Lucija Dežan

EXPECT_Art team recently gathered in Budapest for our first international conference “Community-Based Research, Decolonial Theory and Education.” The event was an amazing opportunity to reflect on our progress, exchange perspectives, and deepen our understanding of fieldwork challenges. We explored new ideas and strengthened our commitment to community-based and decolonial approaches in research, art and education. […]

We warmly invite you to the EXPECT_Art conference “Community-Based Research, Decolonial Theory and Education” taking place in Budapest on June 4 – 5, 2025. This is the first of two conferences organized by us to disseminate our project’s results and spark dialogue with other researchers and cultural institutions working in similar areas. The conference will

Esbrina research group of the University of Barcelona is organising an interesting webinar which aims to locate, observe and name the practices of arts education, education through the arts and the use of arts in education in two schools from Barcelona participating in our project. Our co-workers, Aurelio Castro Varela (principal investigator of the EXPECT_Art

Are you a master student (or are you going to be a master student in the Fall of 2025) and would you like to join the EXPECT_Art summer school?  The summer school is on cultural literacy in education with a focus on decolonizing the curriculum in arts education, education through arts and uses of arts

When we are on fieldwork, it is important that there is time for reflection and dialogue about what we experience. We do this at ethical retreats in the local teams. We are inviting you ta take a sneak peak at the Danish team, immersed in field notes and methodological considerations about their field visits. The

Recently, teachers who work at Professionshøjskolen Absalon were introduced to our project in an interactive way. During the workshop, Absalon’s researchers in the project, Rikke Brown and Pernille Welent Sørensen, joined the teachers in exploring some of the methods and concepts being developed in the project. The teachers encountered an art-based method developed by Institut

In our project, we are diving deep into the intersection of art education and participatory research. Currently, the German team from RPTU and Kinemathek Karlsruhe e.V. is spending time with a 4th-grade class, exploring film and storytelling together. Children chose a powerful film that touches upon bullying, violence, racism, displacement, belonging, gender roles, courage, winning,

We are pleased to have been offered an opportunity to present our project at the annual conference in Nordic Educational Research Association. The conference was held in March 2025 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. This year’s conference had the title Pedagogy of Hope: Gratitude, Diversity, and Sustainability in Education (more information about the conference