Project description
Arts-based education for children at risk of poverty
For youth facing social exclusion, art often feels like an irrelevant leisure activity rather than a fundamental right. Additionally, their own creative endeavours may not be recognised as art. The EU-funded ALPHABETICA project aims to address this gap by bringing arts-based education to children and youth at risk of poverty or social exclusion. It will implement 12 pilot initiatives across seven European countries, focusing on community-driven artistic co-creation activities, including various school and out-of-school settings for children aged 3 to 18, as well as young people and adults. Informed by theories such as youth participatory action research and pedagogies, the project will assess the outcomes of arts-based education.
Objective
ALPHABETICA aims to provide effective solutions that allow children and young people at risk of poverty or social exclusion to access arts and arts-based education through co-creative participatory research actions. For some young people, access to ‘art’ is limited; often understood as a luxury or a leisure activity that may feel inaccessible or irrelevant. For others, their creative endeavours might not be recognised from their own perspective, as being ‘art’. ALPHABETICA will carry out 12 pilot actions across 7 European countries aimed at enhancing the transformative effect of active participation in community-driven artistic co-creation activities. Collectively, the research pilot actions cover a range of school settings and out-of-school community settings with children from 3 to 18, as well as young people and adults of various ages. The project is informed by a synthesis of theories of youth participatory action research, Theory of Change, pedagogies of care, love and enchantment, pedagogies of past, present and the imagined future, and the more-than-human approach. This conceptual framework invites a reflexive and in-depth exploration of children and young people’s complex everyday realities, while offering opportunities for creative self-expression and meaning-making, participation, skills-development, and relationship-building.
ALPHABETICA will take a transformative approach by:
• providing qualitative and quantitative data on attitudes towards and perceptions of arts by children, families, educators and policymakers,
• using participatory and caring approaches and pedagogies to provide an evidence-based assessment of the instrumental outcomes of arts-based education, their transformative impact, and their transferability to children and young people’s other life domains,
• taking and teaching a caring approach that through arts-based education will sustain a commitment to lifelong learning,
• providing evidence-based recommendations for policy action.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.3 - Social and Economic Transformations
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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40126 Bologna
Italy
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