Getting to know and meeting each other through art: how cinema and theatre act in the contemporary education

The support of art within an educational journey provides the opportunity for all the members of the educational action to meet each other, cooperating for the achievement of common goals. Through a critical reflection on the visual and performative arts in education, we aim to understand how they benefit both the context and the individual. At the same time, it is necessary to shed light on how this can enrich the educational-didactic action of all students and how it will influence the growth and development of future citizens. Particular attention is paid to upper secondary school students, to those who, in adolescence are early leavers from education and training. In this scenario, cinema and theatre education offers them the opportunity to develop creativity, empathy, critical thinking and all those transversal skills that allow achieving educational success, and at the same time promoting the well-being of each of them. The purpose of this work is therefore to obtain a critical vision about the benefits that the visual and performative arts can bring to the educational-relational sphere of each peculiar student, providing the right tools necessary to a real and complete development of each people. At the same time, the purpose of this dual educational-inclusive and alternative methodology is to provide essential tools for the awareness of the self and of the surrounding context, representing a perfect match between the emotional-relational sphere and the educational sphere, which is a fundamental claim to achieve the success of every educational activity.