Abstract
In today’s world, challenged by digital innovation, migrations, inequalities, social injustices and geopolitical instability, we believe that engaging with the arts, especially in educational settings and lifelong learning, can encourage the respect for diversity and citizenship. Such engagement promotes civic participation at individual and collective levels, valuing identities as an emancipatory practice that contributes to the well-being and the maintenance of healthy democracies, grounded in universal values. We value the presence of arts in schools, as prevailed spaces, permeable and fertile for nurturing these processes. In our believe Cultural-Artistic Mediation, and their mediators, play a crucial role in fostering this relationship with the arts and between people. They can start dialogue, the embrace of dissent and provide safe environments to be, share and think. This interaction stimulates critical thinking, encourages reflection on social issues and strengthens civic engagement. We believe that experimentation and close engagement with transdisciplinary artistic practices in schools supported by, and conducive to an ecology of affections and empathy, enables the emergence of active-critical voices. Our approach combines theoretical and practice research, and the sharing of case studies. These initiatives reinforce understanding of cultural-artistic mediation as a process that awakens critical thinking, highlights urgent and divisive contemporary issues, and values cultural and subjective diversity through the arts, rather than as a neutral practice, demonstrating how participatory and co-created artistic experiences can stimulate engaged human beings who can contribute to more humane, inclusive, and democratic societies, from the school.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
ARTS,EDUCATION,CULTURAL-ARTISTIC MEDIATION,CITIZENSHIP,PARTICIPATION, DEMOCRATIC-VALUES
