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Teresa Eça, Angela Saldanha, Celia Ferreira, Raquel Balsa: Places to Learn: Isolate with Love

This article reports on a pilot study conducted in Portugal, by APECV (Association of Teachers of Expression and Visual Communication) developed in the year 2020 under the AMASS project: Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture. The study occurred during Covid19 Pandemic, where we saw enormous changes in the way we live and relate with others. APECV experiments of the pilot study were conducted worth a non profit organization called ASSOL at Oliveira de Frades, a rural area. The activities started during lockdown, forcing constant changes to the initial plans. In this presentation we will explain the choice of the population that collaboratively participated in this study (people with multiple disabilities), the context of work (covid19 pandemic in Portugal), the and arts based, participatory methodology, interdependence pedagogy and the role of poetry , metaphor and love in the work process.

This article describes a pilot experience, developed within the framework of the AMASS project: Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture, in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal, by APECV (Association of Teachers of Expression and Visual Communication) in 2020. The This experience has been developed during the isolated social stage resulting from the Covid19 pandemic, which forced constant changes in the initial plans. Next, we explain the choice of the population that participated collaboratively in this study (people with multiple disabilities), the work context (covid19 pandemic in Portugal), the participatory methodology based on the arts, the pedagogy of affections and the importance of poetry, metaphor and love in the work process.

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