Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame - Hardcover

Naidus, Beverly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1613320639 ISBN 13: 9781613320631

Publisher: New Village Press, 2009

Synopsis

Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist's passion for creating art that matters.
How can polarized groups work together to solve social and environmental problems? How can art be used to raise consciousness? Using candid examination of her own university teaching career as well as broader social and historical perspectives, Beverly Naidus answers these questions, guiding the reader through a progression of steps to help students observe the world around them and craft artistic responses to what they see. Interviews with over 30 arts education colleagues provide additional strategies for successfully engaging students in what, to them, is most meaningful.

About this title

About the Author

Beverly Naidus works in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the University of Washington in Tacoma, where she is co-creating a studio arts program (Arts in Community) with a focus on art for social change and healing.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Village Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1613320639
• ISBN 13: 9781613320631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239