Art Education
Teaching stories for learning.
As an Art Teacher at the University of Valencia (Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovations), my classes and research lines are focused on slow, sensory, playful and embodied Arts-based Multiliteracies.
My classroom is a garden…
A respectful rehearsal space for cultivating multimodal narratives using mind-body and a myriad of techniques inspired by the art of picturebooks, illustrators, writers and author-illustrators.
Beyond a pedagogical resource, ‘the book’ as an art form becomes a sort of museum (Nodelman, 2018) and a key narrative ‘agent’ to boost creativity, critical thinking and sensitivity entangling a ‘storywise learning’ methodology coined as EMLA (Portalés-Raga and Bellver-Morant, 2025).
Beyond a pedagogical resource, ‘the book’ as an art form becomes a sort of museum (Nodelman, 2018) and a key narrative ‘agent’ to boost creativity, critical thinking and sensitivity entangling a ‘storywise learning’ methodology coined as EMLA (Portalés-Raga and Bellver-Morant, 2025).
