Valeria Anfossi, Education through art. Creativity between enigma and disquiet

The relationship between teenage and creativity is one of the main interesting topic discussed by psychologists and educators throughout the last thirty years. The author, educationalist in charge of the Centre for Culture of Art and Creativity, underlines the importance of the relationship between expressive skills and development of teenagers’ identity, evoking Dewey’s educational meaning of experience and drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet. Involving students andteachers, the workshops within the Centre for Culture highlight the importance of experience through action, changing the meaning of an education only based on words.