Una experiencia de educación artística para la formación política de niños, niñas y adolescentes en condición de trabajo infantil

Abstract

The objective of this project is to design and implement experiences in artistic education that promote political formation in children and adolescents, through exercises of identification, creation and participation, generating constant interaction with external spaces such as museums, parks and representative places. of the city of Bogotá, as well as with collective creation processes. The exercise is carried out within the framework of a non-formal education process where reflection is made on the diversity and multiplicity of identities that converge in this space. In addition, the incidence of artistic experiences in the transformation of ways of living in groups and generating tools to resolve conflicts in a non-violent way inside and outside the training spaces through reflections, sensations and emotions in dialogue with the contexts. The results of the educational action research process show an exercise in raising children's awareness of their environment, a constant creative confidence was built that allowed them to generate positive appreciations of their works, the social skills to generate collective artistic expressions where they were heard all the participating voices, the recognition of some of the artistic and cultural possibilities of the city, as well as the plurality of spaces and ways of being in each one of them, the awareness of their condition of child labor allowed to show reflections and interests facing the individual, collective and social well-being expressed in their creations and in the dialogue in local and district participatory spaces where they built proposals in search of solutions and creation of opportunities for children.