This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy-one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the f…
Philosophy and pedagogy in arts education / Christopher Naughton & David R Cole -- What if? : art education beyond expression and creativity / Gert Biesta -- Dicing the meat : Bacon in the middle of an arts-based sandwich / David R Cole -- Artists, presence and the gift of being…
Arts for Change presents strategies and theory for teaching socially engaged art with an historical and contemporary overview of the field. The book features interviews with over thirty maverick artists/faculty from colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and Gre…
Activist arts educators reveal best methods for engaging students and community in critical social issues.
"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, curators, artists, and educators to ask how art is and should be taught. Explores the theories that underwrite art education at all levels, the pertinent history of art education, and the most promising current conceptualizatio…
