III PERIOD. ERASMUS+ IPEP JAÉN. New mobility: Prisons in Norway

This past Friday, September 15, once again, our classrooms opened their doors to, little by little, welcome the new students of the 23/24 academic year.

It has been two weeks of intense preparation of materials, classes, programs, groups of students and, in our IPEP JAÉN Adult School, the launch of the 2nd year of our Erasmus+ program which, as you will see, is beginning to bear fruit: more teachers will be attending the inmates in the school prison as of next week, with more tuition periods and personal meetings with the school counsellor, just to name but a few.

 

New teachers, new students, who, when passing through the entrance door, observe the Erasmus+ informative poster that is located just to their right, and that reads 'Rethinking our educational practices for adult students, penitentiary students and in juvenile centers', which has become the shortest and most colloquial and, as a reporter from Diario Jaén titled a few months ago, 'The Erasmus+ of prisons'.

Don Juan Antonio y Don Juan Manuel. @mmolpor

 
This coming weekend, two IPEP JAÉN ADULT SCHOOL teachers, each with more than 35 years of teaching experience, will leave for, hopefully, cold Norway, with the aim of completing a 1-week learning stay, which we usually call in English 'job shadowing'.

https://www.diariojaen.es/provincia/el-erasmus-de-las-carceles-CI8857370

Juan Manuel Barragán de la Rosa, Head of the English Department, together with our colleague Juan Antonio Martín Rodríguez, will undertake a new educational, cultural, social and personal adventure. Again, we are talking about 2 teachers with more than three decades of experience -and 6 educational laws!- behind them. It is important to note this fact because it only confirms the professional category of the teachers who live at IPEP JAÉN ADULT SCHOOL. They will be the ones who will tell us in their reflections what leads them to throw their weight around at this stage of their professional career, what it is about Erasmus+ that makes you want to continue learning new educational experiences at this point in life.
 
Ms Anne Marit Bodal awaits you, in the city of Asane, in Bergen, along with a formidable team of teachers who are in charge of organizing all the training in prisons in Norway. 
They have a good bullfighting bull. And learn.

Foto from Google docs. Thanks, mates.

They will work at Asane Vidaregáande Skule, with a really interesting work and cultural program, about which our emissaries will inform us in detail.
 
On the other hand, I can confirm that the rumors that practically everyone in the center has heard are true, referring to a future and close congress on education in prisons, about a training course for teachers who teach in penitentiary centers and 7 u 8 teachers who will come to Jaén, to our house, from February 6 to 10, 2024, which is already showing its promise.
Shortly, the program of activities for what we have called 'Erasmus+ IPEP JAÉN ADULT SCHOOL Week' will be made public, during which these activities will come to life beyond the papers.

Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Germany. These are the countries with which we have been working for more than a year. Experts in this very specific and peculiar field of 'Prison Education', will travel to the Holy Kingdom of Jaén to culminate the work of, at that time, two long and intense years. But we'll talk about that when the time comes.
 

https://www.asane.vgs.no

To these teaching experts, I am pleased to add people whom I do not know at all, beyond the screen of my old computer. They are people who, after reading the emails in which we explain what we are doing and what we want to achieve, have gotten down to work to help us, in an absolutely generous and free way, for the mere art of helping. I suppose also because they have recognized the potential of the IPEP JAÉN ADULT SCHOOL project.
 
They are men and women with many and fruitful years of experience in the world of 'prison education', experts in Erasmus+ programs to reform and improve these teachings, such as Ms Anne Costelloe, Mr Alan Smith and Mr McCorman, from Ireland, Mr Terje Manger, from Norway, Ms Dominique-Soufflard, from France or Don Andrés Ajo Lázaro, from Spain.

But, to all of them, we have to add the essential ones, teachers who work in the various educational administrations of Jaén and Seville, who, from the first day, opted for IPEP JAÉN ADULT SCHOOL and its project. Essentials like Don Domingo Ruiz, Director of the CEP-Teacher Training School of Jaén; Mrs. Patricia Huertas, Teacher Training Coordinator; Mrs. Juana Parras, Permanent Training Advisor; Mr. Pablo Jiménez Roldán, Head of the Human Resources Management Service of the Jaén Delegation; Don Juan Mesa, Director of the Jaén Provincial Prison; Don Francisco José Solano Rodríguez, Territorial Delegate of Educational Development and Vocational Training and University, Research and Innovation in Jaén.

And many more, which I leave for another time so as not to extend myself per saecula saeculorum.

Manuel Molina.

Erasmus+ IPEP JAÉN Coordinator.

 
P.S: This week I want to say hello and thank the readers in Russia, who I haven't seen in a while.
Большое время и приватность в Испании.
Bol'shoye spasibo i privet iz Ispanii.