The Power of Children’s Artistic Experience for Education for Sustainability

This paper explores how art can express children’s generative power to transform the world. It’s argued that aesthetic experience can be used to affirm a sense of empowerment in children, leading to new forms of intentional agency and poetic construction for social change. A case study involving a kindergarten class will be described, where artistic activity is used to allow children to express their power to create a new imaginative symbolic game.