Recycling Stories: Community Art and Deliberative Democracy Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement

Authors

  • Bruno de Oliveira Jayme Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba
  • Erika Germanos University of Victoria
  • Brent Franco Saccucci Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5186-9310

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40556

Keywords:

arts-based research, participatory action research, socially-engaged art

Abstract

How can we create meaningful spaces of engagement for citizens who work in the recycling industry in Brazil who suffer marginalization? What can we learn from the Brazilian experience of opening spaces of engagement? Seeking answers for these questions, we entered the journey of participatory action and arts–based research and developed a series of visual arts workshops and public exhibits in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In this context, the objective of this study is to explore the diverse role of the arts in not just creating spaces for engagement that are inherently deliberatively democratic, but also holding the space for dialogue, knowledge construction and mobilization, and civic engagement.

Author Biographies

Bruno de Oliveira Jayme, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba

Bruno de Oliveira Jayme is a Brazilian visual artist and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. His research interests and curiosities are around creative pedagogies, arts–based and environmental adult education, and how street art can be a pedagogical tool for possible dreams.

Erika Germanos, University of Victoria

Erika Germanos has a Ph.D. in Education. She has a bachelor's in Biological Sciences and a Masters of Science degree. She has taught for training teachers since 2006. Her interests include teachers' initial and continuous education; teachers' professional development. She also has experience in environmental education based on Paulo Freire's theory. 

Brent Franco Saccucci, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta

Brent Franco Saccucci (he/they) recently completed his MA at OISE/University of Toronto and is now an instructor and PhD student in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, where they research multiliteracies, research-creation, and cultural studies. He is also Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, a local drag queen, and stand-up comedian.

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Published

27-06-2020

How to Cite

de Oliveira Jayme, B., Germanos, E., & Saccucci, B. F. (2020). Recycling Stories: Community Art and Deliberative Democracy Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18(1), 135–136. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40556

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Re-Searching and Re-Thinking

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