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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift".
Albert Einstein

The development of Homo Sapiens was due to his applied creative genius, that is, to his ability to exploit his artistic potential with an educational and productive purpose.
From Platon to Kant, Jung, and Bachelard, it has been admitted that creative imagination is a dynamic activity opening on superior cognitive functions and completing scientific thought. The capacity to see and understand the whole complexity of the world (in other words, human intelligence), would thus come from a close collaboration between Reason and Intuition.
Intuition pertains to the individual's unique existantiality, but it is more than an innate aptitude. The intuitive thought is linked to live history, family, and social and cultural history in which the subject has been immerged. In this sense, it can or cannot be developed specially through artistic practices.





What is intuition?





"To reach certain truth, there are no other ways opening to men but obvious intuition and necessary deduction".
Robert Descartes

Étymologically, intueor and intuitus are linked to the act and the attention of looking. The Latin word intuitio refers to the action of seeing an image in a mirror. Intuitus has the same meaning as the French "intuition", that is "to look inside".
In other words, intuition is a form of knowledge independent from reason, direct and immediate, and coming to the mind as a clear evidence. It is a pure intelligence exhausting its object when it percieves it which can be used as a reasoning foundation.





Teaching through artistic practices





Several elements contribute to make of the artistic operation, an important intervention medium

A regulating context:
The artistic practices develop and enhance child's intuitive thought. They direct his agressivity towards symbolical objects. They help him to become aware of those forces, both creative and destructive driving him, and to channel them positively and productively.
The artistic practices are adapted to each individual, and also favour group work and conflict management. In this sense, they offer optimal Learning and Assessment Situations (LAS)

A transversal learning
Artistic work calls both for body and mind. The activation of the senses creates for the child, a memory sharpening his sensibility and opening him to other forms of knowledge (specially to learned knowledges (??)) This non-dualist approach of teaching helps the child to mentally build the logical speech without any effort to 'think'.

A successful self-assessment
Self-assessment is essential for the individual's evolution, intervention tools and applied methods. The expressive essence of artistic practices offers a myriad of stimulating and socialising situations through which, the results and the impact of the pedagogic actions carried out can be completely and objectively assessed.





An answer to the socio-economical constraints





Cost of the educational and pedagogical equipment
The unequal access to educational and pedagogical equipment is a problem in many countries and/or in disadvantaged districts.
Artistic activity favours the development of cheap and/or virtually free teaching aids (live arts, danse, poetry).

The Language barrier
Many children are disadvantaged in their access to education and/or teaching because they cannot learn in the language they master best.
Because they are basically tangible (audible, visible...), artistic practices can be taught beyond speech. They thus constitute a universal learning medium that can be transmitted and understood by all such as it is.

Time factor
Disabled children and/or in a situation of handicap enjoy a much shorter teaching time than they would need.
The artistic operation sets the cognitive processes in motion more rapidly (particularly by developing attention and concentration). It favours the acquisition of maximum knowledges and skills in a minimum time.





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#01 - Décember 2007


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