Abstract

AVILA VALDES, Noemí. Art workshops with hospitalized teeangers: A communication experience. Educere [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.45, pp.449-456. ISSN 1316-4910.

Over the last few years, the Plastic Expression Didactics Department at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain has been developing a project called “Heal you Project”. Among the main goals of the project is the “Design and application of creative and artistic activities with hospitalized teenagers.” After several experiences since 2006 in this context, the following proposal is presented developed at the teen’s Psychiatric Unit at Madrid’s Gregorio Marañón Hospital, working with teenagers through contemporary artists, fostering communicational processes apart from artistic skills.

Keywords : artistic education; creativity; teenagers; hospitals.

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