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Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life book cover

1st Edition

Schools and Cultural Citizenship Arts Education for Life

By Pat Thomson, Christine Hall Copyright 2023
178 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both critical appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study in partnership with the Royal... Read more

    1. Introducing the Tracking Arts Learning and Engagement research;  2. Arts rich schools;  3. The arts broker teacher;  4. Immersive professional development;  5. Signature arts pedagogies;  6. The art of mediation;  7. Students’ perspectives on cultural capital;  8. The school arts effect;  9. Cultural citizenship;  10. Afterword: the arts rich school ecology

    Biography

    Pat Thomson is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK and Convenor of the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy (CRACL). She was previously a school principal in disadvantaged schools in Australia.

    Christine Hall is Emeritus Professor and former Head of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.

    Their collaborative work on the signature pedagogies of artists working in schools is widely cited and informs the work of Creativity Culture and Education in Europe, Australia, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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