Full Description
The chapters in Art as an Agent for Social Change, presented as snapshots, focus on exploring the power of drama, dance, visual arts, media, music, poetry and film as educative, artistic, imaginative, embodied and relational art forms that are agents of personal and societal change. A range of methods and ontological views are used by the authors in this unique contribution to scholarship, illustrating the comprehensive methodologies and theories that ground arts-based research in Canada, the US, Norway, India, Hong Kong and South Africa.
Weaving together a series of chapters (snapshots) under the themes of community building, collaboration and teaching and pedagogy, this book offers examples of how Art as an Agent for Social Change is of particular relevance for many different and often overlapping groups including community artists, K-university instructors, teachers, students, and arts-based educational researchers interested in using the arts to explore social justice in educative ways. This book provokes us to think critically and creatively about what really matters!
Contents
Foreword
Judith Marcuse
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 In Focus: Snapshots of Social Change through the Arts
Mindy R. Carter, Claudia Mitchell and Hala Mreiwed
PART 1: Community Building
2 "Imagining Things Being Otherwise": Rethinking Community and the Art Museum Experience
Sage Kincaid and Callan Steinmann
3 Voices from the Heart: Using Community and Art to Foster Social Change in Pre-Service Teachers
Sheryl Smith-Gilman
4 Art Hive: A Relational Framework for Social Change
Leah Lewis, Heather McLeod and Xuemei Li
5 The Murder Next Door: Developing Healing Responses and Building Community Following Trauma Using Research-Based Theatre
Rosemary C. Reilly
6 Lost in Transition: Brecht's Theatre as a Social Change Agent for Youth Empowerment in the Time of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Hong Kong Handover
Lo Wai Luk and Ho Ka Lee Carrie
7 Making Stone Soup: Arts-Based Organisational Interventions and Participants' Communication, Teamwork, and Sense of Wellbeing
Mariam Ugarte and Warren Linds
8 Visions of Hope in Education: Fostering Student Teachers' Identities of Becoming Agents of Change through a Photo Competition and Exhibition
Avivit M. Cherrington
9 Empty Jars: Using Memoration to Confront the Settler Colonial Project through Arts-Based Research
Deanna Del Vecchio
PART 2: Collaborations
10 Walking with Wonder: Attunement to the Senses and Relationality in Photographic Inquiry
Amélie Lemieux and Boyd White
11 Expression and Action for Change: A Contemporary Arts Center and School Collaboration
Deborah Randolph and Karen Morris
12 Moving beyond Celebration toward Action: Affordances and Tensions in Screening and Audiencing Cellphilms and Participatory Verbatim Films
Casey Burkholder and Matt Rogers
13 Cameraless Film-Making in the Education Classroom: A Professor-Student Artistic Collaboration
Lisa A. Mitchell and Kerri Kennedy
14 Choreography as Poetic, Pedagogical, and Political Action in Contemporary Times
Tone Pernille Østern
15 Teaching the Mind-body: Integrating Knowledges through Circus Arts
Madeline Hoak, Alisan Funk and Dan Berkley
16 Contemplative Arts-Based Practices in Education
Giang Hoang Le Nguyen, Trinh Ngoc Phuong Bui and Jodi Latremouille
17 The Generative Act of Critical Pedagogy: Animating Children's Books and Games as Research Practice
Sue Uhlig, Amy Migliore and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
PART 3: Teaching & Pedagogy
18 Our Words Flowing into Wide Futures: Making a Difference through Poetic Professional Learning
Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan
19 Eight Weeks, Eight Verses: Using Arts-Based Inquiry to Explore Educator Subjectivity and Reflexivity during a Time of Social Change
Marguerite Müller and Frans Kruger
20 Dear Artemisia: Art as Transformation in Sexual Violence Prevention
Victoria Dickman-Burnett
21 Fiction for Social Change: Addressing Gender in and through Popular Films
Esther Armaignac
22 Unconscious Acts: An Auto-Ethnographic Investigation into Euro-Centric White Normative Consciousness in Theatre Training Programs in Canada
Makram R. Ayache
23 A Pedagogy of Presence: Attending to Context, Process, Being, and Belonging
Rébecca Bourgault
24 Conceptualising a Black Feminist Arts Pedagogy: Looking Back to Look Forward
Amber C. Coleman
25 Working Toward Sustainable Creative Social Justice Practices: Advancing Equity and Justice in the Academy
Amanda Claudia Wager and Kristen P. Goessling
