Loreto Senior Primary School
Active Art: Understanding and Enjoying Art in the Classroom and Beyond
The course takes a multidisciplinary approach to art and art psychology, introducing participants to different ways of understanding and teaching arts, dealing with the students’ creative process and taking the best of the positive impact of art-related activities on our wellbeing. It is based on a broad understanding of art and creativity across the lifespan and will draw on work in several disciplinary areas such as neuropsychology, pedagogy and sociology, to consider creativity at different ages and in different contexts and specifically to consider the artistic phenomenon as a combination of perspectives and situations (artist, viewer, artwork). This course also allowed the school to discover the positive impact of art related activities on our emotional well being and help engage their pupils in the psychology of art and its therapeutic qualities.