Images and identity: educating citizenship through visual arts

Images and Identity examines how working with contemporary art in classrooms can inspire students to reflect on issues of personal and cultural identity. Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curricula, this edited collection brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the UK on producing online curriculum materials. This book offers a practical strategy for ways that these different subjects can be combined and taught. The first part of the book explores issues of art and citizenship education within a European context, while the second part contains case studies of curriculum experiments that can be applied to global classrooms. It will be of great interest to students and teachers of art and citizenship education.

Learning to speak as a listener: teaching European citizen identity through art / Gary Granville and Mary Richardson -- Identity and artistic education / Carl-Peter Buschkü̈hle -- Errant identities in contemporary art education / Raphael Vella -- Zde Jsem: what is my situation? identity, community, art and social change / Marie Fulkova and Teresa Tipton -- The role of talk in image-based learning / Fiona M. Collins and Susan Ogier -- Action research and interdisciplinary curriculum planning / Annabela Moura -- North-South exchange: student art teachers' visualisations of national identity / Dervil Jordan and Jackie Lambe -- Tool, medium and content: digital media and the Images and Identity Project / Marc Fritzsche -- Family and citizenship: case study by Portugal / Anabela Moura and Cristiana Sá -- Greetings from Europe: case study by Ireland / Aoife Keogh -- Identifying with European people and places: case study by England / Susan Ogier -- Mapping identity: case study by the Czech Republic / Lucie Hajduškovǎ -- Freedom and identity: case study by Germany / Carl-Peter Buschkü̈hle -- Personal and community identities: case study by Malta / Olivianne Farrugia.