Teaching students with challenging behaviour using aesthetic and cultural means of communication

What is it about?

The life conflicts of pupils with behavioural disorders can be examined through their pictures. Conclusions can be drawn not only with regards to the psychological effects of art therapy, but also regarding a didactic orientated at life-circumstances. The pictures drawn by these pupils can give impulses for further aesthetic processes and become the basis for reflection and changes in behaviour. Environment-orientated didactics open the way to an active, but symbolic confrontation with manifest social conflicts. Teachers have to open their classrooms to the actual subcultural subjects and practices of their pupils. The pursuit of existential problems and the effort to find solutions can prepare the ground for new factual learning. In reference to social-philosophic theories, the culture-critical contents of these pictures should also be questioned. The images produced at the edge of society very often are pictures of a torn world.

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