Feelings about School in Gifted and Non-Gifted Children: What Are the Effects of a Fine Art Program in Primary School?

There is a consensus about the benefits of an artistic activity on health and well-being. In France, a gifted child is considered a special needs student for whom enrichment is advocated. Therefore, this study examines the extent to which a whole-class art enrichment program delivered to both gifted and non-gifted children benefits both student populations with respect to their school well-being. The art program was implemented in classrooms over the course of an entire school year (during the COVID-19 pandemic). The self-report French version of the Feelings About School scale (i.e., FAS) was completed in three steps (i.e., before, mid-program, and after) by a sample of gifted and non-gifted children benefiting from the program. The FAS scores of those students were also compared at the end of the school year with those of students who did not participate in the art program. Despite the pandemic context that requires caution in drawing definite conclusions, this study supports that (i) the fine arts practice is a lever of development, (ii) the sanitary situation was detrimental for elementary school students, and (iii) better adaptive capacities were exhibited by gifted children in this context. © 2023 by the authors.

Conversation between Pandemics through Art. Social Imaginaries of Hiv/Aids and Covid-19, Care and Affections

This research presents a study of the artistic practices that treat the pandemics social imaginaries of HIV and COVID-19. The main target is analyzing the main artistic strategies that have been implemented in relationship with the social's representation of the illness from the perspective of the cares and the affections having in mind the connections and frictions that have been stablished with the pandemic's contexts. It's considered that, during the first decades of the HIV pandemic takes place, from the artistic point of view, emancipatory attempts that had an important impact in the social and the artistic and it study if some of this strategy has been present in the artistic practices about COVID-19 taking care of the evolution and the transformations experimented in the actual context. A qualitative methodology has been implemented, with an inductive-interpretive focus and it starts with a study of the multiple cases that allows to determine a series of categories that works like a cartography mode from which offers an analysis of the studied practices. The research manifests the potential of art for contradict some of the bases of the social imaginary of the infective illness pandemic in the contemporary and for building a tool of action in the social, in collaboration with other disciplines.