Description
Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education.
Invoking ‘transversality’ as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors – community professionals, scholars, artists, educators and activists from sixteen countries – offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts education at all levels.
Such complexities include challenges created by globalizing phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic; ongoing efforts to achieve justice for Indigenous peoples; continuing movement of immigrants and refugees; growing recognition of issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace; and the increasing impact of grassroot movements and organizations.
Chapters are grouped into four thematic clusters – Connections, Practices, Spaces and Relations – that map these and other intersecting assemblages of transversality. Thinking transversally about community art education not only shifts our understanding of knowledge from a passive construct to an active component of social life but redefines art education as a distinctive practice emerging from the complex relationships that form community.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Ching-Chiu Lin
PART 1: Transversal Connections
Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Winter Journey: Exploring Comics, Adaptation and Community Art Education
Julian Lawrence
Chapter 2: The University as an Institute of Permanent Creation: Developing ‘a Gift for Living’ in Neoliberal Times
Raphael Vella
Chapter 3: Seeing What Unfolds: New Ways of Exploring Community Art Education in Formal Learning Spaces
Kathryn Coleman and Marnee Watkins
Chapter 4: ‘Making University’: The Role of Corporeality, Matter and Physical Spaces to Create a Sense of Community
Sara Carrasco Segovia
Chapter 5: I Wish You a Good Life: Embedding Intergenerational Learning Into Pre-Service Education Through Art, Community and Environment
Geraldine Burke
Chapter 6: Community-Based Art Education: Promoting Revitalization and Eco-Cultural Resilience for Cultural Sustainability
Timo Jokela and Mirja Hiltunen
Part 2: Transversal Practices
Chapter 7: Making Meaning, Creating (in) Community: An International Dialogue on Community Art Education Within Early Childhood Contexts
Geralyn (Gigi) Yu, Alex Halligey and Judith Browne
Chapter 8: Identifying Images as a Strategy for Emotional Interaction with the Environment: Neighbourhoods as Engraving Support
Jessica Castillo Inostroza
Chapter 9: We Are Small, but We Have Loud Voices: Children Leading the Way to Support Community Connections Through Art
Sue Girak
Chapter 10: Infernal Learning: Becoming Members of Academic Communities
Anniina Suominen, Tiina Pusa, Minna Suoniemi, Eljas Suvanto and Elina Julin
Chapter 11: Seeds in the Wind! A/r/tography School and Teacher Formation
Leisa Sasso and Mirian Celeste Martins
Chapter 12: Transversalities Through Transdisciplinary Pedagogies: A South African Perspective on Community Engaged Art Education
Merna Meyer
Chapter 13: Building Bridges in the Community Through Opening Minds Through Art: An Intergenerational Abstract Art Programme for People Living with Dementia
Stephanie H. Danker, Elizabeth Lokon and Casey Pax
Part 3: Transversal Spaces
Chapter 14: International Art Symposia as a Space of Knowledge Creation and Creative Engagement
Maria Huhmarniemi and Katja Juhola
Chapter 15: Collaborative Thinking, Creating and Learning on a Remote Greek Island: Towards Sustainable Community Art Education
Sophia Chaitas and Georgia Liarakou
Chapter 16: Finding Possibility in the Liminality of Socially Engaged Arts: Fostering Learning and Wellbeing with Refugee Youth
Kate Collins
Chapter 17: Conversations with Gardens: Artful Spaces in Community Art Education
Trish Osler
Chapter 18: Community Dance as an Approach to Reimagine Place in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Pauline Hiroti and Rose Martin
Chapter 19: Pedagogical Implications in La Austral, S.V. de C.V.: A Collective Performative-Storytelling Project by Artist Pablo Helguera and DREAMers
Eunji Lee
Chapter 20: Community Arts Education: Experiencing and Creating Our World
Shelley Hannigan and Merinda Kelly
Part 4: Transversal Relations
Chapter 21: Colors of Connection: Public Art Making as an Activating Force for Community Art Education
Lynn Sanders-Bustle, Christina Mallie and Laurie Reyman
Chapter 22: Residing in Pedagogical Spaces Through Community Cultural Production
Jing Li
Chapter 23: Intercultural Eye for Art: Becoming a Member of a Global Community Through Arts-Based Exchange
Kazuyo Nakamura, Hye-Seung (Theresa) Kang, Wataru Inoue, Leah H. Morgan, Hisae Aoyama, Hannah Shuler, Atsuo Nakashima, Cheryl J. Maxwell, Takunori Okamoto and Mari Sankyo
Chapter 24: The Creation of a Community Teaching Artist Certificate Programme: Professionalization in the Gig Economy
Dustin Garnet
Chapter 25: Creative for Life: Planning and Delivering Intergenerational Art Programmes
Jodie Davidson and Miles Openshaw
Chapter 26: Croatian Naïve Art as an Incentive for Multimodal Research with Children
Helena Burić and Nikolina Fišer Sedinić
Chapter 27: Visual Ecologies: Artistic Research Transversing Stable, Dynamic and Interstitial Relations in an Australian Settler Colonial Context
Kim Snepvangers
Notes on Contributors
