La importancia del arte como mediador del acceso al capital cultural en el proceso de enseñanza holístico, crítico y social: experiencias del aula de inglés

Abstract

Our journey through life results in a colorful tapestry, full of textures and languages of chiaroscuro hues of light and shades that speak of our interpretive performance ability to focus in that which is essential to face life. The need of achieving a purposeful learning thus results crucial in the understanding that it should go beyond the threshold of basics, extending and spreading its wings towards a thorough comprehension of the world that surrounds us by means of collaborative construction on new answers to new problems. The imperative need of generating critical thinking arises, evidenced in the intense inquisitive search reverted in research and in the eloquence of expressing ideas and feelings. The intricacy of this game enriches us, it is indeed a daily exercise of comparing, evaluating, justifying that gives place to understanding. The final target aimed by learning through art, is that of provoking a holistic transformation that unleashes eagerness as it produces the necessary knowledge to comprehend learning is endless, learning is a humanquality primal to existence. This is an invitation to reflect on seeking to expose the importance of art in the warp and weft by which fibers are interwoven in the power of access to cultural capital, holistic learning with a critical and social approach, all given in experiences of the English language learning.