Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword
Janyce Hyatt
Preface
Jay Michael Hanes and Eleanor Weisman, Editors
Chapter 1
Introduction: Education, the Arts, and Resistance to the Neoliberal Condition
Jay Michael Hanes and Eleanor Weisman
Chapter 2
Becoming a Deweyan Apprentice: A Struggle against White Supremacy
Bill Bywater
Chapter 3
From Grief, Find Your Peace: Steve Prince and The Big Zipper Community
Steve Prince and Beth McCoy
Chapter 4
Chicago Consciousness: Democratic Reform, the Built Environment, and Sensorimotor Awareness
David C. Miller
Chapter 5
Devising Theatre: Imagination Meets Citizenship
Roberta Levine
Chapter 6
Flowers for Feynman: Natural Piety and the Aesthetics of Experience in the Experimental Spirit
Tibor Solymosi
Chapter 7
Inhibition as Fundamental: From Synapse to Classroom
Jeff Hollerman
Chapter 8
Coping Creatively, Imagining Democracy: Expressive Arts Therapy in an Urban Public School
Jessa M. Goldstein
Chapter 9
Disturbing the Peace: Community, Justice Learning, and Democratic Participation with Communities of Color
Heather Cherie Moore
Chapter 10
Get Woke: Radicalizing Imagination in the Interest of a Just Democracy
Morna McDermott
List of Contributors
