Accompanying Yezidi youth leaders and young people through artistic biography in Iraq Accompagnement d’animateurs et de jeunes yézidis par la biographie artistique en Irak En Fr

Résumé Fr

The field of education in emergencies has developed from the need for humanitarian responses to the needs of populations and, more importantly, from field practices. Arts activities are increasingly used in these humanitarian responses (Boateng, 2017). They are said to contribute to the acquisition of interdisciplinary skills and the well-being of the youth who benefit from them (Hassan et al., 2015; Kerlan, 2013; Tyrer and Fazel, 2014). The objective of the research project presented is to accompany socio-cultural facilitators through the creation and testing of an artistic biography then understood as a didactic device (CdPE, 2019). The aim is to transform the practices of socio-cultural facilitators so that they promote the resilience and empowerment of young Yezidis with whom they work in a camp in northern Iraq. Artistic biography (or life writing) thus aims at the narration through art, of individual and collective life experiences through themes centered on culture, identities and environments (spaces) through creative processes (Morais, 2012). Our paper presents our theoretical and methodological framework, in particular the steps of cooperative didactic engineering in the field of art education, and identifies the issues at stake in terms of the expected outcomes for the development of resilience and empowerment of the research participants.