Arts-Based Teaching and Learning in the Literacy Classroom - Cultivating a Critical Aesthetic Practice

This book highlights the unique and co-generative intersections of the arts and literacy that promote critical and socially engaged teaching and learning. Based on a year-long ethnography with two literacy teachers and their students in an arts-based public high school, this volume makes an argument for arts-based education as the cultivation of a critical aesthetic practice in the literacy classroom. Through rich example and analysis, it shows how, over time, this practice alters the in-school learning space in significant ways by making it more constructivist, more critical, and fundamentally more relational.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: A Conceptual Framework for Arts-Based Literacies
Chapter 2: Art as Story
Chapter 3: Art as a Theoretical Instrument
Chapter 4: Art as Action
Chapter 5: Moving Art from the Margins: Ways Forward

About the author

Jessica Whitelaw teaches courses in literacy, inquiry, teaching, and leadership at The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, USA.

Summary

This book highlights the unique and co-generative intersections of the arts and literacy that promote critical and socially engaged teaching and learning.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Whitelaw
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138344563
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34456-3
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, English, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English language & literacy, Educational: First / native language, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts