Towards Quality Education: Pedagogy of Death

Master in Death Studies at the University of La Laguna (2017), Master in Community Development and Participation at the University of the Basque Country (2007) and Postgraduate in Transmission of Basque Culture (2011) at Mondragon Unibertsitatea. She has experience in group dynamization and in death issues dissemination, and has launched the Hil Arte Bizi project for the empowerment of citizens and communities to face death. In 2018 she promoted the creation of the Hil Argi Elkartea association. This association offers, among other projects, “Gehiago Gara” initiative and “Bertso-ipuin bat zuretzat” for children who need palliative care. During the 2020-2021 academic year she collaborated in the Euskadi Irratia’s Faktoria radio program and created 41 chapters on topics related to death: https://hilargi.eus/irratian/

Nurse from the University of the Basque Country. Master in Palliative Care from the ICO-CCOMS (Catalan Institute of Oncology - WHO Collaborating Center) UB. Master in Counseling in Severe Losses, Trauma and Grief from the Institute of Integrative Relational Psychotherapy (IPIR Institute-BCN University). She graduated in Human Sciences from the University of Deusto. Diploma in Educational Sciences, from the Diocesan Institute of San Sebastián. Professor at the Institute of Integrative Relational Psychotherapy IPIR, continuing training program of the UB-BCN. Currently, she is Director and clinical-care manager of BIDEGIN, a support service for grief and advanced serious illness in Gipuzkoa. More information: https://bideginduelo.org

Graduate in Psychopedagogy from the University of the Basque Country. Diploma in Physical and Early Childhood Education. Four-year training in psychomotor skills. He offers Laughter Therapy workshops and experiential workshops on death and grief to people of different ages, through art. He is the father of two children and widower. Creator of the story "Azken galdera amari" in Basque and Spanish, he is currently presenting the story through singing and storytelling. More information: https://www.manexberistain.eus/

Pedagogue, Graduate in Philosophy and Educational Sciences (Section: Educational Sciences) (UCM). Master in School Psychology (UCM). Doctor in Education (UCM). He is a professor at the Department of Pedagogy at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has 2 six-year research periods (CNEAI). He has been coordinator of the Doctoral Program; Innovation and Teacher Training; and the Official Postgraduate Degree in Education of the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has been secretary and director of the magazine “Tendencias Pedagógicas”. Currently researching in these lines: training and awareness, change in educational change, errors and conditions of education, historical background of current teaching and possible teaching, inclusive university education, didactic methodology, didactics of creativity, Pedagogy of death and other radical topics, criticism and alternatives to Pedagogy, etc., from the “radical and inclusive approach to education and training.” He has received around twenty awards and recognitions for his academic, teaching and research career or for projects on which he has worked. More information: https://pedagogiadelamuerte.com/ https://radicaleinclusiva.com

Psychologist specializing in clinical psychology with private practice (clinical psychologist). Psychologist specialized in psychotherapy by the European Federation of Psychotherapy (EFPA). Professor at the University of the Basque Country teaching about the grieving process since the 2016/17 academic year in the Masters of General Health Psychology and, also, in the Master of Early Care. Psychologist at the Ekintza Ikastola from the 1998 academic year to the 2005 academic year. Trainer and advisor on the grieving process in different educational, health and social settings. Author of the book “Cómo superar el duelo: Hablar de la muerte nos acerca a la vida” Almuzara (2021). Supervisor of clinical cases, emergency interventions and professional self-care.

Teacher and tutor. She graduated in Teaching from the University of Mondragon. After being a teacher in different centres, she began working at the public school of Antzuola 12 years ago. She abandoned most of what she had learned until then and delved into the pedagogical model of the Antzuolako Herri Eskola. Another way of understanding education and the students, with another perspective. Trying to make the class become a magical world for the students every day.

Teacher and educational psychologist. She has twenty years of experience tutoring students of different stages and ages in teaching. She is currently a teacher at the Ikastola Aratz and in recent years she has been a tutor for the second cycle of Primary.

Teacher and tutor. She studied teaching and psychopedagogy at the University of Mondragon. She has completed her professional career in different educational centres and in the last four years she has worked at the public school of Antzuola. There she has had the opportunity to learn about the pedagogy of death and implement it in her daily work.

Doctor in Psychopedagogy and graduate in Pedagogy (UCM) and graduate in Psychology (UNIR). Master in Art Therapy and Artistic Education for Social Inclusion (UAM). She is a specialist in loss and grief in childhood and adolescence from the Mario Losantos Foundation. Since 2001, complementing her training with Art Therapy, she has been developing educational intervention programs on grief and loss. He has carried out numerous research projects, including that carried out at the Autonomous University of Madrid, R&D&I Research directed by Doctors Pablo Rodríguez and Agustín de la Herrán Gascón with the title “Innovación e inclusión de la muerte y la conciencia de finitud en el ámbito educativo formal”. She has published various articles, including, “La muerte en la construcción de la identidad personal. Intervenciones educativas” (2016), “Recursos educativos sobre la Pedagogía de la Muerte” (2021) or “Arteterapia y prevención del suicidio. Una revisión bibliográfica sobre las principales aportaciones de la Arteterapia en la prevención del suicidio en adolescentes” (2022).

Teacher, educational psychologist and neuropsychologist. She has twenty years of teaching experience, specifically in the field of special education. She is currently a teacher at the Ikastola Aratz and in recent years she is consolidating the subject of Emotional Intelligence at the Ikastola.