Artivism and social conscience: Transforming teacher training from a sensibility standpoint

Mesías-Lema, José María Artivism and social conscience: Transforming teacher training from a sensibility standpoint. Comunicar, 2018, vol. 26, n. 57, pp. 19-28. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Alternative locations: https://doi.org/10.3916/C57-2018-02, https://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=detalles&numero=57&articulo=57-2018-02

English abstract

This article incorporates research involving artivist and pedagogical curatorships (200717) that were developed by contemporary artists, university professors, students from the Faculty of Education, practising teachers and students from nursery, elementary and secondary school. It intends to showcase a series of artistic research projects financed by public institutions, facing the challenge of transforming teacher training. These contemporary artivismbased projects have been able to break academic barriers and obsolete routines in teacher training. One of the results of this experimentation has been materialised in exhibitions at renowned museums and contemporary art centres. They have managed to expand teaching models beyond the classroom space, as the emergence of the collective and the educational interest in the commons. A/r/tography was used as a research methodology that unveils the three interconnected identities of the 'artist, researcher and teacher' as the person who, in his or her teaching practice, is capable of developing a creative practice with students through experimental processes in artistic research. A/r/tography generates a learning space where educational meanings can be broken. It is in this intermediate zone of intellectual incitement that curators propose artivist projects capable of generating tactics of proximity between two apparently separate fields: art and education.

Spanish abstract

Este artículo consiste en una investigación sobre comisariados de carácter artivista y pedagógico (200717) que ha sido desarrollada por artistas contemporáneos, profesores universitarios y estudiantes de la facultad de educación, docentes en activo y alumnado de infantil, primaria y secundaria. Pretende visibilizar una serie de proyectos de investigación artística financiados por instituciones públicas, con el reto de modificar la formación del profesorado. Uno de los resultados de esta experimentación se ha plasmado en exposiciones en museos y centros de arte contemporáneo de reconocido prestigio. Estos proyectos, basados en el artivismo contemporáneo, han conseguido romper las barreras académicas y las rutinas obsoletas en la formación del profesorado. Han conseguido expandir los modelos docentes más allá del espacio del aula, como emergencia de lo colectivo y del interés educativo en lo procomún. Se empleó la artografía como una metodología de investigación que desvela las tres identidades interconectadas del «artista, investigador y profesor», como aquella persona que, en su acción docente, es capaz de desarrollar una práctica creadora con su alumnado a través de procesos experimentales en la investigación artística. La artografía genera un espacio de aprendizaje para el quiebre de significados educativos. Es en esta zona intermedia de provocación intelectual, en donde los comisarios plantean proyectos artivistas capaces de generar tácticas de proximidad entre dos campos aparentemente separados, el del arte y la educación.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Artivism; social transformation; citizen empowerment; development art teachers; sensibility; curatorial practice; contemporary art; artography; Artivismo; transformación social; empoderamiento ciudadano; formación del profesorado; sensibilidad; comisariado artístico; arte contemporáneo; artografía
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication G. Industry, profession and education. G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education.
Depositing user:	Alex Ruiz
Date deposited:	25 Mar 2019 18:08
Last modified:	25 Mar 2019 18:08
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33825

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