Transforming Education for Democracy through Aesthetic and Embodied Learning, Responsive Pedagogies and Democracy-as-becoming

民主是一种活生生的经历。民主要蓬勃发展，就需要健康地扎根于人民作为相互联系、与其所在地区、社区和自然世界相联系的实体所参与的感情、意识和情感。民主不能仅仅通过认知学习或技术性互动技能来理解和实施。然而，民主教育很少注意培养民主的审美、情感和体现的根源。这是因为大多数民主教育所依据的学习理论忽略了学习的一个基本方面，即学习的审美和体现性质。这个项目的目标是弥补这一遗漏。该项目将：-设计一个创新的、基于证据的美学和具体化的教学框架，通过支持响应性、参与性教学法的相关实践指南（工具包）对民主教育实践产生影响-通过参与性行动研究进行测试；框架和指南在不同教育阶段和国家背景下的原型-完善框架和指南-传播和激活“开拓者用户”对教学框架和指南的利用。该项目的科学影响将通过开创性的跨学科研究来实现，该研究将展示美学和具身学习以及民主的响应式教学法如何促进“看到”和探索自我和他人的新方法，从而实现真正的民主关系，培养积极的民主公民身份和深化民主的倾向和能力。社会影响将通过新的教学方法来实现，这些方法将调动学习者和教育者的心灵和思想，增加在当地联系和发展的民主公民的能力，并加强挑战社会不公正、参与冲突和寻求相互理解的情感倾向。

Democracy is a lived experience. To flourish, democracy needs healthy roots in people’s engaged feelings, awareness and sensibilities as embodied beings connected with each other and their localities, communities and the natural world. Democracy cannot be understood and enacted simply through cognitive learning or technical interactive skills. Yet, education for democracy gives little attention to nurturing those aesthetic, affective and embodied roots of democracy. This is because the learning theory on which most education for democracy is based omits a fundamental dimension of learning – that is, the aesthetic and embodied nature of learning. The ambition of this project is to remedy this omission. The project will: - design an innovative, evidence-based aesthetic and embodied pedagogical framework which has an impact on the practice of education for democracy through associated guides to practice (toolkits) that support responsive, participatory pedagogies - test, through participatory action research, a prototype of the framework and guides in differing phases of education and national contexts - refine the framework and guides - disseminate and activate exploitation of the pedagogical framework and guides by ‘trailblazer users’. The project’s scientific impact will be achieved through groundbreaking, transdisciplinary research that shows how aesthetic and embodied learning and responsive pedagogies for democracy facilitate new ways of ‘seeing’ and exploring self and others, enabling truly democratic relations and nurturing predispositions and capabilities for active democratic citizenship and deepening democracy. Societal impact will be achieved through new pedagogical approaches that engage learners’ and educators’ hearts as well as minds, increase capacity for democratic citizenship that connects and evolves locally, and strengthen affective predispositions for challenging social injustices, engaging with conflict and seeking mutual understanding.