From 10.30 a.m. today, the Multifunctional Square hosts the 20th MUS-E Meeting, where more than 400 students and their families, representing the 15 schools, participate in this socio-educational and cultural program that seeks to promote coexistence, intercultural dialogue, as well as the development of creativity and imagination.
As explained by the Provincial Director, Juan Ángel Berbel, with these actions “it is always intended that they transcend the physical space of the classroom and allow minors, guided by the artists and teachers involved, to acquire an artistic dimension that favors inclusiveness and educational, social and cultural integration, where we intend to involve families in that process of permanent learning so necessary.”
The participating centers are the CEIP Real, the CEIP Mediterranean, the CEE Reina Sofía, the CEIP Juan Caro, the CEIP León Solá, the CEIP Anselmo Pardo, the CEIP Spain, the CEIP Reyes Católica, the CEIP Hippodrome, the CEIP Pedro Estopiñán, the CEIP Constitution, the IES Rusadir, the CEIP Eduardo Morillas, the CEIP Gabriel Morales and the CEIP Veláquez.
These 15 centers in Melilla are part of the national and international network MUS-E, which is developed internationally in 13 countries of Europe, reaching almost 800,000 children and adolescents and in Spain in 12 Autonomous Communities and Cities 34,381 children benefit, of them more than 6,000 in Melilla.
Berbel, in statements to the media, explained that the MUS-e program is a prominent initiative within the educational field of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, whose objectives include the development of artistic teachings, with special emphasis on the educational system, the educational, social and cultural integration of disadvantaged children and young people through art as a tool for social transformation, the adoption of initiatives in favor of tolerance, dialogue and solidarity between peoples.
In addition, it also seeks the development of music and the arts in the broader sectors of the population or the realization of activities that promote work for coexistence and the encounter between cultures, among other objectives.
“The program is aimed at all types of students, although it is preferably applied in public centers where innovative measures are necessary to facilitate social cohesion, improve academic results and it is necessary to work transversally in multicultural environments respect and recognition of one’s cultural identity, the richness of diversity,” he said.
The program, he said, emphasizes “the importance of dialogue and interaction between different cultures as well as the development of creativity and imagination in the practice of artistic disciplines as the basis of education.”
The purpose of the MUS-E, said Juan Ángel Berbel, is the use of art in the school environment as a tool that favors social cohesion, and the educational and cultural inclusion of children, adolescents and young people, while preventing violence, racism and promoting tolerance and the encounter between different cultures, from the respect of diversity, “at the same time that it favors motivation, learning in another way and, therefore, it is a tool that can be effective in improving results,” he said.