¿Arte urbano antes de los tres años? La ciudad, el street art y la educación infantil

Abstract

In recent years the educational field has been increasingly interested in street art and the benefits of this artistic expression at a pedagogical level. Most street art experiences in the field of education have been carried out in the primary and secondary educational stages. This article analyzes the pedagogical potential of street art in the early childhood education stage. First, a theoretical-descriptive perspective pretends to understand the link between city and childhood, the role of urban art and its pedagogical power in early childhood education. Second, the article addresses, from a practical-exploratory perspective, the analysis of the themes of street art in a Catalan city, depending on its situation (areas with public art promoted by municipal initiatives, or art on the early childhood schools’ facades). Finally, it is elaborated a proposal to implement street art from the end of the first cycle of the stage of early childhood education. The activities, based on four axes derived from previous research and studies, are organized into two parts that correspond to the two ways of approaching street art: from observation and from creation, in both cases accompanied by processes of reflection.