At Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking -albeit with one's hands -i.e. "critical making." The Art of C…
"The educational constituency for the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school setting to include the wider community. Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy is a much needed textbook for courses in the training of arts teachers, arts therapists and commun…
Teaching and learning art in tertiary education has experienced significant and challenging cultural, technological, societal and economic change. How will art education change in view of the shifting trends in youth culture and expectations in society? How should we educate art…
"How are the arts important in young people's lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard. Through examples from the United Kingdom and…
"This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic domains. It reports on mixed method, international research that investigated how the Arts make a difference in the lives of young people. Drawin…
"Art, Community and Environment investigates wide-ranging issues raised by the interaction between art practice, community participation, and the environment, both natural and urban. This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors from the United Kingdom, Austr…
In recent years, the rise of research-creation - a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right - has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to…
