Abstract
This article is the result of interchanging experiences, the Id@rt experience, among artists, educators and students from different countries and contexts that share the concept of identity as a subject matter for the artistic and educational research processes. We followed a methodological framework that combines the visual culture art education, as an approach to make and interpret the visual reality, and the blended-learning, as a tool to transform and improve the learning process. We proposed the Id@rt experience to teacher in training at the Granada University (Spain), and to student of communication and art education course at the Bologna Fine Arts Academy (Italy). The aim of this project is to develop a closer look at contemporary art, promote creativity and foster the social skills promoting new ways of communication and creation. Through this project we propose to create a synergy between the use of traditional art education methods and the new-technologies based-methods (ICT and e-learning). The evaluation results of the Id@rt experience, obtained from our observation together with focus-groups and open-end questionnaires, indicate that the participants increased their creativity and developed their social/communicative competencies, experiencing art and new technology languages and discovering the creative identity of the contemporary artist and of themselves. Projects like Id@rt experience pave the way for a new understanding and teaching of the art education and new interpretations of the contemporary art and the visual culture.
Highlights
The information and communication technology (ICT) and the visual culture are two important elements of the social life that influence and form the professional and personal identity
Among the different paths of the three contemporary artists contained in the Id@rt experience, we selected the path proposed by Alessandra Tesi that is an artist who lives and works in France
The Id@rt experience, as b-learning project/path based on visual-culture art education, promoted the use of both traditional art education methods and the newtechnologies based-methods (ICT and e-learning) providing the synergy and integration of these two different methods that are normally used as exclusive
Summary
The information and communication technology (ICT) and the visual culture are two important elements of the social life that influence and form the professional and personal identity. Other art educators categorically reject the use of new technologies and methodologies because they believe that the use of fine arts traditional tools and methodologies are more appropriate to stimulate students' creativity and they consider that face-to-face practice experience promotes the development of important socioemotional skills [5]. In order to explore the efficiency and validity of this integration, we carried out a research consisting of the creation and presentation of an educational proposal together with the interpretation of associate results that we present in this paper This educational proposal was named Id@rt experience merging the key themes of the project that are the identity, the use of the Internet and new technologies, the art and the experience. Id@rt experience has been submitted to Spanish teachers in training and Italian fine arts students and consists of an art education e-learning project that uses an on-line platform but provides a practical, faceto-face aesthetic experience as well
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