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

民主是一种鲜活的体验。为了蓬勃发展，民主需要在人们参与的情感、意识和情感中健康地扎根，因为它们是相互联系的具体存在，与他们的地方、社区和自然世界联系在一起。民主不能仅仅通过认知学习或技术互动技能来理解和实施。然而，民主教育很少注意培养那些审美的、情感的和体现的民主之根。这是因为大多数民主教育所基于的学习理论忽略了学习的一个基本方面--即学习的审美性和具体化。这个项目的雄心就是弥补这一疏忽。该项目将：-设计一个创新的、以证据为基础的美学和具体化的教学框架，通过相关的实践指南(工具包)对民主教育的实践产生影响--通过参与性行动研究，在教育的不同阶段和国家情况下测试框架的原型和指南；--完善框架和指南--传播和推动“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突破性的跨学科研究来实现，这些研究表明，审美化和具体化的学习和民主回应教学如何促进‘看到’和探索自我和他人的新方式，实现真正的民主关系，培养积极的民主公民和深化民主的倾向和能力。将通过新的教学方法实现社会影响，这些方法将调动学习者和教育工作者的心灵和思想，提高连接和发展当地的民主公民的能力，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.