Passila, AnneOwens, Allan2019-03-192019-03-192018-11-08Passila, A., & Owens, A. (2018). Through the lens of Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy- Collective imagining of democratic forms of being. In Vapalahti, K. & Suikkanen-Malin, T. (Eds.), The Viewpoints on arts-based methods in social, youth, health and therapeutic work (pp. 24-30). Kouvola: XAMK.9789523441163http://hdl.handle.net/10034/622009This is an Accepted Manuscript of a chapter published by Xamk Kehittää in The Viewpoints on arts-based methods in social, youth, health and therapeutic work, (Eds). Kati Vapalahti and Tuija Suikkanen-Malin. The book is an outcome of the co-operation between South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences and St. Petersburg State Institute of Psychology and Social Work.This chapter focuses on Kaleidoscopic Pedagogy as a conceptual frame of arts based method applied to a discussion and collective imagining of democratic forms of being with young people, artists, art pedagogues and researchers. The background of KP is a problem identified by one of the founding theorist of critical pedagogy Henry A. Giroux (2014a), which is that democracy has been sullied as a concept – as a ´service` - and no longer offers the promise of emancipation (Giroux, 2014b). The discussion, therefore, is about understandings of democracy: what it might look like and how it would feel to be in it according to young people themselves.enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Kaleidoscopic pedagogyCollective ImaginingDemocracyPretext DramaBook chapter