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Description
This interinstitutional portuguese project called Inside out /Outside in: Correspondence of Graphic Diaries" - a Citizenship and Social Inclusion project, initiated in 2023, is a collaboration between the Polytechnic University of Leiria , Francisco Rodrigues Lobo High School , Leiria Prison Establishment, and OASIS- Support and Solidarity Organization for Social Integration. It aimes at fostering social reintegration and education through art, At the beginning the project involved students from various academic backgrounds and young inmates co-creating and corresponding graphic diaries. Recently there were integrated participants with intellectual and motor disabilities. The initiative is part of the National Arts Plan Observatory (PNA) and promotes correspondence between participants aged 16-80 through these logbooks incorporating drawings, paintings,text and collages. Evaluations show the project enhances motivation, empathy, and communication, serving also as a therapeutic tool. Preliminary exhibitions highlighted the inmates' creative expressions, including themes like identity, freedom, and family. This project emphasizes the role of art in citizenship education and community integration, Aligning with the principles of the Porto Santo Conference to extend artistic practices beyond institutional settings and engage marginalized communities, thus advocating for a broader societal impact of art education and art participatory practices.
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Dina Maria Soares,
works as Intermunicipal Coordinator in the National Plan for the Arts. Degree in Music; Master's Degree in Pedagogical Supervision and Training of Trainers from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra; specialized training in Special Education – Cognitive/motor domain. Teacher of Music Education in public and private schools and trainer in the area of Music Didactics and the implementation of Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility (DAC). She has collaborated as a trainer in the Aesthetic and Artistic Education Program (PEEA-DGE) since 2018, having performed the functions of PEEA Ambassador and later integrated the Artistic Education Team of the Directorate-General for Education (Music area). She is interested in research on the effects of the teaching/learning of Music on the development of academic skills in children and also in the investigation of the process of implementation of Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility through the Domains of Curricular Autonomy.
Fillipa Rodrigues
is Professor at the Visual Arts Department of the Leiria Polytechnic School of Education and Social Sciences since 2017, Filipa Rodrigues has teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Teacher Training, such as in Social Education graduate courses, Elementary and preschool education teaching training courses, MA course in Artistic Intervention and Animation, MA course in Special Education and MA in educational innovation. She is a researcher at CIIS - Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health_ the Catholic University of Lisbon, CIEBA; Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts and at CI&DEI - Center for Studies in Education and Innovation of the Polytechnic of Leiria. Filipa has a Ph.D. in Art Education from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and a Ph.D. in Cognition and Language from the Catholic University of Lisbon (ICS_UCP). She is an active member of APECV - Association of Teachers of Expression and Visual Communication and member of the Scientific Committee of "Imaginar" journal and co-editor of International Visual Literacy Association books (IVLA) of selected readings in visual arts. Filipa is part of Arte Central trainer team and provides art education training. Recently, in the postdoctoral program, she embarked on the field of visual anthropology and developed interview techniques based on the elicitation of visual material with Deaf participants in Cairo.
