Art and/as open education

A collaborative action with refugee artists

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ID12712876
AuthorsAnna Apostolidou (0000-0001-8793-5308, Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume22
Issue4
Pages345-367
Publication date2023-02-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14740222231156807
OpenAlexW4321105923
LanguageEN
References cited53

The article illustrates the potential of engaged arts-based pedagogies in higher education with respect to integration interventions for young refugees in Europe. It discusses the conception and implementation of the collaborative initiative “Find Refuge in Art”, which was part of the research Project PRESS at the Hellenic Open University. This example shows how artistic synergy may become an integral part of research design, framing both awareness raising and open education in the backdrop of intercultural exchange. The initiative encouraged the co-production of artistic work from pairs of artists with refugee and non-refugee background and culminated in an exhibition with over 75 participating artists. Challenging the victimizing conceptualizations of refugee art as a primarily trauma-centered representation of displacement, the article invites us to consider questions of agency and inclusion in terms of mutual recognition and to widen participation as a means of fostering transformative intercultural learning and epistemic justice in universities

Art · Exhibition · Framing (construction · Inclusion (mineral · Pedagogy · Political science · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Engineering · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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