Speakers
Description
We present the pilot course The Arts for Coexistence in a Sustainable Society, which was implemented at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana in 2023/2024. We focused on sustainable themes, the role of the arts in a society and (creative) active citizenship of young adults. We explored through artistic experiences: soundscape, the fine art lab, the creation of dance miniatures, drama, etc. We interacted with external creators, artists and researchers who co-presented their own views on coexistence and sustainability in modern society.We collected data on students' experiences through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Students completed questionnaires before and after the course and they also reflected on their experiences after each course. We found that students prefer learning through arts and that they found a safe place to express themselves (through different artistic fields), which is often denied to them in the traditional learning process.
CV
Nuša Jurjevič
is a researcher on the Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana and a freelance visual artist - illustrator. Her research field is integrating artistic and dance experiences into the learning process, while researching effects of those experiences on cognitive development, conceptual fields, creativity, social skills, etc. She is also interested in holistic artistic art experience and arts-based research (ABR) in education. She is currently working on her PhD.
Helena Korošec,
Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she teaches creative drama and puppetry in preschool, primary, and special education programmes. Her pedagogical and research work includes the role of puppets and drama in learning and teaching and in child/youth development. She leads puppetry and creative drama workshops for primary school and preschool teachers in Slovenia and abroad. She is a member of the international UNIMA commission “Puppets in Education and Therapy” and a member of IDEA – International Drama in Education Association.
Vesna Geršak,
Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches dance and creative movement in preschool, primary and special education programmes. Her pedagogical and research work includes dance pedagogy, embodied approaches, and the integration of the arts in the learning process. She was involved in the creation of a curriculum for creative dance in the education of future educators at the Faculty of Education. Since 2022 she has been leading a project on integration of learning through artistic experiences in STEM. Vesna is Chair Elect of Dance and the Child International (daCi).
