1.3.4 Methodological Material_Chapter 4: "Foundations For An Inclusive Educational Artmaking"

EDUCATIONAL ART-THERAPY

Redirecting the main aim of education into a child’s personality development means the change of education nature: the education has to be changed from an individual's education into cultural development, the world’s image and the formation of humans in it (Cahn, 2009). Particularly culture is a certain link which relates personality’s social and genetic features and makes a person the member of a civilized society. Thereby, education is understood as a cultural phenomenon which is the process defined as a pathway into yourself and a person perceives his/her purpose of life.

Art as the oldest human’s creative, emotional, feelings and notions self-expression means revealing conceivable and inconceivable human’s inner and outer reality. In this connection, art becomes a very appreciative space for implementing the aims of psychotherapy. Although the therapeutic aims are not strange there exist many examples when art therapy is applied more as psychic harmonization help or as solvation of social conflicts in human’s education or for other purposes (Dapkute, 2003, p.8).