Education, Artistic Practices and Transformation for a Participatory Democracy: A Narrative Review Related to the Two Years of Covid-19 in Italy

Abstract

The need for restart actions, which has been marked by the crisis provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic, calls for a pedagogical reflection capable of finding the possible ways for a politics of humanity (Morin 2020) that could promote ecological transition and democracy re-generation processes aiming at an active responsible co-participation. Starting from here, this study raises the question about the use of artistic practices in educational contexts as a transformative education medium that can lead to the construction of a real participatory democracy. Working on a narrative review of the Italian scholarly literature written in the last two years about the topic of choice, the research group has selected a corpus of articles that has been read from a critical-analytical perspective. The discussion has highlighted how all art forms, as well as the cultural heritage they belong to, actively contribute to humanizing transformative processes in different formal and informal educational spaces.

Keywords

• Art
• Transformation
• Education
• Democracy
• Narrative review