Conference topics

1. Art education and digitalisation: the role of new technologies in art education

• Dance, visual arts, music, storytelling and drama education, children's culture and digital media: educational opportunities and challenges
• Virtual reality, film and media in the aesthetic experience
• Digitisation of artistic products and their presentation on online platforms
• Innovative art education and museum education methods, research, training and platforms with technological integration
• Link between AI and human creativity

2. Creative thinking: development and evaluation

• Assessment of the impacts of arts education (PISA 2022)
• Assessment of creative thinking in national and international practice
• The integrated development of divergent and complex problem-solving thinking and creativity as part of the ability cluster
• Performance assessment in arts education: objective and subjective aspects

3. Arts and mental health

• Dance, music and visual arts, drama and children's culture for stress management and emotional health
• The power of narrative in arts education
• The impact of movement interventions: body awareness and prevention
• Community arts programmes: interactive and inclusive practices
• Physical and visual environment

4. Acceptance and artistic education

• Understanding neurodiversity in art education: methodologies and good practices
• Education through art and equal opportunities
• Inclusiveness, integration of children and young people with special needs
• Cultural diversity, group cultures, generations in the artistic experience

5. Performativity and pedagogy: psychodrama, sociodrama, drama pedagogy, theatre education and drama for children and students

• Psychodrama in dance education: self-awareness and personal development
• Sociodrama as a tool for community building in art education
• Drama pedagogical methods in dance education: developing emotional intelligence
• Dance theatre education programmes
• National and international trends in children and student drama

6. Interdisciplinarity and education through art

• Movement, visual culture, music, film, multimedia, children's literature and literary education: interactive, creative methods
• Children’s culture and dance: specific pedagogical tools
• Play and the culture of play
• Historical aspects of art education

7. Arts-based participatory research in education

• Arts-based research methods: the role of dance, visual culture, music, drama, multimedia and animation in research
• Participatory research in art education: community involvement and social impact
• Art education in science