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Leisure and socio-cultural animation (courses for monitors, managers and monograph studies)

The Escola de l'Esplai from the Pere Tarrés Foundation, which offer all specialized training in the field of leisure education and socio-cultural education is the oldest centre in Spain, and its offer comprises courses for monitors of leisure activities for children and adolescents.Its activities started in 1960, and by the end of the same decade, first courses for monitors are offered. Since then, there has been a progressive increase of the training activities until now that, every year, there are more than 40 courses for monitors of leisure activities with more than 1000 participants. Since 1997/98 the training process for leisure monitors and manager is as follows.

Course of Introduction to Volunteer work
Definition: It is a training offer for anyone who can be interested in volunteer work or starting a process
Conditions: from 16 years on
Study period: 12 hours
Diploma of the Catalan Institute of Volunteers from the Generalitat de Catalunya
Curse for Monitors
Definition: Training action addressed to people who are already working as leisure animators -summer holidays for childhood, associative homes, schools,...- and who want to have a basic and global training.
Conditions: from 18 years on
Study period: 100 hours of courses+practices+refort
Diploma of the Youth General Secretary (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Course for Managers
Definition: training action addressed to monitors who have experience and interest in going deeply into the field of leisure education or to people who are working in leisure education institutions for childhood and adolescences
Conditions: Title of monitor required or having 23 years and experience.
Study period: 90 hours of courses + practices + refort and work
Diploma of the Youth General Secretary (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Courses of specialization for monitors
Definition: they are resources conceived in order to improve the monitors' training. this course offers a specialization in different areas and gives access to courses for Managers.
Conditions: from 18 years on
Study period: 80 hours
Specialization in different workshops and in the field of expressive languages, first aid (title of lifeguard), nature, adolescence and childhood.

This training process is completed throughout the Workshops of Leisure Techniques (5 hours workshops and techniques that are very active, done during the weekend) and monograph studies in the leisure area.

Monograph studies

Environmental Education

The Institute trains environmental educators for more than 30 years. All through these years, training is become more specialized according to the needs, as far as society was more concerned with the environment and the environmental education.

Nowadays, we develop specific training programmes with a professional aim, environmental educators are given a great offer which is conceived in order to fulfil their training needs .

The contents of this training include the environmental pedagogy, ecology, interaction man-environment, work in different fields (urban, rural, marine) equipments and resources of environmental education, natural and cultural national heritage, astronomy, geology...

The basic training we offer is officially approved by a Diploma of environmental Educator from the Catalan Institute of New Professions of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

PEE (Programmes of Environmental Education-Modules)
The PEE are divided in 4 modules from a hole of 160 hours of courses (16 credits):
Environmental pedagogy (40 hours)
Basic concepts of ecology (40 hours)
The human being and the environnement (40 hours)
Equipments and resources of Environmental Education (40 hours)

These 4 modules are completed with 50 hours of practices

Basic Education

Programmes of professional improvement

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