Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education

This interdisciplinary book explores socially engaged art as a subject of study and its relevance in higher arts education institutions' third mission-giving back to society and engaging with the community-to build a sustainable higher arts education for the future.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Ten case studies: Addressing the social turn in the arts
2. Socially engaged art: Definitions, complexities, and cultural contexts
3. Participatory potential
4. Possibilities of learning
5. Transformative prospects
6. Socially engaged art in higher arts education
7. Towards an academic framework for socially engaged art
8. Socially engaged art as a subject of study
9. Political and social awareness in higher arts education
10. From safe spaces to polyphonic spaces
11. Socially engaged art and the futures of higher arts education
Coda: Reimagining the role of socially engaged art in higher arts education

About the author

Kai Lehikoinen is a University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki's Research Institute, Finland, and a Representative Board Member of ELIA, a globally connected European network for higher arts education.

Product details

• Authors: Lehikoinen Kai
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032692104
• ISBN: 978-1-032-69210-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Research in Arts Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Sustainability, EDUCATION / General, Medicine, The arts: general issues, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Social Work, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Medicine and Nursing, The arts: general topics