Platonic solids workshop. Taking the project model from architecture to high-school.

Abstract

The Chilean high-school education model is based on outdated practices and strategies unable to bring to classrooms what has been called holistic education, with the ensuring impact on students’ learning and emotions. This research is aimed at discussing the impact of an innovative teaching practice: the Platonic Solids Workshop, which takes to the high-school level a methodology typical of architecture –project-based learning– coupled with a holistic approach to education that aims at developing the different realms of an individual and a complex and non-segmented approach to knowledge. Relevant to the development of this holistic training proposal are bio-tools, understood as teaching and therapy tools that involve integrating the different aspects of being human: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.