Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): Education, education in the arts, cultures and cultural management

Theoretical-practical approaches, research and teaching creation at different educational levels.

The role of teachers, artist-teachers, researchers, creators, and managers; It has required a combination of practice (praxis) with teaching (even non-formal), highlighting actions both as creator(s) from the disciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. This approach integrates artistic production and teaching, which allows the artist to transmit his knowledge and experience directly to the students, encouraging their artistic and creative development, but at the same time, it has also allowed teachers who are not artists to be integrated into the dynamics of the creative formative.

Nicolas Bourriaud puts forward in his book "Relational Aesthetics" (1998) the idea that contemporary art is based on interaction and social relations. In this context, I propose a dialogue between the different ways of doing education with an emphasis on the creative and where it has been mainly sought to highlight the work of the "teaching artist" and how this approach can be applied to create collaborative artistic projects, where students actively participate and relate to their environment, which gives guidelines to the possible new role of art in the community or in the context of community production (Linkage).  Paulo Freire also proposes that the teacher is also an artist who has adopted this perspective by encouraging critical reflection on himself and society, encouraging students to question and analyze their own creative practice.

The present issue has received a series of diverse and insightful manuscripts, in which we have selected those that promote different practical reflections on the "art of teaching" and in which traditional ways of presenting information are questioned. This issue has also been curated to include the different morphologies in which the teaching artist can exercise his/her role in different contexts, such as art schools, universities, community workshops and educational programs. Its main objective is to provide quality art education, inspire students, promote the appreciation and understanding of the arts and why not, the generation of new audiences so lacking in our contemporaneity.

It has been based on investigating the different possibilities of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow in which the state of flow is described as an optimal experience of immersion and concentration in a creative activity where, for example, the teaching artist can use this theory for the design of activities and projects that allow students to experience flow in their creative process.  providing an environment conducive to artistic growth even with other branches of science, such as Project-Based Learning, as references that support the role of the educator. The issue collects different approaches and theories, according to their experience and knowledge, in order to foster the artistic growth of its students and promote the importance of the arts in society.

The objective of this exercise is to facilitate this platform for the presentation of scientific articles that analyze educational reforms, research practices, management, production and creation from, for  and through the arts, with proposals for reflections (essay), results of processes (formal article), narration of pedagogical experiences (class models, logs, archives, portfolios, etc.),  morphologies and case studies whose results show theoretical-practical approaches, research and teaching creation at different educational levels.

Joaquín Serrano Macías Mgtr.
Artist, cultural manager, teacher and researcher in arts.
Coordinator of the number
Universidad de las Artes - Ecuador