dialoguing@rts: Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education
Chair(s): Jenssen, Runa Hestad (Nord University), Knigge, Jens (Nord University)
Discussant(s): Jenssen, Runa Hestad (Nord University), Knigge, Jens (Nord University)
Our world is amid crises. What is our responsibility and our ability to respond as art educational scholars to our precarious world? Maybe it is time to sit down, drink coffee together, and listen to each other? Then please, grab your coffee, join and brew some ideas in our dialoguing@rts round table session, on:
How can performing arts education reimagine cultural literacy as a dialogical practice to enhance social cohesion and inclusion in both formal and non-formal contexts?
dialoguing@rts is a Horizon Europe project, with 11 partners from Uganda, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Norway, and Serbia, which explores performing arts education contexts where increasing cultural literacy through music, dance and drama aims to promote social cohesion and inclusion. Our target groups comprise all ages and social positions, particularly in school systems and community arts initiatives. Building on Maine et al.’s (2019) reconceptualisation of cultural literacy as a dialogical practice, dialoguing@rts links this to the performing arts to reframe cultural literacy for contemporary, inclusive contexts.
As a starting point for the café conversation, we bring together researchers from dialoguing@rts who share insights from our discussions and preliminary findings, including: 1) a literature review, grounded in decolonial methodology, 2) analyses of international policies and curricula, 3) discussion findings around cultural literacy education, 4) case studies from arts educational practices with a focus on voices seldom heard, and 5) a digital playground providing a virtual storytelling space.
We then invite you to dialogue with us and share your ideas, challenges and experiences on how the arts can inspire social change in your community. Together, sharing coffee around the tables we hope to prompt, support, and question inclusive futures through the arts.
Presentations of the Symposium
dialoguing@rts: Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education
Ehninger, Julia1, Jenssen, Runa Hestad2, Knigge, Jens2, Krupp, Valerie2, Lämsä, Tiina3, Mortimer, Kristie2, Nokkala, Terhi3
1University of Wuppertal, 2Nord University, 3University of Jyväskylä
Our world is amid crises. What is our responsibility and our ability to respond as art educational scholars to our precarious world? Maybe it is time to sit down, drink coffee together, and listen to each other? Then please, grab your coffee, join and brew some ideas in our dialoguing@rts round table session, on:
How can performing arts education reimagine cultural literacy as a dialogical practice to enhance social cohesion and inclusion in both formal and non-formal contexts?
dialoguing@rts is a Horizon Europe project, with 11 partners from Uganda, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Norway, and Serbia, which explores performing arts education contexts where increasing cultural literacy through music, dance and drama aims to promote social cohesion and inclusion. Our target groups comprise all ages and social positions, particularly in school systems and community arts initiatives. Building on Maine et al.’s (2019) reconceptualisation of cultural literacy as a dialogical practice, dialoguing@rts links this to the performing arts to reframe cultural literacy for contemporary, inclusive contexts.
As a starting point for the café conversation, we bring together researchers from dialoguing@rts who share insights from our discussions and preliminary findings, including: 1) a literature review, grounded in decolonial methodology, 2) analyses of international policies and curricula, 3) discussion findings around cultural literacy education, 4) case studies from arts educational practices with a focus on voices seldom heard, and 5) a digital playground providing a virtual storytelling space.
We then invite you to dialogue with us and share your ideas, challenges and experiences on how the arts can inspire social change in your community. Together, sharing coffee around the tables we hope to prompt, support, and question inclusive futures through the arts.
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