Beyond Words: Engaging Young Children and Families in Gallery Education at Tate Liverpool, is a three‐year ethnographic case study that explores what happens when preschool children, parents and nursery practitioners from a Sure Start Children’s Centre, visit Tate to participate in an extended series of gallery visits and workshops with artists. This article explores the potential value and tensions of those creative and cultural experiences, particularly for young children and families, by critically examining different perspectives, discourses and possible constructs of effective creative engagement. This research contributes to the debate on ways of engaging children and families from marginalised communities in cultural visits and creative practices by opening up existing discussions on poverty, matters of inclusion, negative stereotypes and dominant educational discourses. Insights from parents are included and their feelings are related to the ‘symbolic violence’ often felt by parents and children throughout their education from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This research explores how Tate Liverpool developed relationships with a diverse family audience, through developing relationships with children and adults over repeated visits, as an important way for offering continuity and a sense of belonging, particularly for families who may not traditionally visit art galleries. In doing so, it makes a case for galleries to be considered as democratic, inclusive and rhizomatic learning environments, where artist educators act as ‘dreamkeepers’. Dreamkeepers can offer the space for extra emotional, social and intellectual support needed for healing from educational injury and for restarting a learning journey.

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在泰特利物浦使幼儿和家庭参与画廊教育

文字之外：在泰特利物浦进行的一项为期三年的民族志案例研究是一项民族志案例研究，探讨了来自Sure Start儿童中心的学龄前儿童，父母和托儿所从业者访问泰特学院，参加一系列扩展活动与艺术家的画廊访问和研讨会。本文通过批判性地研究不同的观点，话语和有效的创造性参与的可能结构，探索了这些创造性和文化经历的潜在价值和张力，特别是对于年幼的儿童和家庭而言。这项研究通过开放现有的有关贫困，包容性，负面刻板印象和占主导地位的教育话语。包括父母的见解，他们的感受与父母和子女在整个社会经济背景较低的教育过程中经常感受到的“象征暴力”有关。这项研究探索了泰特·利物浦如何通过反复拜访与儿童和成年人的关系来发展与多元化家庭观众的关系，这是一种提供连续性和归属感的重要方式，特别是对于传统上不去美术馆的家庭。这样一来，就可以将画廊视为民主，包容和根深蒂固的学习环境，其中艺术家教育者充当“梦想家”。梦想家可以提供额外的情感空间，