Abstract:
Childhood leisure time should not be viewed merely as a residual space for schooling, but rather as a vital territory for freedom and creation. Everyone who contributes to this territory possesses an experience that deserves a space for sharing and transmitting knowledge; thus, the practice of reflective and narrative writing by teachers, educators, and researchers constitutes a powerful methodological tool to document, legitimize, and understand the vividness of the educational act.
By transitioning from the purely musical field of the original book to the domain of the Plastic Arts, the Sonoridades project proposes to investigate the ‘intermediate place of experience,’ where seeing and plastic making come before words. The focus centers on how visual arts workshops in leisure-time contexts (such as CATLs) stimulate children’s agency, subjectivity, and holistic development.
Objectives:
- To map and analyze leisure-time practices oriented toward artistic expression in formal and non-formal education contexts.
- To develop an ecosystem of reflective writing (biographical narratives, logbooks, and dialogued essays) among the team of researchers and educators to document playful-expressive processes.
- To evaluate the impact of plastic arts on the child’s holistic development (cognitive, emotional, motor, and social dimensions), viewing the child as a competent author and actor.
- To counter the pressure of early schooling, affirming free time and creative play as fundamental childhood rights.