Table 4.

Future research directions.

Future Direction of Research	Relevance Score	Main Associated Terms	Description
Visual ArtEducation	38.593	Artistic Fencing Craft Art Art School	It seeks to promote through the various artistic disciplines, transmit, and create more complex elements with visual, expressive, and aesthetic characteristics, both traditional and the newest and unconventional trends offered by new technologies such as digital art, urban art and other more emerging in the last decades [78,85].
Affective Paradigm	25.451	Affective Domain Cognitive Disability Self Determination	This paradigm attempts to create new ways of investigating emotions from the perspective of art and the social sciences. It is sought that emotions and affections gain strength; and also, interactions, discourses, the body or gender (and its cultural and historical variability), as social and psychic mobilizers; and other powerful knowledge builders [86,87].
Metacompetency	23.263	Verbal Creativity Positive Education Reliability	This line of research should analyze the internal, spiritual, psychic, and emotional competencies that support the competencies of doing, and without which that doing lacks quality and meaning. This context refers to the underlying values and principles that support the being and doing of a person and their very reason for being [88,89]. For this reason, critical thinking and knowledge in art favors the development of metacompetencies while criticism is an inherent condition of art, of the work of art and aesthetics. The critical or self-critical character toward systems of representation is a fundamental principle of contemporary art and is what allows a work of art to be cataloged and differentiated from any utilitarian object, therefore, the interest in its knowledge and development [37].
Expressive Arts Therapy Group	12.171	Art Therapist Cognitive Therapy Social Safety	Expressive arts therapy, also known as creative therapies, refers to the use of artistic media as a form of therapy [9]. Unlike traditional art expression, it places its emphasis on the process of creation and not on aesthetic value or the final product. The expressive arts are a powerful way to provoke questions, communicate knowledge, inspire understanding, and transform society [90]. This process invites people, groups, and communities to participate in a certain creative space where, through different artistic modalities, they express, identify, and enhance their emotional resources, in order to strengthen their ability to imagine and transform their feelings into a positive [91,92].
Cognitive Empathy	11.193	Discrete Emotion Positive Influence Achievement Emotion	Empathy seeks to understand and recognize what the other person is feeling, but always from the intellect, never from one’s own emotion [93]. By relating art education to empathy, results can be obtained in terms of recognizing what another person thinks and vibrating even with what he or she feels. In this sense, this direction will try to analyze how to express and expand the inner world to those around us [94,95].