Education ministry organises poetry workshops for schools

Poetry workshops for high school students are organised for the second year by the education ministry.

The workshops under the title ‘A crack in the closed window, to become a life force’, are an innovative learning method of creative writing, “which is interwoven with the philosophy and implementation of the broader goals of Education,” a statement from the ministry said.

It added that they act as an educational asset which favours the sharing of ideas, thoughts and feelings and demonstrates the necessity for psycho-spiritual cultivation, balance and integration.

Poetry, the ministry said, constitutes a particular way of perceiving the concrete and the abstract, the visible and the invisible, defines emotion, redeems, comforts, consoles, exalts, pleases, beautifies, while educating.

Hence, children’s involvement with poetry and art in general gives them the opportunity to observe their surroundings, to receive stimuli, to create a healthy relationship with what surrounds them, to externalise all that is inherent in them, to cultivate critical and abstract thinking, aesthetic judgment, skills and abilities and, ultimately, to discover themselves.

The poetry workshops are conducted under the supervision of Chrysoula Alexandrou, Supervisor of Literature Courses and poet. The workshops are expected to be attended mainly by students of the second grade of high schools, lyceums, technical and vocational schools. For the implementation of the poetry workshop, the involvement and cooperation of teachers from other disciplines, such as visual arts or music, is recommended.

For further information contact the Inspector of Secondary Education, Philological Courses, Chrysoula Alexandrou on 22809576 or 25820879, via email at [email protected] or the teacher, Philologist Kalliopi Chatziflourentzou on 96710909 and via email at [email protected].