HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01

Start date: 1 January 2024; Duration: 36 months

Research leader on behalf of TK SZI: Zsuzsanna Árendás

Participating researchers: Vera Messing, Ágnes Kende, Zsuzsanna Vidra

The EXPECT_art project aims to identify the barriers to critical cultural literacy and to explore how art education can be used to integrate and strengthen critical cultural literacy in the education systems of European countries.

Objectives of the project:

1. to identify initiatives and barriers to critical cultural literacy in arts education through document analysis and field experiences.

2. to conduct case studies in schools and local communities in six countries using critical ethnography and community-based research methods. The aim is to make arts education more egalitarian and equitable through the implementation of critical cultural literacy.

3. to strengthen critical cultural literacy in formal and non-formal arts education, and to develop and disseminate new methods.

EXPECT_Art understands cultural literacy in terms of critical pedagogy and decolonisation theory. Through the implementation of the art activities, children, their teachers and members of the local community become participants in the research.

The research teams, in collaboration with their cultural partners, will implement the project in Danish, German, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish and German schools and in the local communities where the school is located.