{"product_id":"artistteacher-practice-and-the-expectation-of-an-aesthetic-life-9781032259413","title":"ArtistTeacher Practice and the Expectation of an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores why and how the personal creative practice of arts teachers in school matters. It responds to ethnographic research that considers specific works-of-art created by teachers within the context of their classrooms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a classroom-based ethnographic investigation, the book proposes that the potential impact of artist-teacher practice in the classroom can only be understood in relation to the flows of power and policy that concurrently shape the classroom. It shows how artist-teacher practice functions as a creative practice of freedom tending to the present and future aesthetic life of the classroom, countering the effects of neoliberal schooling and austerity politics. The book questions what the artist-teacher can produce within that context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the unique focus on artist-teacher practice, the book explores the changing nature of the classroom and the social and political dimensions of the school. It will be key reading for res\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am delighted to see the publication of\u003ci\u003e Artist-Teacher-Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life. \u003c\/i\u003eThis book, with its excellent combination of sophisticated theory and frontline ethnographic research,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003emakes a vitally important contribution to research into the concept and practices of the artist-teacher movement. The author has a strong personal grounding in the classroom as an artist teacher herself that has enabled her to make this powerful analysis of the movement in context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Adams, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Chester; Fellow of the National Society for Education in Art and Design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Imagining new orientations for researching artist-teacher practice in neoliberal spaces through the inspiration of new materialisms and new pragmatisms. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Classroom ways-of-being\u003c\/strong\u003e. Introduction to Part 1. Turn 1: Artist-teacher practice, site-responsiveness and the classroom as aesthetic movement. Turn 2: Artist-teacher practice and creative, transformative, therapeutic objects in the classroom. Turn 3: Artist-teacher practice, becoming the ideal teacher and the disorientation of classroom subjects. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Being less-than\u003c\/strong\u003e. Introduction to Part 2. Turn 4: Reading about knowledge with Bourdieu and Bernstein: Artist-teacher practice, School Art and powerful knowing. Turn 5: Reading about creativity with Deleuze and Foucault: Artist-teacher practice, neoliberalism and the impossible ideal. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Becoming more than...\u003c\/strong\u003e Introduction to Part 3. Turn 6: Reading Rancière and Dewey with Jane Bennet: Reconfiguring the politics of the classroom through artist-teacher practice as a third-thing. Turn 7: The gendering of artist-teacher practice: Nurturing the expectation of an aesthetic life through third-site encounters. Conclusion: Sharing responsibility for a life lived aesthetically with art and design education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359311462743,"sku":"9781032259413","price":37.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032259413.jpg?v=1754124283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/artistteacher-practice-and-the-expectation-of-an-aesthetic-life-9781032259413","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}