Biology of fear and the learning of institutionalized children
Interactions with animals
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biology of fear, children in institutions, interactions with animals, neuro learning, host institutionAbstract
In this document we propose to describe an educational intervention in a Host Institution, in which we implemented a set of activities that allowed a group of twelve children to interact with non-human animals. Of the various activities carried out, we will expose two of them, which are called: "Attracting birds to the garden of the Host Institution" and "Tingling".
With the presentation of these two activities, we intend to demonstrate a way to promote diverse learning in institutionalized children with high emotional and experiential vulnerability, basing our options on studies of neurolearning, the biology of fear, and interactions with animals.
Throughout the educational intervention, our purpose was to enable children to have moments of learning and well-being, in which the "human" could develop through the "non-human" and that they could establish neuronal connections competing with previous connections in which fear was prevalent.
This educational intervention was developed in the scope of a partnership between the University of Algarve and the referred Host Institution, in which a group of twelve children interacted with non-human animals, particularly birds and ants.
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