From caos to creation at Dana: Doodling art for pre-service teachers emotional-educational sustainability

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https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.extra10.9992

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Art Education, Teacher Training, Emotional Wellbeing, Doodling Art, LifeComp, Dana

Abstract

This article presents research in arts education developed after the DANA climate catastrophe in the Valencian Community (2024), which focuses on the use of doodling art as a psycho-pedagogical tool for future teachers. The intervention was carried out with 66 students from the Primary Education Degree programme at the University of Valencia, integrating the art of doodling as a means of emotional expression, reflection and self-regulation in a crisis context. The study uses the European LifeComp framework on personal, social and learning key competences, broken down into nine competences. Using a qualitative approach, the students' graphic and narrative works were analysed to investigate whether the teaching proposal promotes these competences and revealed a significant impact on competences such as communication, self-regulation and flexibility. The results show that doodling art promotes emotional management, critical thinking and autonomous learning, positioning itself as an accessible, therapeutic and replicable technique in educational contexts. Experience shows that art can help to bring order to chaos, offering future teachers tools to deal with traumatic situations from a pedagogically and emotionally sustainable perspective.

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  • Nuria Sánchez-León, Universitat de València

    Dr Nuria Sánchez-León: Assistant Professor in the Art Teaching Unit of the Faculty of Teacher Training at the University of Valencia since 2023. Previously associated with the Science Education Department at the University of Zaragoza. As a researcher, she has an interdisciplinary profile, exploring the relationships between the arts and sciences, particularly between eco-social literacy and arts education for sustainability. She is co-director of the Multidisciplinary Education for Gender Equality (EMIG) collection at the Universitat Politécnica de València (UPV) and has coordinated the Diploma of Specialisation in Sustainability, Ecological Ethics and Environmental Education (DESEEEA, UPV), where she has been teaching since 2018.

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2025-11-01

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Sánchez-León, N., Portalés Raga, M. and Juárez Ramos, V. (2025) “From caos to creation at Dana: Doodling art for pre-service teachers emotional-educational sustainability”, Tercio Creciente, (extra10), pp. 7–22. doi:10.17561/rtc.extra10.9992.