Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018): RPEA

The current issue of the Revista Portuguesa de Educação Artística (Portuguese Journal of Art Education) has a particular characteristic in the history of this periodical. For the first time, we have chosen to create a special dossier dedicated to the theme "Borderless: Global Narratives in Art Education". This dossier is the result of a partnership with scientific journals from five countries (USA, Finland, Taiwan, Spain and the Czech Republic) and was created through InSEA (International Society for Education through Art), headed by Teresa Eça. This international partnership will be presented in July 2019 at an InSEA congress in Vancouver, Canada, in a communication by Ryan Shin, a North American professor at the University of Arizona. The articles that make up this volume of the RPEA will thus also focus on this presentation.

In the thematic dossier, we counted on the participation of Portuguese researchers (Carlos Valente, Rita Rodrigues, Margarida Moura and Maria João Alves), but also from Mexico (Patricia A. González-Moreno and Rubén Carrillo) and from Brazil (Rita Luciana Berti Bredariolli) .

All of these articles seek to answer current central questions, such as: Who are we in relation to other cultures and countries? What are the issues in art education that have great influence around the world? How does an art educator approach and teach with a narrative of "being global"?

This theme thus challenges us to look at the "other" as we reflect on the inside. In practice, it is believed here that in tackling global issues and other worldviews, we are also challenged to reflect on our already established viewpoints on and beyond local and regional history and knowledge.

At a time when the phenomenon of globalization is increasingly central to our daily lives and threatens the current cultural and artistic diversity, this dossier thus seeks to contribute to new approaches to this phenomenon. As educators in a global world, what are the current global issues, concerns, and educational problems?

Apart from this dossier, the current issue of the RPEA also has an investigation into the causes of school dropout in specialized artistic education, based on a case study about the Conservatório - Escola das Artes da Madeira.