The Academic Events Group, 5th Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research,

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The case of class in Youth Educational Centre - Art in education
Kinga Anna Gajda

Last modified: 2015-12-07

Abstract


Education and therapy through art is increasingly often used to work with various groups of marginalized pupils. Henry Giroux defined this form of teaching as pedagogy for difference. Giroux postulates to create a kind of creative education which would make it possible to build a space for those belonging to what Gina Buijs calls the “subdued groups”. The new way of teaching should give the participants of the teaching process an opportunity to express themselves. Pupils (demoralized youth) in Youth Educational Centre (YEC) belong to such a group, one from the sphere of ”elsewhere”. The first aim of the paper is to present the results of working with pupils in YEC. During the classes, a pedagogical transformative drama was used. The second aim of this paper is to present the pedagogical transformative drama for youth and the ways of using it in working and rehabilitation with demoralized pupils.

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