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Visual and Plastic Arts as an Educational Method in Schools

Author(s): Snezhanka Stoyanova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: creativity; visual arts; school education; self-awareness; psychotherapy; Waldorf pedagogy; suggestology; art therapy; analytic psychology; psychobiology.

Summary/Abstract: The author studies the process of creativity in the visual arts as a method of achieving balance and self-awareness, and awakening the student’s inner potential in the context of the education of children in schools, and of their parents. Basic principles of creativity are taught as a psychotherapeutic method. Various approaches are considered as ways to overcome the crisis and implement reform in school education; these approaches include: Waldorf pedagogy, suggestology, art therapy, analytic psychology, psychobiology, the psychological impact of colour and the aesthetic environment. The author discusses the process of inner exploration through art as a means of studying the laws of life, achieving self-awareness and integration, building integrity and well-being. In this process, the modeling of materials turns into an act of modeling human individuality.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 95-104
  • Page Count: 10