Community Arts Education - Transversal Global Perspectives

This edited collection offers global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education. Invoking 'transversality' as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors - community professionals, scholars, artists, educators and activists from sixteen countries - offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts education at all levels. Such complexities include challenges created by globalizing phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic; ongoing efforts to achieve justice for Indigenous peoples; continuing movement of immigrants and refugees; growing recognition of issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace; and the increasing impact of grassroot movements and organizations. Chapters are grouped into four thematic clusters - Connections, Practices, Spaces and Relations - that map these and other intersecting assemblages of transversality. Thinking transversally about community art education not only shifts our understanding of knowledge from a passive construct to an active component of social life but redefines art education as a distinctive practice emerging from the complex relationships that form community.

Summary

Global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education. Invoking 'transversality' as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors from sixteen countries offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts education. 30 col. 20 b/w illus.

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• Assisted by: Rita L. Irwin (Editor), Rita L. (The University of British Columbia) Irwin (Editor), Ching-Chiu Lin (Editor), Ching-Chiu (Simon Fraser University) Lin (Editor), Anita Sinner (Editor), Anita (Concordia University Sinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Intellect
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781789387469
• ISBN: 978-1-78938-746-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Illustrations: 20 Halftones, black and white; 30 Halftones, color
• Series: Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology