EDUSOC. Cultural education for adults in need of sociotherapeutic support
This book constitutes the intellectual output of the project “Cultural education for adults in need of sociotherapeutic support” (EDUSOC) which was implemented in 2019-2022, as part of the "Erasmus+" programme, by the following institutions and organisations representing five different countries: ZAMEK Culture Centre (Poznań | Poland), Stichting Anatta Foundation (Aalten | Netherlands), City Mine(d) (London | UK), Creative YouthLand (Egio | Greece), and Asociación Cultural Euroacción (Murcia | Spain).
With this project, we aimed to develop a basis for a cross-sectoral cultural education methodology to be used with individuals and groups in need of sociotherapeutic support. The cross-sectoral methodology incorporates elements of cultural education (including art therapy, and anti-discrimination, democratic, equality, and social education), psychotherapeutic support, and social care. We wanted to create innovative and modern categories to describe vulnerable groups, as well as people in crisis and dependency situations.
Because of the above, we have chosen teaching methods that require complex educational, psychotherapeutic, and social competencies. Furthermore, the choice of methods was closely linked to the need to train the educators, trainers, and facilitators from the above-mentioned organisations, to ensure that they could start testing said methods with different target groups in the future.
The definitions and categories proposed in the book are open to further reflection and analysis. The distinctions between educational and psychotherapeutic competencies in educational processes can serve as guideposts for development of cross-sectoral teams and application of different education methods in working with vulnerable groups.
The book in English is available for download at the link below:
Editing:
Ewelina Banaszek, Marta Kosińska
Production manager:
Magdalena Popławska
Proofreading:
Daria Nowicka
Graphic design and typesetting:
Grzegorz Myćka
Translation into English:
GROY Translations
Editing of the translated version:
Magdalena Kruk
Co-funded by the "Erasmus+" programme of the European Union.
The cover is composed of several parts. At the top, hand-made, underlined in black line, inscription: EDUSOC. Below it the publication title: Cultural education for adults in need of sociotherapeutic support. In the middle, profiles of human faces emerge from simple dashes, two distinct profiles are in black, one in blue and one in red. At the bottom are black smudges, with one eye visible among them.
