Art-Based Educational Research (ABER) is the main methodology used by this group for the production of scientific knowledge from an interdisciplinary nature. Even including citizen participation in different cultural processes or liked to art to generated new shared knowledge.

The results aim to improve the training of educators through the development and innovation of pedagogical proposals with didactic methods characteristic of the arts and culture; through artistic procedures for education, cultural mediation and social awareness; and through social and educational action based experience for social justice through arts.

There are multiple common knowledge areas: artistic education, visual arts, action art, design, humanities, social pedagogy, corporal pedagogies and with possible openings in other disciplines. Through the study of the different facets of the arts and culture teaching-learning, the group aims to contribute to the impact and progress of critical, aesthetic and creative knowledge in education required by the current society.

It seeks the development of a theoretical framework and reflexive thinking from pedagogical actions towards a more fair social construction, jointly englobing teaching and learning of the arts and culture as contents linked to equality in diversity, inclusion, solidarity, sustainable development and interculturality for the teaching of values, their sensitivity and awareness.

It wants to research about education through teaching and learning models of artistic and cultural nature, such as Service-Learning, Art Based Public Pedagogy, disruptive pedagogies, the creation of free access teaching materials, etc.

It is aimed at the research in artistic pedagogies in any level, socio-educational context and age, both for teacher and social educator training.

It seeks to collaborate with different social agents, collectives, NGDOs, associations, cultural spaces (museums, art galleries, social centres, art academies), CEFIRE and other organisms to go beyond the frontiers of the education sector found within university and the regulated teaching spaces, all with the objective of carrying out interdisciplinary research in direct contact with society and its real problems.

This group includes people from multiple universities and schools. As it wants to collaborate with other research groups and researchers from other universities, with whom already exists an extensive history of collaboration, to build more solid working networks, focusing on the research in arts and teaching.