1st Edition

Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy

By Malcolm Ross Copyright 2011
228 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy , Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five Phases of Change, with contemporary Western psychological and cultural studies, to form a new... Read more

Prologue  Introduction  Part 1. Theoretical  1. Towards a Participatory Practice  2. The Syncretic Model  3. The Syncretic Model Applied  4. Art and the Brain  5. The Tusa Interviews  Part 2. Practical  6. The Irresponsibility of an Art Teacher  7. On Creativity  8. Cultivating the Arts in Education  9. Cultivating the Arts in Therapy  10. Valedictory  Epilogue  Bibliography  Appendix 1. Good Habits   Appendix 2. Dangerous Play

Biography

Malcolm Ross is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.