Laurence Espinassy

How to practically help non-specialist teachers to implement various ways to better integrate art education in ordinary classroom practices: the French program AlfeArt, between research and resource

This paper explores the AlfeaRT project, a research network supported by a research initiative of the University of Lyon and the CNRS (French national science agency). AlfeArt means Arts, langages, formation, education, apprentissages: recherche et transfert (Arts, language, training, education, learning: research and transfer) and has two related objectives. The first consists of identifying and understanding the inseparable theoretical and practical issues encountered by teachers who seek to give arts education and education through the arts their rightful place by developing their intrinsic contribution in achieving key competencies (EU, Official Journal of the European Union 394:2006) and combining this with their extrinsic impact on non-art outcomes. This research project uses methods of field observations, video elicitations and interviews. The second objective, linked to the first, is to design a multi-user multimedia resource that can be used for research and teacher education purposes, based on the needs formulated in real settings by the stakeholders. In turn, both the process of designing this resource and the feedback resulting from its use will generate new research questions.