Full Description
This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation. Alongside promoting educational practices with learners' civic engagement in mind, this book is a call to action, inviting creative educators to explore the potential of art for developing critical perspectives, articulating voices and diverse points of view, and engaging in dialogue across difference.
Chapters assist students and educators in understanding critical concepts ranging from the protections afforded art under the constitution, to the role of civic institutions such as museums, community arts centers, and schools in advancing civic participation. They also present the relationship between art, education, and civic engagement using watershed political moments such as voter suppression initiatives, xenophobic reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread national Black Lives Matter protests. Readers are guided throughout with a series of key questions at the onset of each chapter and encouraged to investigate further the issues discussed through exploration of the many resources embedded in each chapter. Coursework and participatory learning experiences that orient future and current art educators to the relationship of the arts and culture to democracy are also featured.
This book will be ideal for students in art education in both upper division undergraduate and graduate levels, with cross-curricular appeal for students of political science, social studies, sociology, public history, public anthropology, heritage studies, and public humanities. As well as this, it will be a must read for educators who are asked to respond to challenges within the political sphere, and how these political challenges are influencing educational environments.
Contents
Section 1: Theory: Developing a Democratic Imagination 1. Civics and the Arts: Developing Cultural Citizenship within Art Education 2. Limit Acts and Constructed Situations as Curriculum: Paulo Freire and the Situationist International 3. Transformative Learning Towards Socio-Ecological Consciousness and Civic Engagement: The Creative Potential of Nature Connection 4. Reproductive Justice as Feminist Art Education 5. An Affective and Sensory Civic Encounter: Examining Ableism and Civic Education through Arts Based Policy Research 6. Encountering the I Can't Breathe Mural: The Material Culture of Protest, Antiracism, and Art Education 7. Making Common Ground for Living: Strategies for Meaningful Intervention into Systemic and Structural Inequalities 8. Art Education for Democracy: The Experience of Who is American Today? Project 9. Global Music Communities and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age Section 2: Engagement: Creating as if Communities Matter 10. We Make the Road by Walking: Exploring Art Activist Pedagogy 11. Reimaginging YAAAS: Supporting the Well-being and Civic Potential of Resettled Refugee Youth Through Collaborative Artmaking 12. AMP!ify | Agitate | Disrupt: Civic Engagement and Political Clarity in Art Education 13. The Landscape is Turning: Narrative Collage as Sites of Civic Engagement 14. Engaging the Next Generation of Citizen Artists: How a Museum of Contemporary Art and a Chicago Public High School Partnered to Foster Informed and Activated Youth 15. Reflective Conversations Between Two Experienced Women Art Educators and Their Life-Long Involvement Through Civic Engagement 16. Utilizing Fugitive Pedagogies to Promote Civic Education in De Facto Segregated Schools 17. Combating Racial Pandemics and Advocating for the Invisible Through Art. 18. (Un)learning on the Sidewalk: Reclaiming Civic Engagement and Democracy in Public Art-making 19. Engaging Circles of Reflection: Indigenous Methodologies in Community-based Theatre
