Arts-based Practices with Young People at the Edge

This book explores how arts-based programs designed to reconnect young people with learning and work provide brief, sometimes profound, re-engagements and productive identity shifts. It aims to support youth pushed to the edge of formal education and entangled in structural social and cultural inequality. The researchers, artists, activists, and youth organizations developed process-oriented practices with young people, enacting new creative methodologies building on agentive possibilities to disrupt misrepresentation and invisibility. The book positions arts-based practices at the edge, examining complex systemic issues around youth disengagement and possibilities of collective creativity to navigate broken systems and inform futures. Enacting arts-based methodologies with young people at the edge through co-design shares navigation out of locked trajectories in collaboration with those who listen deeply as allies in their journey of re-presenting themselves to the world. The final section reflects on arts-based practices at the edge eliciting standpoints of young people at the edge.

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List of contents

Part I Positioning Arts-Based Practices at the Edge.- Chapter 1. Young People: Navigating the Edge of Society Through the Arts-Creating in the Border Zones.- Chapter 2. Imagining an Education System Responsive to Young People's Needs: Past, Present and Future Positioning of Youth and Young People.- Part II Enacting Arts-Based Methodologies with Young People at the Edge through Co-design.- Chapter 3. Against Binaries: Images, Affects and Sites of Engagement.- Chapter 4. Students Researching Inequality: Perplexities and Potentialities of Arts-Informed Research Methods for Students-as-Researchers.- Chapter 5. Inner-City Youth 'Building Their Own Foundation': From Art Appreciation to Enterprise.- Chapter 6. Media Arts in A angu Education: A Culturally Responsive Approach for Developing Digital and Media Literacies.- Part III Reflecting on Arts-Based Practices at the Edge 125.- Chapter 7. Negotiating Capabilities: A New School Design for Transition to Work.- Chapter 8. 'It's Not My Story': Revitalising Young People's Learning Lives.- Chapter 9. An Arts-Led Recovery in 'Disadvantaged' Schools!.- Chapter 10. Pre-Enchanting Young People in Learning and Employment: Building Safe Relations for Diverse Students./

About the author

Deborah Price is Research Degree Coordinator, Senior Lecturer and Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI) Executive member, University of South Australia: Education Futures and President Australian Curriculum Studies Association. Her research spans inclusive education, disability studies, curriculum, wellbeing and advocacy for capabilities and strengths approaches valuing young people's lived experiences.

Belinda MacGill is Senior Lecturer, artist and researcher at the University of South Australia: Education Futures with a focus on decolonisation through arts-based pedagogies and creative methodologies. Her primary research interests draw on the fields of environmental art education, postcolonial theory, visual methodologies, arts pedagogy and critical race theory.

Jenni Carter is Lecturer in Literacy and English Education at the University of South Australia: Education Futures. Her current research focuses on culturally responsive pedagogies stories, image and the arts and has significant experience in community-based education, professional development and creative pedagogies in school and community settings.

Report

"A key strength of this book is the clarity with which it advocates for greater consideration of the agentive and transformative possibilities opened up by creative methodologies that involve young people. The contributions offer inspiration for researchers and topics for further discussion and debate. ... this work has utility for critical analysis and dialogue about the challenges in countering negative and homogenising representations, while at the same time inviting readers to consider transferable methodological models." (Naomi Berman, Journal of Applied Youth Studies, Vol. 6, 2023)

Product details

• Assisted by: Jenni Carter (Editor), Belinda MacGill (Editor), Deborah Price (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2023
• EAN: 9783031043444
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3104344-4
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XXI, 227 p. 15 illus. in color.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology