SPORE PEDAGOGIJE, ETIKA BRIGE I UMETNOST KAO VID OTPORA NEOLIBERALIZACIJI OBRAZOVANJA

Neoliberalism is an ideology that structures all spheres of life, including education, which according to Freire, is ideological by predominance. Neoliberalization of education implies that programs at all educational levels take on elements of market logic: efficiency, economy, quantification, measurability, standardization, speed. In order to bring education back into humanistic frameworks, it is necessary to redefine educational practices structured in this way. Some of the answers to this problem are slow pedagogies and the ethics of care. As opposed to the dominant pedagogies that have turned the educational process into a market game, slow pedagogies and ethics of care are a call to reject this market logic in education. They call for slowing down, reflection, deepening, questioning, dialogue, compassion, being and staying in the present. We will show how this can work in practice on the example of art in preschool education. To make this possible, it is necessary to understand art and artistic processes as a form of inquiry — as a coexistence between humans, other beings, and the environment, as a relationship of care and empathy, rather than as production focused primarily on creating a finished product. We will explain how art in preschool can become a space of exploration, knowledge, reflection, growth, empathy, etc., and how in this way a humanistic ethos can be developed in children from an early age.