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motivation, and imagination.

by art education in the school context.

cal apparatus that rules our present world.

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experiences, which is one of the principle objectives of education at all levels. Transmedia narratives, because of the potential use of different distribution channels that are in fact not necessarily connected with screen media, offer a wide range

The barriers that once separated the different fields of art no longer exist. New technologies brought an entirely new range of experiences and possibilities. The dynamics of sociocultural changes affect artistic expression; debates about the cultural identity of minority groups, issues of national identity and gender, development of technological means, and the postmodern philosophy of fragmentation and plurality reshaped assumptions about education. These transformations affect the way we approach and learn about art. The traditional dimensions of learning are still present in our expectations and practices, but at the same time, we search for alternative concepts. Old paradigms based on technical skills, which prevailed when the subject found its way in school programs two centuries ago, encyclopedic knowledge, or mere self-expression are not responding to the demands of the society anymore. Sensorial images are present all around us, and we must respond to them, making decisions that involve creativity, originality, spatial visualization,

To give art education its proper place in general education, it should embrace far-reaching holistic forms and practices that can be critically examined through interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary methods associated with

The aesthetic dimension is a unique process of cognition that can be developed

The meaning of the presented research can be seen in a broad context: major changes in the perception and evaluation of events in the art world, which occur parallel to relevant changes in the school environment, rapid functional changes in the lives of today's students, and the responsibility of teachers as managers within the reproductive machine that school necessary still is in the system of the ideologi-

This chapter is a kind of synthesis of my work during the past years. I'm really grateful because I managed to complete our text entitled "The Potentials of Multisensory Emotional Arousal in Teaching and Learning Contexts using Transmedia Narratives in Education." The assignment could not be completed without the cooperation from colleagues who understood the importance of the challenge. I sincerely thank Barbara Tacar and Samo Amon for their critical ideas and encouragement in completing the research and Andrej Brumen Čop for letting me use his artworks within the tasks given to the students. Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to the students and teachers that participated in the project. With them I hope we will be able to promote changes in the way art education processes are conceived and implemented being our main goal to develop creativity. Without creativity, we cannot imagine the future life of our students.

contemporary educational strategies as transmedia narratives are.

of possibilities tying the real and the virtual in specific modes.

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Bea Tomšič Amon Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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