Creative Critical Pedagogies: Using Arts-Based Approaches for Online and In-Person Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest global disruption of education processes and systems in history, forcing diverse educators within schools, universities, communities, and nonprofit organizations to shift the ways in which they deliver knowledge. Transitioning from face-to-face learning to online learning posed many challenges for both education and learning, while simultaneously creating the opportunity for teachers to generate, cultivate, and implement creative teaching strategies.

Creative Critical Pedagogies: Using Arts-Based Approaches for Online and In-Person Learning centers diverse arts-based pedagogical approaches used in online and in-person teaching as many educators transitioned back to face-to-face instruction. Incorporating the voices of diverse interdisciplinary educators, the edited volume highlights practical and applied strategies that are designed to engage learners, support the development of student interaction, cultivate a sense of community within classrooms, and sustain learner interest in and accountability to course content. Each contributing author promotes critical and socially engaged teaching and learning through the arts and creative approaches. Pedagogical approaches highlighted in the book include literary techniques, performance, visual arts, music, new media, and eclectic creative approaches.

Developed to help educators across the disciplines determine innovative and effective teaching modalities in a post-pandemic world, Critical Creative Pedagogies is an exemplary textbook for courses and programs in education.

Moshoula Capous-Desyllas is a professor in the Sociology Department at California State University, Northridge. She is an arts-based researcher committed to participating in anti-oppressive and decolonizing research practices, as well as engaging in social justice issues through art.

Eleni Papouli is an associate professor of social work at the University of West Attica. She holds a B.S.W from Technological Institute of Athens, an M.A. from the University of East Anglia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex.