TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative Connections
T2 - The power of contemporary art to explore European citizenship
AU - Richardson , Mary
AU - Hernández-Hernández , Fernando
AU - Hiltunen, Mirja
AU - Moura, Anabela
AU - Fulková, Marie
AU - King, Fiona
AU - Collins, Fiona M.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Across Europe, educational institutions are essential in assisting exploration of politics, culture and history, and the use of creative arts appears crucial to supporting this aim. This article reports on Creative Connections, a multi-partner research project that facilitated exchanges for young people to explore their European identities using online art galleries and blogging technologies. Their multimodal conversations revealed an openness to consider artworks as sources of knowledge and experience. Participants did not focus on the nationality of the artist, but concentrated on the relationship that the subject matter of the work had with their own concerns. Anxiety related to populism, exclusive nationalism, social inequality and new forms of labour appeared to impact young European citizens’ relationships and their perceptions of democracy.
AB - Across Europe, educational institutions are essential in assisting exploration of politics, culture and history, and the use of creative arts appears crucial to supporting this aim. This article reports on Creative Connections, a multi-partner research project that facilitated exchanges for young people to explore their European identities using online art galleries and blogging technologies. Their multimodal conversations revealed an openness to consider artworks as sources of knowledge and experience. Participants did not focus on the nationality of the artist, but concentrated on the relationship that the subject matter of the work had with their own concerns. Anxiety related to populism, exclusive nationalism, social inequality and new forms of labour appeared to impact young European citizens’ relationships and their perceptions of democracy.
KW - : education for citizenship, visual art education, civic competence, school collaborations, action research
KW - Action research
KW - Civic competence
KW - Education for citizenship
KW - School collaborations
KW - Visual art education
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U2 - 10.14324/LRE.18.2.10
DO - 10.14324/LRE.18.2.10
M3 - Article
SN - 1474-8479
VL - 18
SP - 281
EP - 298
JO - London Review of Education
JF - London Review of Education
IS - 2
ER -