Towards neuro-inclusive arts education

How to organise neuro-inclusive art education, ensuring that multiple ways of knowing, creating and participating can coexist? The HKU professorship Critical Creative Pedagogies, in collaboration with APRIA, the ArtEZ Platform for Research Intervention of the Arts, dedicated a special journal to this question: ‘Towards neuro-inclusive arts education’, published in both an English and a Dutch version.

The journal is a special publication by APRIA, curated by professorship Fabiola Camuti and HKU researcher Judith Leest, published in collaboration with HKU Press.

Growing realisation of deeply-rooted inherited educational norms

The journal offers an exploration of the debates around neuro-inclusive art education. These debates are based on lived experience, institutional practice and a growing realisation of how deeply-rooted educational norms are shaped by assumptions about who can hold knowledge, how knowledge must be expressed, and what types of difference are welcomed, and which ones only tolerated.

Discourse, Stories, Artistic Experiments

The contributions in the journal are shaped by three interconnected parts: Discourse, Stories and Artistic Experiments. This structure reflects the conviction of the curators that neuro-inclusive arts education can not only be understood by theory alone, or practice alone, but stems from the relations between conceptual reflection, lived experience, and artistic research.

Conversation in motion

Together, the articles form a conversation in motion. The composers interpret the journal as an invitation, to educators, researchers, students and artists, to keep questioning these inherited norms. To better listen to whose knowledge is heard and whose is still missing and to look at art education as an ecology in which multiple ways of knowing, creating and participating can coexist.

The journal includes contributions by Fabiola Camuti, Judith Leest, Jonathan Evans MSSc, Dr Kirandeep Kaur, Dr Ileana Grama, Flann Naji, Janneke Berendsen, Claudia van den Hoeven, Jana Wijnen, Renske Tiemersma, Amy van der Steen, Johanna de Wekker, Nora, Milo van der Maaden and Tess Jones.

APRIA Journal issue #9 is online available via APRIA in Dutch and English. A printable PDF version will be available soon.

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