The role of the arts in learning : cultivating landscapes of democracy

Title:

ISBN:

9781315207643

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information New:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages) : 14 illustrations.

Series:

Routledge research in education

Routledge research in education.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction: Education, the Arts, and Resistance to the Neoliberal Condition / chapter 2 Becoming a Deweyan Apprentice: A Struggle Against White Supremacy / chapter 3 From Grief, Find Your Peace: Steve Prince and The Big Zipper Community / chapter 4 Chicago Consciousness: Democratic Reform, the Built Environment, and Sensorimotor Awareness / chapter 5 Devising Theater: Imagination Meets Citizenship / chapter 6 Flowers for Feynman: Natural Piety and the Aesthetics of Experience in the Experimental Spirit / chapter 7 Inhibition as Fundamental: From Synapse to Classroom / chapter 8 Coping Creatively, Imagining Democracy: Expressive Arts Therapy in an Urban Public School / chapter 9 Disturbing the Peace: Community, Justice Learning, and Democratic Participation with Communities of Color / chapter 10 Get Woke: Radicalizing Imagination in the Interest of a Just Democracy

Abstract:

Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene, this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education, this book offers imaginative ways the arts and sciences intersect with democratic learning and civic engagement. Chapters focus on education in relation to diversity, apprenticeship, and civic engagement; neuroscience and cognition; urban aesthetic experience and learning; and science and art intelligence.

Subject Term:

Arts in education.

Educational sociology.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Educational Inequality.

Humanities Education.