Exploring and Educating Cultural Literacy Through Art (EXPECT_Art)

EXPECT_Art aims to improve the recognition of cultural diversity and promote cultural literacy in relation to the cultural expressions of minoritized and marginalized groups. While existing cultural literacy approaches are predominantly driven by hegemonic culture, the project goes beyond the state of the art by developing a critical, bottom-up approach to cultural literacy, driven by children and citizens at risk of marginalization. Hence, the project will produce knowledge on how to strengthen cultural literacy through arts in education, including best practices on how to further integrate it in both formal and non-formal settings.

Thus, the overall aim of the project is to identify current barriers and potentials for promoting critical cultural literacy through arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in education within and across different educational contexts in Europe, to generate and activate knowledge on how to enhance critical cultural literacy and understanding among European citizens. The objectives of the project are as follows:

1. Identification of existing measures and barriers for critical cultural literacy in arts education, education through arts, uses of arts in education at the national and local levels through secondary data analysis and the study of existing practices through fieldwork
2. Exploration of the impacts and potentials of decolonization of arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in education to foster critical cultural literacy, by conducting in-depth case studies of schools and local communities in six countries applying critical ethnography and community-based research (CBR) in Art Exploratoriums
3. Development and dissemination of interventions and workshop formats for enhancing critical cultural literacy through formal and informal arts education.

By achieving these objectives, the ambition of the project is to support social cohesion in European societies by promoting critical cultural literacy among children, youth and adults through a decolonization of arts education, education through arts and uses of arts in formal and informal educational settings within schools and in the interplay between schools and local communities.

 

Researchers

• Aurelio Castro (IP)
• Laura Malinverni
• Fernando Hernández
• Sandra Soler
• Ramón Parramón
• Joan Miquel Porquer
• Fernando Herraiz
• Xavier Giró Gràcia
• Juana M. Sancho Gil