Libro del artista en la didáctica del español y en las alfabetizaciones múltiples en contexto multilingüe y multicultural

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the potential of the arts in the integral development of people and as a transversal tool in the curriculum, its contribution to training in multiple literacies, to the understanding and use of different codes and its possibilities for approaching the learning of a new language.

The theoretical framework includes contributions from the postmodern discourse and its repercussions on arts education and educational epistemology. Interrelationships are established between the arts, album-books, the artist's book and cultural references exemplified, especially, in female artists and also in three male artists, who express in their work diversity, possibilities of individual and collective transformation, different codes, including the word and the alphabet, collaborative creations, self-portraits and appropriationism.

 Finally, a proposal is made for an interdisciplinary didactic intervention based on arts for teaching Spanish in a multicultural school context of Secondary Education: the creation of an artist's book related to the self-portrait. It is articulated in a language and creation project in which a book-album is read, its links with the arts are explored and it is nourished by proposals from the selected artists to capture knowledge and experiences in the final creation of the artist's book. As final considerations we can point out that the realisation of the project made it possible for the students to find sources and channels to develop their creativity, to represent aspects of their identity and experience, as well as to learn a new language and the intercultural encounter between people of different languages and cultures.