The EXPECT_Art summer school: Critical, cultural literacy, decolonization and (arts) education is open for registration. It will take place between 6 and 11 of July at the Central European University in Budapest (Hungary). This summer school is offered as part of the EXPECT_Art research project and is free of charge. We welcome students (both BA and MA) from education and the humanities from EXPECT_Art-partner countries, i.e. Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Spain and students from EPICUR-universities.
The summer school introduces students to the study of cultural literacy from decolonial and community-based perspectives in education with a particular, yet not exclusive focus on arts education in different European contexts.
To promote cultural literacy trough education is often considered an important basis for an inclusive and prosperous society. Historically, there has been a tendency to nurture cultural literacy in education through top-down approaches, starting from the assumption that children and youth to various degree lack cultural literacy and must be introduces to majority forms of cultural forms in schools. However, a bottom-up approach to cultural literacy assumes that children and youth always already are cultural literate and that the development of (arts) education that promotes cultural literacy must take the multimodal and aesthetic modes of expression of children and youth as its starting point.
The summer school introduces to what cultural literacy, decoloniality and community-based research are. Furthermore, the summer school stimulates students to explore the arts practices of children and youth in marginalized positions to promote cultural literacy by taking questions of power, and the institutional, historical, social, political and cultural context into account. Finally, the summer school introduces to arts-based and participatory research methodologies which can be applied in studies on other topics beyond the summer school.
Upon completing of the summer school, a four-hour online session in the end of August, and the exam, students earn 5 ECTS.