Educational: Arts, general
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in
Book SynopsisArt Lab for Kids is a refreshing source of wonderful ideas for creating fine art with children. This step-by-step book offers 52 fun and creative art projects set into weekly lessons, beginning with drawing, moving through painting and printmaking, and then building to paper collage and mixed media. Each lesson features and relates to the work and style of a contemporary artist and their unique style. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on fine art experiences. Grouped by medium, the labs are set up loosely to build skills upon the previous ones; however, you can begin anywhere. Have fun exploring: drawing by creating a whimsical scene on a handmade crayon scratchboard. painting by using watercolors and salt to create a textured landscape. printmaking by using lemons, celery, mushrooms, and other produce to make colorful prints. paper by creating an expressive self-portrait using pieces of colored tissue paper. mixed media by making insects from patterned contact paper and watercolor pencils. Color photos illustrate how different people using the same lesson will yield different results, exemplifying the way the lesson brings out each artist’s personal style. Art Lab for Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new art teachers. The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics, including art, astronomy, clay, geology, math, and even how to create your own circus—all authored by established experts in their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids.Trade Review"Written by a couple who run a successful combination art gallery and art school for children, this book presents the authors’ most popular art projects for youngsters, covering an ambitious range of materials and techniques. This guide offers a greater-than-average number of open-ended and inventive projects that can be taught to younger children and teens alike. Each project is paired with an example of a work by a modern master or living artist. Many photographs illustrate techniques and show children deeply engaged in creativity. VERDICT: Recommended particularly for teachers and parents." - Library Journal"I love Susan's Art Lab series and reference them in the Art Studio often. They're easy to follow, full of images, and directed at open-ended exploration - exactly the kind of reference I need for my own busy home." - Meghan Burch, Art Studio Educator, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA
£15.29
Sage Publications Ltd Primary Humanities
Book Synopsis'This book brings together the traditions of historical enquiry and geographical enquiry. At its heart is the belief in children's capacities to be enquiring historians and geographers, enabling them to develop a sound base of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding'- Lynne Dixon, Senior Lecturer in Primary Humanities, University of Greenwich'This book successfully combines theory and practice: it helps the reader to make sense of different perspectives of theories of learning related to these subject areas. It is therefore useful to both classroom practitioners and students alike. Readers will certainly be able to identify elements useful to their needs'- Emily Rotchell, Senior Lecturer in Primary Geography, University of RoehamptonProviding a broad and balanced overview of the teaching of history and geography, Primary Humanities: Learning through Enquiry is indispensable reading for all primary teacher edTrade Review′This book brings together the traditions of historical enquiry and geographical enquiry. It helps to clarify the role and application of these essential skills within each subject and helps to demonstrate the strengths of the enquiry approach in both teaching and learning. It goes on to explore most helpfully and clearly the place of enquiry in primary pedagogy in relation to thinking skills, creativity, philosophy for children, learning outside the classroom and cross curricular links. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate and exemplify, and websites for resources are indicated. It is both reflective and practical and will support the more experienced classroom teacher as well as student and the newly qualified teacher in planning, teaching and assessing these significant humanities subjects through an approach which has a central place within both subjects. At its heart is the belief in children′s capacities to be enquiring historians and geographers, enabling them to develop a sound base of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding′-Lynne Dixon, Senior Lecturer in Primary Humanities ′This book successfully outlines the fundamental process of enquiry led learning in History and geography. In recognising the distinctive elements of primary geography and history, it also highlights elements where these subjects can be brought together. As well as exploring possible enquiries that can take place both inside and outside the classroom, very useful advice is given on resourcing enquiry based learning. This book successfully combines theory and practice; it helps the reader to make sense of different perspectives on theories of learning related to these subject areas. It is therefore useful to both classroom practitioners and students alike, whether it is useful reading for a masters assignment or for refining enquiry based learning in class, readers will certainly be able to identify elements useful to their needs′-Emily Rotchell, Senior Lecturer in Primary Geography, University of RoehamptonThe book successfully combines theory and practice: it helps the reader to make sense of different perspectives of theories of learning related to these subject areas. It is therefore useful to both classroom practitioners and education studies students alike. Whether you are a trainee or a practitioner, this book will develop your knowledge of how young children′s understanding of place, time and community can be fostered through an enquiry-based curriculum. It will also benefit, perhaps, teachers of older children looking to encourage more independent learning in their schools. -- Andy ReynoldsTable of ContentsWhy Do Enquiry-Led Learning? What Is Enquiry-Led Learning in Primary History and Geography? Enquiry outside the Classroom Resources for Enquiry Enquiry in Practice in History and Geography Planning for Progression Assessing Enquiry Creative and Cross-Curricular Approaches in Teaching Enquiry-Based Humanities Ideas and Examples
£35.76
New Shoe Press Super Fun Art Activities for Kids
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring Table of ContentsIntroduction: ... these unprecedented times Earl T. Harper and Doug Specht 1. They say "our house is on fire" – on the climate emergency and (new) Earth politics Edward H. Huijbens and Martin Gren 2. Do not go gentle into that good night: contested narratives and political subjectivities in the Anthropocene Carlos Tornel and Aapo Lunden 3. The end of worlding: indigenous cosmologies in the Anthropocene Mariana Reyes-Carranza 4. Apocalypse repeated: the absence of theindigenous subject in George Turner’s The Sea and Summer (1987) Charlotte Lancaster 5. Apocalyptic Literary Geographies: The Tempest’s ‘brave new world,’ Frankenstein’s ‘modern Prometheus,’ and Cloud-Atlas’ ‘ furthest-eeein’ eye’ Charles Travis 6. A world without bodies: geotrauma and the work of mourning in Jorie Graham's Fast Philip Jones 7. Meaningful life at the end of times: ageism and the duty-to-die in Logan’s Run James A. Tyner 8. The catastrophic drive Lucas Pohl and Samo Tomšič 9. The self(ie) in the Anthropocene Doug Specht and Cat Snyder 10. Urbicide in the Anthropocene: imagining Miami futures Stephanie Wakefield 11. Triggering the apparitions: spectres of chemical seascapes María Soledad Castro Vargas and Diana Barquero Pérez 12. Study for "Memories of the apocalypse" Carl Christian Olsson 13. Variegated environmental apocalypses: post-politics, the contestatory, and an eco-precariat manifesto for a radical apocalyptics Tristan Sturm and Nicholas Ferris Lustig
£39.99
BookLife Publishing Pop Art
Book SynopsisJoin your specialist as you try to find out all about different art genres, famous artists and their works. Then, try to recreate your own versions of these works. This series will give your mini Monets and diddy Dalis all the knowledge they need about the history and practice of art.
£9.49
Human Kinetics Publishers More Dance Improvisations
Book SynopsisMore Dance Improvisations builds on the success of its predecessor, Dance Improvisations, and offers 78 brand-new activities that have been tested and refined by author Justine Reeve, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer. This text offers a wealth of creative ideas that instructors can use to help their dancers explore and experience movement. The 78 improvisation tasks and exercises support all portions of a dance class, from improvisation lessons, warm-ups, and games that stimulate creativity to choreographic tasks for creating movement material. These new activities will provide an invaluable source of creative ideas for all dancers, including those who are exploring their own professional practice.More Dance Improvisations offers expert instruction in planning, teaching, and assessing students’ improvisations; a choreographic toolkit and glossary of dance and choreographic terms; step-by-step instruction and teaching tips that will save instructors preparation time; and extensions of each improv to aid further exploration and development of the improvisation skills. Instructors can use the improvs for individual lessons or in developing an entire lesson plan. “The improvisation tasks and exercises will encourage dancers’ imaginative responses to a varied selection of stimuli, whether alone or in groups,” says author Justine Reeve. “These improvisations will give dancers the keys to unlock ideas that they will find useful on their choreographic journey.” After an introductory chapter that covers many important topics on conducting safe and effective practices and workshops and on how to use the book, the text moves into its first set of improvisations: warm-up games. These games develop quick thinking, group thinking, movement communication, and an awareness of the needs and movements of others. The next two chapters explore solo and duo improvisations as well as group creative tasks. Each improvisation task has a brief description, an image, numbered tasks for clarity, a teaching tip, and ideas to take the task further or develop the dance idea as appropriate. Chapter 5 explores how the physical and aural setting can lead to creating interesting and considered dance. Chapter 6 encourages dancers to use movements, phrases, and sequences created in previous tasks to develop and structure the movement material into something new. “These games, tasks, ideas, stimuli, and developments are here to give instructors and students a little push to find creative vision, explore movement, and discover how these ideas can be developed, adapted, and structured,” says Reeve. “Instructors will find new ways to help their dancers create original movements through both individual and group activities, and students will gain inspiration through using these improvisations.”More Dance Improvisations promotes creativity that leads to innovative breakthroughs for students from middle school through college. It is the perfect resource to help dancers enjoy their exploration of movement and dance as they gain greater awareness of the capabilities they possess.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and How to Use This Book This chapter explores how to use this book, warming up and safe practice, effective planning, top tips for dance improvisation, planning your workshop, inclusive practice, and finding the right music, musicality, phrases and a table of improvisations.Chapter 2. Warm-Up Games and Tasks This chapter explores the concepts of play and spontaneous movement as stimuli for warming up the body and preparing the mind for new experiences. The games and improvisations within will prepare dancers for the creative tasks ahead, improve reaction times and explore key features of movement.Chapter 3. Solo and Duo Improvisations This chapter explores the movement responses dancers can generate on their own and with partners. Through these tasks, they’ll discover spontaneous movement answers that will develop, challenge and refine their creative responses, solo or in duos.Chapter 4. Group Creative Tasks This chapter explores the movement responses dancers can generate in groups. By working with others, they can explore and discover new movement ideas. The tasks within aim to develop, challenge and refine creative responses and the feeling of working as a team that comes with making group decisions in the moment.Chapter 5. Moving Beyond the Kinaesthetic: Using Physical and Aural Improvisation Tasks This chapter explores how starting with elements of physical and aural settings can lead students to create interesting dance. It acts as a taster for being inspired by external stimuli and will hopefully inspire an abundance of future ideas.Chapter 6. Developing Improvisations This chapter encourages dancers to use the movements, phrases and sequences created in previous tasks to play with development and structuring to manipulate the movement material. They can also develop ideas using existing material and repertoire. These are only a few suggestions to inspire additional ideas on how to develop movements into dance pieces or works.
£29.70
Constructing Modern Knowledge Press The Art of Digital Fabrication STEAM Projects for
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BookLife Publishing Post-Impressionism
Book SynopsisJoin your specialist as you try to find out all about different art genres, famous artists and their works. Then, try to recreate your own versions of these works. This series will give your mini Monets and diddy Dalis all the knowledge they need about the history and practice of art.
£9.49
BookLife Publishing Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisJoin your specialist as you try to find out all about different art genres, famous artists and their works. Then, try to recreate your own versions of these works. This series will give your mini Monets and diddy Dalis all the knowledge they need about the history and practice of art.
£9.49
Pearson Education Movement and Music
Book SynopsisJere Gallagher is an associate professor and serves as Associate Dean in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Gallagher graduated from Louisiana State University with a doctorate in motor development and motor learning with minors in developmental psychology and experimental statistics. She has extensive experience in the physical activity of children. For over 25 years she developed and directed the Kinder Kinetics Program, a program for children with and without disabilities between the ages of 3- to 12-years of age. The program received the 2008 United Cerebral Palsy's 2008 Humanitarian Award. Jere has also been the Chair of the Council on Physical Education for Children, the Motor Development Academy and the Youth Sport Coalition. More recently she was a consultant for Head Start Body Start. All these organization are part of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Movement and Music Working Together to Create a Healthy Child Chapter 2: Developing Curriculum and Environments for Music and Movement Chapter 3: Music Provides the Rhythm for Movement and Healthy Lifestyle Chapter 4: Matching the Individual, Task and Environment to Enhance Learning Chapter 5: Movement Content During the Early Childhood Years Chapter 6: Dance and Music Healthy Lifestyle Partnership Chapter 7: Development of Gross Motor Skills for a Lifetime of Movement Chapter 8: Fitness and Nutrition Create a Healthy Lifestyle Chapter 9: Movement and Music Broadens Learning Chapter 10: Assessment, Evaluation and Engagement
£79.74
Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching to Support Childrens Artistic
Book SynopsisThis engagingly written, research- and practice-based book defines how art teachers can build on students' creative initiatives without depending on adult-imposed lesson plans and school requirements. In doing so, art educator and author George Szekely explores the role of the arts in developing children's creativity and sense of purpose, and reminds readers that students in the art classroom are unique artists, designers, and innovators. Against the backdrop of a school culture that over-emphasizes compliance and standardization, Szekely recognizes the importance of the role of the art teacher in supporting the artistic independence and creative flare that occurs naturally in students of all ages in the classroom. Providing real-life examples of classrooms and schools that work towards championing child artists, this text arms teachers with the skills necessary to listen to their students and support them in presenting their ideas in class. Ultimately, Szekely challenTrade Review“Teaching to Support Children’s Artistic Independence: How Children’s Creativity Can Inform Art Education, is a qualitative study of children’s personal stories, experiments and experiences. It describes for teachers the importance of teaching children artistic independence and the power of developing thinking, emotional growth and learning to value the importance and power of a child’s thoughts and how this has a foundation in the art class room. This book is especially important because it’s a testament to children and their development and that they are the stars in the art classroom. The book gives a perspective on the importance of young artists as thinkers, and inventors. It goes further to discuss how young artists should be encouraged to develop their primary thoughts and be encouraged to search for meaning and ways to materialize their thoughts. Ultimately, Szekely states young artists need to value themselves and while doing this they will develop cognitive skills such as the ability to perceive and react, process and understand, store information, make decisions and produce visual images. The book gives rich examples of how making art in the art room can lead to a lifetime of unlimited rich thoughts and creative inventions.” -- Bernard Young, Professor, Arizona State University, USA“George Szekely’s writings and teachings radically challenged my beliefs about Art Education by simply reminding me what it felt like to play, to imagine, to create - not in a way that pleased adults, but in a manner that honored my eight-year-old self. This book pushes me yet again. Szekely's conviction that learners are independent thinkers and makers worthy of respect and support is in conflict with much of the normative thinking that dominates art classrooms across the country. So many young artists have been left behind. When our notions of art conflict with their curiosities, wonderings and aesthetic preferences, we send a clear message: art is not for you. In a Szekely classroom, we don’t teach, per say, but rather, collaborate. We are granted a gift of insight. Through the artists in our midst, we experience the world not as it is, but as it can be.” -- Cindy M. Foley, Executive Assistant Director, Director of Learning and Experience, Columbus Museum of Art, USA“Drawing on a lifetime of experience in engaging young learners, Szekely shows a profound respect for children as competent, imaginative visionaries who are ready, with strategic prompts from their teacher, to joyfully explore and manipulate their own worlds. Anyone entrusted with the creative development of children will appreciate his lively practical guidance and insightful pedagogical tips.” -- Richard Siegesmund, Professor Emeritus, Art and Design Education, Northern Illinois University, USA“The publication a new book by George Szekely is cause for celebration in the community of art educators who support student choice and agency. He writes passionately about the gifts, abilities and ideas of even the youngest students. He challenges teachers and schools to notice and embrace these gifts so children can grow as independent makers. Incorporating play and surprise to engage his students he offers them the stage to share what fills their pockets and their imaginations.”-- Katherine Douglas, co-founder Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), Massachusetts College of Art and Design TAB Institute, Massachusetts, USATable of ContentsSection 1: Reimagining Art Teaching 1: A New Mindset2: Finding the Artist in Every Student3: Qualities of an Independent Artist4: Creating the Art Class5: A Different Kind of Art ClassSection 2: Relationships in the Classroom6: The Unknown and the Individual in the Art Class7: Building Relationships with Art Students8: Students Seeing Themselves as Artists9: When Art Becomes DifficultSection 3: Home and School Art10: Separating Art from School11: Students Beyond the Art Class12: Bridging the Gap Between School and Home Art13: Adults United14: Art Lessons as Life Lessons
£37.04
Taylor & Francis Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music
Book SynopsisThis volume problematizes the historic dominance of Western classical music education and posits culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) as a framework through which music curricula can better serve increasingly diverse student populations. By detailing a qualitative study conducted in an urban high school in the United States, the volume illustrates how traditional approaches to music education can inhibit student engagement and learning. Moving beyond culturally responsive teaching, the volume goes on to demonstrate how enhancing teachersâ understanding of alternative musical epistemologies can support them in embracing CSP in the music classroom. This new theoretical and pedagogical framework reconceptualizes current practices to better sustain the musical cultures of the minoritized.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in music education, multicultural education, and urban education more broadly. Those specifically interested iTable of ContentsPart I: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, 1: The Importance of Theory, 2: Why Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Music Education? Part II: Historical Overview of Today’s Music Classroom 3: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission, 4: Music and the ‘Civilizing’ Mission in the United States, 5: Character Improvement and Music Education in the United States, 6: Music Education Standardization and Codification Part III: Today’s Music Classroom 7: How do our Normalized Practices Impact Children Today? 8: Two Music Teaching Approaches 9: How do Students describe a Meaningful Music Classroom? Part IV: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Music Education 10: Musical Epistemology and Music Education Part V: Moving Forward Toward Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy 11: Practical Implications for the Music Classroom 12: Towards a Framework for Culturally Sustaining Music Pedagogy
£37.04
Sarah Tuck Books Grandma Mattie Gets Her a Man
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New York University Press Drawing Deportation
Book SynopsisIllustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviewsSilvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children's challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. The volume provides key insights into how immigrant children in both states presented creative, out-of-the-box, powerful solutions to the dilemmas that anti-immigrant rhetoric and harsh immigration laws present. Through art, they demonstrated a righteous indignation against societal violence, dehumanization, and death as a tool for navigating a racist, anti-immigrant society. When children are the agents of their own stories, they can reimagine destructive situations in ways that adults sometimes cannot, offering us alternatives and hope for a better future. At once devastating and revelatory, Drawing Deportation provides a roadmap for how art can provide a safe and necessary space for vulnerable populations to assert their humanity in a world that would rather divest them of it.Trade ReviewRodriguez Vega demonstrates how art will always speak truth to power. Drawing Deportation is the book we’ve been waiting for—with gut-wrenching images that inspire us to continue the fight for social justice, immigrant rights, and children’s happiness! !Viva el teatro! !Vivan los niños! -- Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association and president of the Dolores Huerta FoundationThrough the lens of their art, Rodriguez Vega unveils not only the traumas and untold angst that our broken immigration system unleashes upon immigrant children’s lives but also the unmistakable resilience and resourcefulness so many demonstrate. Her child-centered, social justice-oriented voice rings loudly and is essential reading for developmentalists, educators, and policy makers who care to understand the realities of these children’s experiences. -- Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard UniversityOnly Rodriguez Vega could write a book this ambitious, creative, and politically urgent—expressing children’s sheer resilience through art. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, University of California, Santa BarbaraUsing innovative interdisciplinary methods, Drawing Deportation highlights children’s creativity, agency, and ability to heal. Rodriguez Vega convincingly demonstrates that art allows children to create improved worlds. -- Leisy J. Abrego, University of California, Los AngelesA work of heartbreaking vision and innovative scholarship, this landmark volume brings the power of art and science together to inform immigration policy. Youth provide extraordinary artistic testimony and resistance in confronting the harshest immigration enforcement, while Rodriguez Vega amplifies their voices with her analytic depth, rigor, and brilliance. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York UniversityThis singular volume is at once heartbreaking and hopeful as it tells the stories of immigrant children through their own works of art. Silvia Rodriguez Vega has spent a decade with children in Arizona and California and has found that the experience of making art about their experiences helps them to express their feelings, process their pain and become active participants in their healing journeys. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *
£55.50
New York University Press Drawing Deportation
Book SynopsisIllustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviewsSilvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children's challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. The volume provides key insights into how immigrant children in both states presented creative, out-of-the-box, powerful solutions to the dilemmas that anti-Trade ReviewRodriguez Vega demonstrates how art will always speak truth to power. Drawing Deportation is the book we’ve been waiting for—with gut-wrenching images that inspire us to continue the fight for social justice, immigrant rights, and children’s happiness! !Viva el teatro! !Vivan los niños! -- Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association and president of the Dolores Huerta FoundationThrough the lens of their art, Rodriguez Vega unveils not only the traumas and untold angst that our broken immigration system unleashes upon immigrant children’s lives but also the unmistakable resilience and resourcefulness so many demonstrate. Her child-centered, social justice-oriented voice rings loudly and is essential reading for developmentalists, educators, and policy makers who care to understand the realities of these children’s experiences. -- Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard UniversityOnly Rodriguez Vega could write a book this ambitious, creative, and politically urgent—expressing children’s sheer resilience through art. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, University of California, Santa BarbaraUsing innovative interdisciplinary methods, Drawing Deportation highlights children’s creativity, agency, and ability to heal. Rodriguez Vega convincingly demonstrates that art allows children to create improved worlds. -- Leisy J. Abrego, University of California, Los AngelesA work of heartbreaking vision and innovative scholarship, this landmark volume brings the power of art and science together to inform immigration policy. Youth provide extraordinary artistic testimony and resistance in confronting the harshest immigration enforcement, while Rodriguez Vega amplifies their voices with her analytic depth, rigor, and brilliance. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York UniversityThis singular volume is at once heartbreaking and hopeful as it tells the stories of immigrant children through their own works of art. Silvia Rodriguez Vega has spent a decade with children in Arizona and California and has found that the experience of making art about their experiences helps them to express their feelings, process their pain and become active participants in their healing journeys. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *Through children's drawings and stories Rodriguez Vega exposes the destructive consequences of legal violence, structural racism and lack of safety in these young people's lives... fascinating, timely and [a] beautifully written book that speaks beyond its context. * Children & Society *A powerful book. Author Silvia Rodriguez Vega does a fantastic job of contextualizing the research in the long and well-documented history of American white supremacy and its role in family separations. Take your time with this important record of the inhumanity taking place daily at the US-Mexico border. * Hyperallergic *
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Cornell University Press The Scholar as Human
Book SynopsisThe Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplineshistory; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studiesto focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar''s sense of identity, purpose, and place in the world. Designed to help model new paths for publicly-engaged humanities, the contributions to this groundbreaking volume are guided by one overarching question: How can scholars practice a more human scholarship?Recognizing that colleges and universities must be more responsive to the needs of both their students and surrounding communities, the essays in The Scholar as Human carve out new space for public scholars and practitioners whose rigor and passion are equally important forces in their work. Challenging the approach to research and teaching of earlier generations Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Anna Sims Bartel and Debra A. Castillo Part I: Humanizing Scholars 1. Humans as Scholars,Scholars as Humans, by Anna Sims Bartel 2. To Be, or To Become? On Reading and Recognition, by Shawn McDaniel 3. Present: Humanity in the Humanities, by A. T. Miller Part II: Engaging Artifacts 4. Humans Remain: Engaging Communities and Embracing Tensions in the Study of Ancient Human Skeletons, by Matthew Velasco 5. Forgotten Faces, Missing Bodies: Understanding "Techno-Invisible" Populations and Political Violence in Peru, by José Ragas 6. A Ride to New Futures with Rosa Parks: Producing Public Scholarship and Community Art, by Riché Richardson Part III: Considering Resistance 7. Finding Humanity: Social Change on Our Own Terms, by Christine Henseler 8. Performing Democracy: Bad and Nasty Patriot Acts, by Sara Warner 9. Making Law, by Gerald Torres 10. What's It All Meme?, by Ella Diaz Part IV: Using Humanity/ies 11. Performing the Past, Rehearsing the Future: Transformative Encounters with American Theater Company's Youth Ensemble, by Caitlin Kane 12. "From the Projects to the Pasture": Navigating Food Justice, Race, and Food Localism, by Bobby J. Smith II 13. "I Heard You Help People": Grassroots Advocacy for Latina/os in Need, by Debra A. Castillo and Carolina Osorio Gil Afterword: The Prophetic Aspiration of the Scholar as Human, by Scott J. Peters
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Michigan State University Press Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in
Book SynopsisThrough pedagogical narratives, literary analyses, reflective essays, and collaborative dialogues, Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments explores the professional and intellectual tensions of curricula, pedagogies, and personal practices that honour the relationships of interspecies ecologies, reinhabit and reconceive wounded landscapes and wounding institutions, and allow us to reattune ourselves to new yet ancient frameworks for sustainability.For the writers here, fostering sustainability in higher education means focusing on place, creating positive relationships with humans and other beings, and creating administrative structures that will maintain new approaches for the long-term, showing how teaching environmentally is at once intensely site-specific yet powerfully global, deeply personal yet visibly public.Narratives of Educating for Sustainability in Unsustainable Environments confronts the contexts that make environmental pedagogies difficult, the challenges to the well-being of the teacher-scholar, and the corrosive academic structures that compartmentalize knowledge and people. The collection simultaneously offers models for working through and within these challenges to advance understandings and ways of being on local, global, and personal levels that will turn the planetary tide toward effective and shared sustainability.
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Lulu.com The Happy Beagle Coloring Book
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Independently Published Louisa May Alcott's Little Women for Kids: 3
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Intellect Books Let's Talk about Critique: Reimagining Art and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It examines how critique, as a signature pedagogy in the field, has evolved, how it falls short, and what else it can be. Current practices are contextualized and suggestions are made for ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. Included is a discussion of the history of critique, grounding current practice in the discipline’s history, the field of education, and characteristics of contemporary students. The book is designed to be useful, with an array of critique methods, written by experienced arts educators. Each one guides the reader through a method, describing “why you might do it this way” and “for what group, purpose, or type of assignment”. The text explores what the art critique is, and what it can be, offering practical, updated approaches for faculty and students seeking more educationally beneficial and nuanced critiqueTrade Review"Let’s Talk about Critique includes a variety of ways to look at and talk about work, pushing beyond the stale traditions and enlivening the possibilities for what can happen in discussing art. Armstrong and Doren provide a very thorough history and critique of the critique, as well as solutions to the inadequacies of the past traditions. The book meets an important need, evolving the critique from an authority/judgment model to a dialogue where all voices are respected and content meaning is addressed." -- Susan Waters-Eller, Maryland Institute College of Art“In Let’s Talk about Critique, Armstrong and Doren make a compelling case for the necessity of different studio critiques within contemporary higher education. This book is an extensive and diverse catalogue of innovative studio critiques, explores the history of the studio critique, and discusses recent studies on Generation Z.” -- Roger Rothman, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What Is a Critique? 2. The Critique’s History: How the Contemporary Critique Evolved 3. The Contemporary Student and the Critique 4. Critique And Assessment 5. Critique Methods Collection I: Non-verbal critiques Yun Shin and Emily Stokes Elissa Armstrong Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Chelsea Coon Mariah Doren Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard II: Play and improvisation critiques Carol Elkovich Nida Abdullah and Denise Gonzales Crisp Jonathon Russell Laurie Gatlin Tyrus Clutter Jonathon Russell III: Pre-, mid-, post- and extended critiques Ane Gonzalez Lara Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Leslie Bellavance Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard Elissa Armstrong Hannah Barnes IV: Student-centered critiques Gaia Scagnetti and T. Camille Martin-Thomsen Denielle J. Emans and Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt April Friges Andrea Marpillero-Colomina Kristina Bivona nicole killian Hande Sever and Alexandre Saden melissa m button, Matt Nock, and Phil Stoesz V: Critique of critiques Mariah Doren Maya Krinsky Andy Broadey and Richard Hudson-Miles Matt King Morgan Alford, Alia Ali, Naama Attias, Julia Chai, Casey Chan, Jiayun Chen, Yingtong He, Ashley Hunt, Kaidi Jiu, Keunjae Kwon, Michael Mendoza, Oscar Ochoa, Alexeis Reyes, Ruoyi Shi, Estela Ana Silva, Allison Yasukawa, and Hanzhu Zhang Conclusion References Notes on Contributors
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BookLife Publishing Surrealism
Book SynopsisJoin your specialist as you try to find out all about different art genres, famous artists and their works. Then, try to recreate your own versions of these works. This series will give your mini Monets and diddy Dalis all the knowledge they need about the history and practice of art.
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BookLife Publishing Impressionism
Book SynopsisJoin your specialist as you try to find out all about different art genres, famous artists and their works. Then, try to recreate your own versions of these works. This series will give your mini Monets and diddy Dalis all the knowledge they need about the history and practice of art.
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Diaphanes AG How to Teach Art?
Book SynopsisA cooperative reflection on how to teach art. How should art be taught? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process? In other words, how can a non-artist become an artist? Such programmatic questions articulated by acclaimed Polish artist Artur Żmijewski were at the heart of the workshop “How to Teach Art?” Żmijewski invited a group of graduate and doctoral students from three Zurich universities—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts—to collectively reflect on their artistic practices. Over the course of four months, the group met several times a week for hourlong sessions, following individual and collective exercises induced by Żmijewski himself. This book retraces the workshop and its process by showing inconclusive, fragmentary results between theory and practice. How to Teach Art? presents drawings, videos, photographs, 16mm films, and accompanying reflections on the central premise, “How to teach art?”
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Mdpi AG Material Culture and Religion: Perspectives over
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Independently Published Nate the Note - Book 1: Learn to Read Music
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Independently Published Dance Musicality: a Christian Perspective
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Social Justice Art Education: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy
Book SynopsisExpanding on a groundbreaking framework, this revised edition connects activist art education with current campaigns for social justice. Nearly a decade after Social Justice Art, innovative arts educator Marit Dewhurst returns with a new edition offering further guidance for developing meaningful, justice-centered art programming. Reflecting on a growing interest in the field and its place within larger movements that uses creative strategies to drive social change, Dewhurst brings new research to bear on her interviews with educators, artists, and students to suggest clear, actionable approaches to facilitating the collaborative process of creating art for social change. In Social Justice Art Education, Dewhurst examines how to teach art-making to address systems of injustice, how to talk about the process, and the role of activist art projects not only in school classrooms but also within museum education, afterschool education, and other youth programming. In a new chapter, she introduces essential steps that prepare educators to engage in this work: recognizing power differentials, identifying community strengths, and nurturing relationships. Through real-world examples, Dewhurst highlights three key learning processes—connecting, questioning, and transforming—and frames a critical arts pedagogy that incorporates collaboration, inquiry-based discussion, and changemaking into arts curricula. This invigorating work provides common language and concrete support for educators and others who want to expand and refine their practices, empowering students through liberatory education that aims to inspire social change.Trade Review“This updated edition of an already invaluable book is a gift to all educators, not just those explicitly teaching art. It is for every one of us committed to embracing the many mediums through which young people create their own visions of new, more beautiful worlds.” —Carla Shalaby, coordinator of social justice initiatives and community internships, Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan“Social Justice Art Education offers clear pathways toward the endeavor’s ‘purposes, practices, and products’ while vividly illuminating its complexity for teachers, administrators, parents, funders, and policymakers. The field needs this book to avoid passionate superficiality by employing a simple framework to promote quality and depth as youth speak their minds.” —Lois Hetland, professor emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Thinking Like a Historian Rethinking History
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Scholastic US 12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays
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Brush Education Inc Creative Development: Transforming Education
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Modern Language Association of America Teaching World Literature
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting, and unsettling, time to be teaching world literature," writes David Damrosch. Because the range of works taught in world literature courses has expanded enormously, both historically and geographically, the task of selection—and of teacher preparation—has grown more challenging. Teachers of this field must grapple with such issues as coverage, cultural difference, and the role of translation in the classroom. Should one emphasize masterpieces or traditions, concepts or themes? How does one avoid making a work bear the burden of representing an entire tradition? To what extent should anthologies be used? Can a course be global in scope and yet focus on a few works, authors, moments?This collection of thirty-two essays in the MLA series Options for Teaching offers an array of solutions to these challenges, reflecting the wide variety of institutions, courses, and students described by the contributors. An annotated bibliography is provided, with a listing of useful Web sites.
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Teachers' College Press Music Education and Diversity Bridging Cultures
Book SynopsisProvides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, and examines some of the promises and pitfalls in shaping multicultural education through music.
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University of Alberta Press Sanctioned Ignorance The Politics of Knowledge
Book SynopsisBilingual literary scholar builds bridges spanning institutional silos to found an inclusive "literatures of Canada."Trade ReviewWhen it comes to the study of Canadian literature, scholars typically write about authors or texts, or sometimes the history of a particular period. But Paul Martin has taken the unconventional step of analyzing the discipline itself.. At times engaging and disconcerting, this book reveals what Martin believes is wrong with the current post-secondary approach to teaching our nation's English-language literature.. I found it insightful and disturbing, and it made me reflect on my own book choices for my Canadian literature classes. What's more, Martin doesn't simply indicate the problem; he offers readers possible ways out of the literary conundrum. For those in the discipline open to hearing Martin's frank observations, this book can be a rewarding experience. Thomas Hodd, Telegraph-Journal, February 1, 2014"Martin's book imagines a much more drastic shifting of the ground, a recognition of the actual cultural and linguistic diversity and quantity of the texts being created in Canada-not just an opening of the disciplinary field to more First Nations, black-Canadian or Asian-Canadian texts but a transforming of it to encompass all of the country's textual diversity. Not likely to happen. As Martin recognizes, too many people in the academy-students, teachers, researchers, editors and administrators-are now comfortable with the habitus of the Canadian Literature institution's 'sanctioned ignorance,' and have at least unconscious stakes in its continuance." Frank Davey Blog, January 12, 2014,http://bit.ly/1eNSD33"I have enjoyed reading the book... It is needed research!" Dr. Marie Vautier, University of Victoria"The jury members recognize Sanctioned Ignorance as a book that takes as its goal the troubling of our understandings of teaching Canadian literature in order to call for a greater complexity in canonical and divisional studies and challenge current systems of knowledge production in the study of Canadian literatures in post-secondary institutions. The task Martin undertakes, a reading of the literary landscape through the politics of context, pedagogy, and cultural dissemination, demands attention to the rich and too-often effaced legacies of diasporic, Francophone, and First Nations writers on the way to advocating a more expansive Canadian literary study that is no longer "a prisoner of its own amnesia." The committee was unanimous in their admiration for Martin's vital and far-reaching questions about the protocols and pitfalls of creating a Canadian national literature for the future. Jury comments, Gabrielle Roy Prize"[Paul Martin presents his results] with a keen awareness of how universities shape cultural consumers, as well as how the consecration and transmission of knowledge has a long echo effect. We need to analyze the nature of Canada's attitude toward its own culture, and Martin illuminates once again the degree of our cultural cringe, our colonial shyness about our own value..." Aritha van Herk, Alberta Views, June 2014"One of the best books on this subject is Paul Martin's Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of Literatures in Canada. It is so comprehensive and so subtle." John Lent, writer, editor, teacher"[Martin] suggests that, while Canadian literature in English has tended to be positioned in curricula as a minor subfield of the British tradition...Quebec universities have enjoyed greater scope to place littérature canadienne, especially québécois literature, at the centre of university programs since at least the 1960s... [Martin's] principal argument is that a survey of such data shows English Canadian universities constructing a kind of 'sanctioned ignorance' of Québécois literature..." -- Neta Gordon * Canadian Literature *
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Parallax Press Mindful Arts in the Classroom: Stories and
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Spring Publications Art and Soul
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New Village Press Works of Heart
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Peripeteia Press The Art of Writing English Literature Essays
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Brookside Suzuki Strings, LLC Music Practice Makeover
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