Abstract
Given student inertia and depressed capacities in the Era of COVID-19, this study tracks the rollout of an inter- and trans-disciplinary arts, culture, and business program specifically designed to bolster student and community health through work in an already historically challenged 9-12 school. Using an open architecture program format and critical pedagogy coupled to trauma recovery and resilience frameworks, the URock! Program synthesizes select elements from the fields of individual, social, and cultural psychology; arts education, production, and performance; and fundamental tenets, standards, and generative themes of International Human Rights and Peace Education, showing a clear homology between each. The program presents a synergized tool that identifies, addresses, engages, utilizes, and then supercedes diminished personal and social capacities. Core to our conversation will be the role of culture, the assertion that art-making is a universal human instinct, the role of trauma in life, and the natural, imperative interplay between the intrapsychic and intersocial in the resulting project process and production - preserving individual location and contribution - providing the key experiential touchstone event of inter-relationality, so necessary to the personal and public health.
Presenters
Peter Di GennaroDirector, Education, A New Heroism: International Human Rights & Peace Education, Connecticut, United States
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KEYWORDS
ARTS,CULTURE,PSYCHOLOGY,PEDAGOGY,SCHOOLS,COVID,DEPRESSION,TRAUMA
