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This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation.
List of contents
Section 1: Theory: Developing a Democratic Imagination 1. Civics and the Arts: Developing Cultural Citizenship within Art Education 2. Limit Acts and Constructed Situations as Curriculum: Paulo Freire and the Situationist International 3. Transformative Learning Towards Socio-Ecological Consciousness and Civic Engagement: The Creative Potential of Nature Connection 4. Reproductive Justice as Feminist Art Education 5. An Affective and Sensory Civic Encounter: Examining Ableism and Civic Education through Arts Based Policy Research 6. Encountering the
I Can't Breathe Mural: The Material Culture of Protest, Antiracism, and Art Education 7. Making Common Ground for Living: Strategies for Meaningful Intervention into Systemic and Structural Inequalities 8. Art Education for Democracy: The Experience of Who
is American Today? Project 9. Global Music Communities and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age
Section 2: Engagement: Creating as if Communities Matter 10. We Make the Road by Walking: Exploring Art Activist Pedagogy 11. Reimaginging YAAAS: Supporting the Well-being and Civic Potential of Resettled Refugee Youth Through Collaborative Artmaking 12. AMP!ify | Agitate | Disrupt: Civic Engagement and Political Clarity in Art Education 13. The Landscape is Turning: Narrative Collage as Sites of Civic Engagement 14. Engaging the Next Generation of Citizen Artists: How a Museum of Contemporary Art and a Chicago Public High School Partnered to Foster Informed and Activated Youth 15. Reflective Conversations Between Two Experienced Women Art Educators and Their Life-Long Involvement Through Civic Engagement 16. Utilizing Fugitive Pedagogies to Promote Civic Education in
De Facto Segregated Schools 17. Combating Racial Pandemics and Advocating for the Invisible Through Art. 18. (Un)learning on the Sidewalk: Reclaiming Civic Engagement and Democracy in Public Art-making 19. Engaging Circles of Reflection: Indigenous Methodologies in Community-based Theatre
About the author
Flávia Bastos is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Doug Blandy is Professor Emeritus in the College of Design, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon, USA.
Summary
This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation.
