How to Practically Help Non-Specialist Teachers to Implement Various Ways to Better Integrate Art Education in Ordinary Classroom Practices: The French Program AlféArt, Between Research and Resource

Abstract

In 2010, the University of Amsterdam ran a series of lectures, discussion panels and research workshops grouped together under the banner Visual Culture and National Identity: A Symposium. Without a discernible sense of irony, the organizers observed that to a modernist, art should be "autonomous, independent and separate from political and social developments". They conceded, however, that in reality, "nationalism and art and art history have always been closely intertwined" (art & education, 2010). Few political developments in Europe in the years that followed would have given the authors reason to