical thinking is the ability to analyze and reflect
the images; and finally systematization and joint debate on facts objectively, to form a judgment or opinion, solve
of the result of the discussion groups on the images. In problems systematically, and understand the logical
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some cases, images offered us details and close-up captures connections between ideas, values, and beliefs that are based
of any pieces exhibited in the museum, as reflected in the in society. The necessary data must be collected to analyze
work by Miguel Marín (Figure 3). and understand situations, reaching logical conclusions.
When people have the ability to use critical reflection,
Capturing photographs taken at the exhibitions they are not easily manipulated. The psychologist Joy
in museums allows us to prepare detailed reports on Paul Guilford points out sensitivity to problems, fluidity,
the discussion processes, based on the analysis of the flexibility, novelty and originality, elaboration, analytical
photographs presented by the students. It is convenient and synthesis capacity, reorganization or redefinition,
to influence this process as one of the keys of the complexity, and evaluation as proper aptitudes for
investigation since it generates a pedagogical practice in success in the development of creative thinking. Both
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which the result is a conscious learning process, based in the classroom and during the drifts in museums, the
on an autoethnographic visual story. The use of digital students have been able to experience these skills by

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