Freire and Visual Art Education

A Critical Postcolonial Approach

AvGisella Vismara,Peter Mayo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book develops a new theory and practice of Freirean art literacy based on decolonial principles. It investigates the implementation of Freire’s ideas in the context of middle school visual arts education based on the author's research and experience of teaching in Italy and Europe and drawing on art works and theory from Brazil, Chile and Africa. Vismara offers an auto-ethnographic analysis of personal experiences of art teaching, educational tools, workshops, and strategies. She proposes an innovative and decolonial approach to school planning that starts from the students’ words and world. Artists’ words, youth street culture, imagination, and the iconography of mass images are presented throughout the book as examples of how educators can use visual art to develop the process of Freirean conscientization with their students. This book rediscovers and reinvents Freire’s ideas, applying his critical and political approach to visual arts literacy in new theoretical and practical ways.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Critical Education
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350584495

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Pedagogisk teori och filosofi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Gisella Vismara is a visual art educator and school teacher. She earned her BA in Art, Music, and Entertainment (DAMS) and a specialization in Visual Art Teaching at Bologna University, Italy. She taught “Museum Education” at Brera Academy of Fine Arts (2006-2020). She collaborates with the Lucio Saffaro Foundation. She has written books and articles concerning school, art education, museum didactics, cinema, art criticism, and literature. In 2023, she received a Ph.D. in Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna concerning Freire and visual art teaching.

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor’s IntroductionIntroductionPart I: Critical Education as a Political Act1. Brazil: 1946-19642. Education for Critical Consciousness3. “Coding and Decoding” as Liberating Acts in Literacy Programs4. Chile: 1964-19695. The Political Development of “Conscientization” 6. Freire’s Chilean Experiences and the Language of Praxis 7. Africa: 1975-1976. The experience in Guinea Bissau 8. Letters from Guinea Bissau: The Influence of Amílcar Cabral’s Marxism9. Back at Home in Brazil: 1980-199710. How the Freirean Critical Language is Still RelevantPart II: Visual Art Class at Middle School11. Foreword: school and social emancipation 12. “Fabio Besta” School: Socio-Economic Context and Italian and European Policy Guidelines13. Diary of an Italian Experience (2014-2019) 14. Stories of Resistance: Personal Notes on my Students and Events15. Body and Emotions Part III: Re-Imagining Freire’s Approach for Visual Art Education16. A Freirean Path for Radical Visual Art Pedagogy17. Research Through Coding 18. Decoding for Thematization (Interpretation) 19. Problematization as Recombination (Transformation)20. Contemporary Visual Arts and Images through a Freirean and Decolonial Approach21. Black “Venus”: From the Contemporary Stereotype to the Imagery of Sarah Baartman 22. Body and Sexuality: Racializing Women in the Western Canonical Art 23. Body, Identity, and Colonial LegacyConclusion References Index