PEA Pedagogy Ecology and the Arts
POLIS, PEACE, POWER... PRAXIS
PEA is a small conference that brings together research and practices in learning in dialogue in particular between the German-speaking and Italian-speaking fields but open to international and intercultural experiences.
The focus is on pedagogy in an ecological dimension as an interconnection between theory and practice,
cognition and living environment, in which the arts can be an effective synthesis.
Within this framework the focus of the first edition was on the concept of “polis”.
To define and construct a polis, the concept of ecology and the arts-based research draw a set
where individual and collective learning as well as specific contexts are interrelated as a system.
In the second edition with the topic "peace" we want to redraw the boundaries to actively create places and projects for peace. During the PEA conference we aim to stimulate a shared reflection on peace in a very broad sense, including topics such as nonviolence, desirable polis, better future, creative conflict resolution, peaceful coexistence, hope, dialogue, resilience, conviviality, activism, resistance, and personal as well as shared responsibility.
After its first three years of incubation — Polis, Peace, and Power — the PEA – Pedagogy Ecology and the Arts conference
enters a new phase of shared reflection with its fourth edition, Praxis.
Conceived and developed by an organizing team composed of Evi Agostini, Sabina Langer, Denis Francesconi, and Nazario Zambaldi, PEA was originally envisioned not simply as an annual conference,
but as the foundation for an ongoing research community grounded in practice.
With Praxis, this intention becomes more explicit: the conference opens itself to a participatory and collective process of inquiry,
where pedagogy, ecology, and the arts are approached as intertwined fields of thought and action.
Rather than offering fixed answers or disciplinary boundaries, PEA seeks to cultivate spaces for experimentation, dialogue,
and situated forms of knowledge capable of generating new relationships between artistic practice,
education, and ecological imagination.
Scientific Committee:
Evi Agostini, Lavinia Bianchi, Siegfried Baur, Lorenzo Bernini, Michele Cagol, Gianpaolo Chiriacò, Giulia Cantaluppi, Francesco Cappa,
Federico Faloppa, Denis Francesconi, Ines Giunta, Marijana Grandits, Paolo Landri, Sabina Langer, Peter Mayo, Elena Monicelli,
Pat Patfoort, Hans Karl Peterlini, Robert Simon, Cuno Tarfusser, Beate Weyland, Nazario Zambaldi
PEA Book
"power"
Ecologie della formazione
Series directed by Alessandro Ferrante, Andrea Galimberti, Maria Benedetta Gambacorti-Passerini, Cristina Palmieri
Scientific Committee:
Michel Alhadeff-Jones (Columbia University), Giuseppe Annacontini (Università di Foggia), Camilla Barbanti (Università di Milano Statale), Pierangelo Barone (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Gert Biesta (Maynooth University), Michele Cagol (Libera Università di Bolzano), Gabriella Calvano (Università di Bari), Mauro Ceruti (IULM), Gabriella D’Aprile (Università di Catania), Jessica de Maeyer (Universiteit Gent), Silvia Demozzi (Università di Bologna), Liliana Dozza (Libera Università di Bolzano), Maurizio Fabbri (Università di Bologna), Laura Formenti (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Rosa Gallelli (Università di Bari), Ines Giunta (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Monica Guerra (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Paolo Landri (CNR-IRPPS), Elena Marescotti (Università di Ferrara), Luigina Mortari (Università di Verona), Manuela Palma (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Monica Parricchi (Libera Università di Bolzano), Franca Pinto Minerva (Università di Foggia), Antonia Chiara Scardicchio (Università di Bari), Giulia Schiavone (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Raffaella Strongoli (Università di Catania),
Beate Weyland (Università di Bolzano), Davide Zoletto (Università di Udine).
Double blind peer review.
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