Abrantes, PedroFerro, LígiaLopes, João TeixeiraVeloso, LuísaSwinnerton, Maria de Assis2021-10-042021-10-042019978-3-030-06007-7http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/11203This chapter addresses the role played by arts education in the promotion of citizenship and human development, in the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Taking the Portuguese education sys tem as a case study, we describe how arts education has been conceived in the national school curricula from the 1960s until today. We then discuss three emanci patory projects of arts education.engArts educationCultural diversityPortugalHuman developmentNational school curriculaEmancipatory projects of arts educationbook part10.1007/978-3-030-06007-7