Lecture and discussion: Anna-Maria Schirmer.
Art can be diversity: diversity-promoting lessons
Art lessons can be an ideal place to promote individual ways of understanding and shaping the world and to learn a tolerant approach to diversity. Art and art-related activities offer special experiential spaces to not only learn about diverse perspectives in theory, but also to experience them. However, just as the field of art is permeated by mechanisms of exclusion, the school system also seems to be determined by these. It can therefore by no means be assumed that didactic action in art lessons will automatically do justice to the heterogeneity of children and young people. Diversity-sensitive or even inclusive teaching is based on the non-judgemental recognition of people's differences. This is in clear contrast to a widespread concept of achievement that focuses on selection.
In her presentation, Anna-Maria Schirmer will give an insight into art lessons that take diversity into account and promote diversity. Using concrete examples, she will focus on artistic developmental processes that do not correspond to the norm and present didactics based on differentiation and personalization.
Personal details:
Anna-Maria Schirmer, seminar leader for the subject of art at grammar schools and co-editor of the specialist journal Kunst+Unterricht; studied art and special education, doctorate on the subject of Erkenntnis-Gestalten, several years of experience with integrative art teaching.
Date
28.01.2025, 6 pm
Room 3220, Südbau (Kunsthochschule Kassel)