Community Arts Education (Paperback)

Paperback. This book offers global perspectives on art education as a distinctive practice that emerges from community relationships. Invoking transversality as a theoretical framework and a methodological structure, the fifty-five contributors to this volumecommunity professionals, scholars, artists, educators, and activists from sixteen countriesoffer studies and practical examples that explore the complexities of community arts education at all levels. These complexities include challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic; ongoing efforts to achieve justice for Indigenous peoples; immigration; the growing recognition of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace; among other challenges. The books chapters fall under four themesconnections, practices, spaces, and relationsthat map these and other intersecting assemblages of transversality. Thinking transversally about community art education shifts our understanding of knowledge from a passive construct to an active component of social life. This framework also redefines art education as a distinctive practice emerging from the intricate ties that form a community. 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 from sixteen countries offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts education. 30 col. 20 b/w illus. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…