Freire and Visual Art Education
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A01=Gisella Vismara
art education
Author_Gisella Vismara
Category=JNAM
conscientization
critical education
critical pedagogy
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forthcoming
Paulo Freire
pedagogy of the oppressed
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- ISBN 9781350584495
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book develops a new theory and practice of Freirean art literacy based on decolonial principles. It investigates the implementation of Freire’s ideas in the context of middle school visual arts education based on the author's research and experience of teaching in Italy and Europe and drawing on art works and theory from Brazil, Chile and Africa. Vismara offers an auto-ethnographic analysis of personal experiences of art teaching, educational tools, workshops, and strategies. She proposes an innovative and decolonial approach to school planning that starts from the students’ words and world. Artists’ words, youth street culture, imagination, and the iconography of mass images are presented throughout the book as examples of how educators can use visual art to develop the process of Freirean conscientization with their students. This book rediscovers and reinvents Freire’s ideas, applying his critical and political approach to visual arts literacy in new theoretical and practical ways.
Gisella Vismara is a Middle School Teacher based in Bologna, Italy. She holds a PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Studies from The Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milano, Italy.
