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Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

A Way Out of No Way

Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone

To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge – 240 pages

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    Description

    A groundswell of interest has led to a significant advance in understanding and using the arts to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors— Culturally Responsive Arts Education. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, creativity, resilience, critique and cultural knowledge, working against prevailing understandings of marginalized groups as having deficits of knowledge, skills, or culture. Emphasizing the arts a way to make something possible, it explores and illustrates the elements of social justice arts education as “a way out of the no way out” imposed by dominance and ideology. This book establishes the intellectual baseline for the future use of the arts to advance social justice and education and offers a set of powerful demonstrations showing how this work looks in action.

    Contents

    Contents

    Preface

    Introduction: Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    Mary Stone Hanley

    Section I: Models of the Arts as Social Justice

    Section Introduction

    1 Storytelling for Social Justice: Creating Arts-Based Counter-Stories to Resist Racism

    2 Theater as Ritual for Healing and Social Change

    3 Scratching the Imagination: Siglo XXIII and the AHA-AJA Museum for Planetary and Global Citizenship

    4 Documentary Theatre in Education: Empathy Building as a Tool for Social Change

    5 What the Music Said: Hip Hop as a Transformative Educational Tool

    6 The Arts and Juvenile Justice Education: Unlocking the Light through Youth Arts and Teacher Development

    7 Pushing Against the Water: Artists and Sense of Place Museum Residency Program in New Orleans

    8 Picturing Equity in City Schools: Using Photography to See What Justice Means to Urban High School Students

    9 Editing Lives: The Justice of Recognition through Documentary Film Production

    10 Tackling Homophobia and Heterosexual Privilege in the Media Arts Classroom: A Teacher’s Account

    11 Exploring Arts-Based Inquiry for Social Justice in Graduate Education

    Section II

    Section Introduction

    12 Narrowing in on the Answers: Dissecting Social Justice Art Education

    13 From the Plantation to the Margin: Artful Teaching and the Sociological Imagination

    14 The Beauty Parlour Within Me

    15 African American Children, Arts of Africa and the Diaspora, and the Right to Freedom of Thought

    16 Closure: A Critical Look at the Foreclosure Crisis in Words and Images

    17 The Studio: an Environment for the Development of Social Justice in Teaching and Learning

    18 Embody the Dance, Embrace the Body

    Closing Gilda Sheppard

    About the Authors

    Author Bio

    Mary Stone Hanley is Assistant Professor in Initiatives for Transformative Education, George Mason University.

    Gilda L. Sheppard is Professor of Sociology at Washington State’s The Evergreen State College and Adjunct Faculty member at Antioch University Seattle Teacher Education Program.

    George W. Noblit is the Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Thomas Barone is Professor at Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, Arizona State University.

    Name: Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone. A groundswell of interest has led to a significant advance in understanding and using the arts to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors— Culturally Responsive Arts...
    Categories: Equality & Human Rights, Arts, Contemporary Art