УМЕТНИЧКЕ ПРАКСЕ У КОНТЕКСТУ НЕОЛИБЕРАЛНИХ ИДЕОЛОГИЈА У ОБРАЗОВНИМ ПОЛИТИКАМА: ПРИМЕР СРПСКОГ ПРЕДШКОЛСКОГ ВАСПИТАЊА И ОБРАЗОВАЊА
ART PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES: EXAMPLE OF SERBIAN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the tenets of the dominant contemporary political-economic system (so-called neoliberal capitalism) and various tendencies in preschool education, both globally and in Serbia, from the perspective of critical pedagogy, which promotes education as a process of creating active and free members of society. Pointing to the crucial importance that play has for cognitive, emotional and social development of children, and to important link between play and learning at preschool age, we discuss the impact that the ideology of neoliberal capitalism currently has on the marginalization of children's play, academicization of the preschool system and on the development of competitiveness and consumerism in children from the earliest age. We would therefore like to suggest certain artistic activities for preschoolers resembling the typical children’s play, such as the manual making of toys, presented from the perspective of integrative approach. This approach can be useful in many ways in combating negative educational tendencies: it promotes both learning as a creative process and play as central to the preschool education whilst significantly departing from the dominant values of consumer culture. We believe that such a creative and active approach to learning from the young age is the basis for establishing a new culture of learning and, consequently, a different educational system that will rest on true humanistic values rather than on legitimization of the capitalist system and its structure.

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