Conveners
SESSION 1: PANELS
- There are no conveners in this block
SESSION 1: Visual Arts & Education
- Kleopatra Moursela
SESSION 1: Arts & Inclusion
- Betty Giannouli (NKUA)
SESSION 1: Theatre & Social Issues
- Marios Koukounaras-Liagkis
SESSION 1: Dance & Education
- Kostantinos Karteroliotis
SESSION 1: Music Education & Technology
- James Humberstone (University of Sydney)
This presentation explores the Art-Reach program embedded in various art education units at Monash University. Showcasing our participatory arts-based educational approach, through multi-sensorial learning and ways we are learning-to-learn-with each other and Country, it simultaneously questions taken-for-granted approaches to art education. Valuing diversity and inclusion as foundational the...
Arts education in Australia exists in the space between forces of, at best, benign indifference, curriculum marginalisation and active exclusion. This panel examines an agenda for change in current contexts. Each speaker draws on their life autobiography in arts education to stimulate action in others. What have been the enablers and constraints in your own development as an arts educator? We...
The study, utilizing drama-based pedagogy, investigated whether a specially designed Drama Pedagogy program for the processing of issues related to the national and religious anniversary celebrations of the Greek school could promote the principles of interculturality, cultivating the intercultural ability of the students at the Primary school. The program, implemented with 6th-grade students,...
This presentation will explore the pedagogical benefits of Negotiated Drawing, an interactive method of teaching drawing to children. The findings presented in this paper are the result of its application to several primary and preschool Greek classes the last ten years. This action based research soon brought to prominence art educationโs potential to encourage not only artistic competence,...
What would happen if we approached teaching as choreography? The extended notion of choreography proposes an expanded practice defined as organization, structure and protocol that can appear with many contents. This approach brings the embodied dimension of all these forms to the foreground, leaving the possibility for artistic practices to enrich the educational practice in general. The...
This ongoing Sino-International research, a collaboration between China, the UK, Nepal, and Ireland, investigates the impact of hybrid Project-Based Learning (PBL) on engaging children and families in music education and cultural understanding. It aims to train intergenerational digital skills within a structured project framework, integrating digital tools. Initial results indicate that...
This paper explores the correlations between theatre and drama-based pedagogy and the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC). Our study examines the efficacy of educational theatre practices in developing the competences outlined by RFCDC, hence evaluating their transformative potential. Through the utilisation of innovative theatrical and dramatic techniques,...
The present study is about to represent the results of an implementation of a STEAM program which encompasses activities planned out by engineering design. In particular, students of secondary school are supposed to design and construct a piece of Jean Tinguelyโs artห the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely represents 20th centuryโs kinetic art. Pieces of art that Tinguely made were full of Science,...
This article proposes a reflection on the transformative value of socially and politically engaged art created in non-formal contexts (Helguera, 2011; Trione, 2022), focusing on the emancipatory and caring potential of these artistic practices from a pedagogical-educational perspective.The experience of the transfeminist performances of the international collective Our Voice will be analysed...
The World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) summit conference provided a platform for interdisciplinary discussions, converging on the intersection of education, technology, and nature as a catalyst for positive transformation through the arts. This extended abstract delves into the multifaceted connections between cultural literacy, personal development, environmental awareness, and the...
This paper examines the teaching-learning methods and practices that take place during the โopen dance classesโ in the public urban space of the Municipality of Hellinikon-Argyroupolis (Greece), as part of the โDance in the Squareโ project. Data collection is based on participant observation during ethnographic research. Analysis and interpretation of data involve the use of the conceptual...
Community Music (CM) practices have long existed, offering an alternative to standard music education. This approach focuses on the development of musical and social skills of its participants. An example of such a community music project is El Sistema. El Sistema has succeeded in Venezuela, inspiring the development of similar philosophy programs worldwide and in Greece with El Sistema...
The European-funded project "Critical Arts Education for Sustainable Societies" (CARE/SS) (2022-2024) explores the role of arts in fostering sustainable societies and active citizenship among future generations. This presentation briefly summarises the background and initiatives of a postgraduate distance learning course in Visual Arts Education offered in the context of CARE/SS. The courseโs...
Considered to be an enigmatic obscure figure in Greek history of art, Giannoulis Chalepas (1851-1938), was one of the most important sculptors in Greece. His creations jumped from Classicism and Romanticism to Realism and Symbolism. However, in the last phases of his artistic production (1902-1938) he made Modern Art, while he was constantly returning to the thematic of his youth. The...
How can we turn the teachers into active citizens, into catalysators in their local communities, that can use performative arts and the power of creativity and experiential learning to combat xenophobia and to promote respect for human rights? How can we provide them with the necessary resources and tools for the promotion of tolerance, solidarity and peaceful co-existence between the local...
This paper investigates the potentialities of working with Soundscape Composition (SC) with young children. SC was introduced and developed by Truax (2019) in the context of the World Soundscape Project, but has not yet been fully approached by Music Education practice and research. In this paper I will present the results of an action research study developed in a nursery school in Portugal...
The Lab for Aesthetic Education (LAeB - Labor รsthetische Bildung) is a new research facility at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna. The aim is to explore and practically implement the methodology of Education through Arts in cross-curricular areas of teacher training. Two European research projects, SLIDE and ACIIS, are currently located in the LAeB. The projects focus on the...
Dance, and especially Greek traditional dance, as a subject with cognitive and kinesthetic content, constitutes -in an educational context-, a powerful tool for motor education and learning involved in literacy practices. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critical thinking skills of students taught Greek traditional dance with the morphological method of teaching, in the light of dance...
The Pythagorean-Platonic view of harmony can be linked to art education in several ways. From a South African perspective, the value of interconnectedness and transformative learning environments are important in addressing deep-seated social and economic inequalities in different communities. Working with higher education art student-teachers in two communities; a childrenโs home and township...
Students of the Experimental School of โฆโฆโฆ.. studied the work of Antoni Gaudi, which in turn informed their own creations in paper and in clay. They created paper trencadis, and begun creating clay trencadis, by creating their own decorative clay tiles and by learning the technique of mosaic in order to break and reassemble their own tiles. Following that, and having studied the styles and art...
This study delves into the integration of the Hero's Journey into the university curriculum, focusing on the course "Hero's Journey: Topics of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Arts". The researcher, a course participant, advocates for its wider adoption, emphasizing its transformative impact on self-awareness and mindfulness through a unique "ritual" process design. The study draws on the...
This research project aims to analyze and systematize the model of pedagogical monitoring and supervision in the field of artistic (performative) education implemented in the educational establishments of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, focusing specifically on the 1st Cycle of Basic Education. With a duration of 42 years, this model has experienced advancements, setbacks, and adaptations...
In the global context, the recognition of the pivotal role played by out-of-school arts education in fostering holistic development has gained widespread acknowledgment. In China, a great number of students learn artistic skills and knowledge by taking part in out-of-school education; and some of them take lessons in Youth Palaces which are government-funded public institutions. This study...
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...
How can we create a world that is more about caring for each other? In their theory of fragility, Yener Bayramoฤlu and Maria do Mar Castro Varela develop examples and stories of how we can think differently about the interactions between people, nature and technology. I would like to make this theory fruitful for art education through a hermeneutic approach. I would then like to outline...
