This article is the result of an inter-university, international and transdisciplinary experience carried out at the University of Lleida with the collaboration of the University of Zaragoza in the academic year 2021-2022, in which other groups and institutions also participated, on Young Africa: art and diaspora. Two seminars were held, a theoretical-practical one with students of the Degree in Social Education on the black-African artistic object as a reference of cultural pluralism and another international seminar with three papers on Art, resilience and rehumanisation, which dealt with music, dance and orality as a resilient therapy in African and Afrodiasporic traditions; an initiative on Top Manta, which is the brand of the commercial project of the Sindicato Mantero and, finally, a practical proposal to intervene from the artistic context in groups at risk, i.e. three proposals combined with an exhibition on Black African masks entitled "Learning to see the invisible".
Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi youth and authored by an Iraqi émigré. It is thus a valuable alternative to American fiction on the conflict and its aftermath. From this premise, this article explores how the myth of the trauma hero, which has whitewashed the American invasion in redemptive terms, is here replaced by a more nuanced discourse. Mbembe's necropolitics-i.e. the "subjugation of life to the power of death" (2003: 39)-helps explain the story of Jawad, the corpse washer of the title, and of Iraq as one of dehumanization, wounding and spatialization inflicted by Western supremacy and alleged 'rationality.' The novel challenges Western necropolitics in two main ways: Iraqi stereotypes are questioned, especially their identification with terrorism and martyrdom. On the other hand, surrealism and gothic elements help the protagonist and his country to sublimate the trauma derived from American neocolonial politics.
Resumen: Las familias son uno de los pilares que conforman la comunidad educativa. Su participación en la Educación ha ido adquiriendo cada vez una mayor dimensión, reconociéndose no sólo a través de las legislaciones, incluida la propia Constitución española de 1978, sino también con las numerosas y diferentes medidas para lograr esa participación de las familias en la institución escolar. Sin embargo, la participación es un fenómeno complejo que muestra diversos aspectos en la relación familia-escuela, desde los cauces más formales e institucionales (AMPAs, Consejos Escolares, etc.) hasta otros de carácter informal como los movimientos sociales; desde aquellos que son de carácter individual (tutorías) a los de carácter colectivo (proyectos escolares). Además, la participación también depende no sólo del papel y la implicación que adopten las familias, sino del resto de la comunidad educativa, especialmente equipos directivos y docentes, determinantes en este proceso. El presente artículo analiza cómo han evolucionado los discursos sobre la participación partiendo de un trabajo de campo de carácter cualitativo.Palabras clave: Familias, Escuela, Participación, Educación. Abstract: Families are one of the pillars that compose the educational community. Their participation in Education has been acquiring a greater dimension, as it is being recognized not only by means of legislation, including the 1978 Spanish Constitution itself, but also thanks to the many different measures to achieve family involvement in the educational institution. However, participation is a complex phenomenon that shows various aspects of family-school relationship, from the most formal and institutional ways (AMPAs, School councils, etc.) to other informal ways such as social movements; from those of individual nature (personalized tutoring) to other which have a collective character (school projects). Besides, participation also depends not only on the role and involvement of families, but also on the rest of the educational community, especially school management teams and teachers, which are crucial for this process. This paper discusses how discourses focusing on participation have evolved, implementing qualitative field research.
Resumen: Este texto da cuenta del proyecto “Infancias mediadas”, un proyecto mixto de Investigación-acción y de Investigación educativa basada en las artes, llevado a cabo en la Facultad de Educación Psicología y Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Lleida. Su objetivo es incorporar los discursos y las mediaciones tecnológicas como contenidos educativos y, en concreto, explorar la utilización de narrativas visuales y de imágenes mediáticas en educación artística, en los diferentes grados de formación del profesorado de la FEPTS. Para ello indaga en las narrativas visuales realizadas por el alumnado de la Facultad: imágenes autobiográficas –en relación a sus propias experiencias mediáticas infantiles– y, así mismo, en la creación de contra-discursos visuales entorno al imaginario mediático. Se analiza la interconexión entre imágenes y textos, entre la creación y la interpretación, entre explorar las imágenes y mediaciones de la propia infancia y la interrelación con otras imágenes y tiempos. La investigación muestra las dificultades de pensar sobre nuestros roles como consumidoras de cultura visual en relación con la construcción de las identidades docentes; y constata la importancia de cuestionar algunos mitos y discursos sobre “la infancia”, a fin de asumir responsabilidad educativa hacia las diferentes infancias. En unos tiempos de hipervisibilidad mediática, esta investigación propone otras formas de construcción crítica de identidades docentes, relacionando las prácticas artísticas, las visualidades y las pedagogías críticas. Palabras clave: Artes visuales; educación; formación del profesorado; investigación artística; influencias mediáticas; pedagogías críticas. Abstract: This text recounts the project “Mediated childhoods”, a mixed action-research and arts-based educational research project, conducted at the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Social Work at the University of Lleida. Its aim is to incorporate technological discourses and mediations as educational content and, in particular, to explore the use of visual narratives and media images in art education in the various teacher training degrees of the FEPTS. To do so, it investigates the visual narratives created by the Faculty’s students: autobiographical images –in relation to their own childhood media experiences– and, at the same time, the creation of visual counter-discourses on the media imaginary. The interconnection between images and texts, between creation and interpretation, between exploring the images and mediations of one’s own childhood and the interrelationship with other images and times is analysed. The investigation reveals the difficulties of thinking about our roles as consumers of visual culture in relation to the construction of teacher identities; it demonstrates the importance of questioning certain myths and discourses about “childhood”, in order to take educational responsibility for different childhoods. In times of media hypervisibility, this investigation proposes other forms of critical construction of teacher identities, relating artistic practices, visual studies and critical pedagogies. Keywords: visual arts; education; teacher training; arts research; media influences; critical pedagogies.
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