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Freire and Visual Art Education: A Critical Postcolonial Approach

Freire and Visual Art Education: A Critical Postcolonial Approach

Vismara, Gisella

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Critical Education

General Education

ISBN10: 1350584495
ISBN13: 9781350584495
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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