Conceptualizando la enseñanza basada en las artes: Creatividad en el aula de lengua inglesa

Abstract

This monograph examines Arts-Based and English Language Teaching (ELT) to promote Creativity. The inquiry discusses conceptions and misconceptions about Arts-Based Teaching, which is the purposeful use of artistic skills, processes, and experiences to foster learning in non-artistic disciplines and domains. This qualitative action research study occurs at a Bogota school with 35-second grade boys and girls between 7-9 years old. The pedagogical intervention consists of ten sessions combining visual arts, music, and literature. Preliminary results indicate that Arts-Based Teaching enhances self-expression, creative outcomes, and English language usage. In the second cycle of the action research, we expect to find progress in creative dimensions, which deal with combinational, exploratory, and transformational thinking. The school will implement two syllabi and lesson plans that sustain the project to achieve a more holistic education.