Arts-based Methods and Organizational Learning: Higher Education Around the World (Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319638076 ISBN 13: 9783319638072

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This thematic volume explores the relationship between the arts and learning in various educational contexts and across cultures, but with a focus on higher education and organizational learning. Arts-based interventions are at the heart of this volume, which addresses how they are conceived, designed, carried out, and assessed in different higher educational and cultural contexts. Readers will discover diverse perspectives of the contributing authors from across the world and from a variety of settings: formal education, informal learning for adults and organisational learning. A necessary introductory conceptualisation sets the stage for the discussion of the different cases, with chapters presented according to the art forms the address: performing arts, dance, music, language arts, visual arts, multi-arts and a conclusive chapter on future perspectives for arts-based educational approaches. Arts-based Methods and Organisational Learning: Higher Education Around the World will inspire and inform both scholars and practitioners who are dealing with the arts in education and organisations.

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About the Author

Tatiana Chemi is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has been involved in research projects examining artistic creativity, arts-integrated educational designs in schools and the role of emotions in learning. Her research currently focuses on theatre laboratories pedagogies and co-creative learning environments in the arts. 

Xiangyun Du (杜翔云) is a Professor in the Department of Learning and Philosophy and director of the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main research interests include innovative teaching and learning in education, in which she has published extensively. 

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This thematic volume explores the relationship between the arts and learning in various educational contexts and across cultures, but with a focus on higher education and organizational learning. Arts-based interventions are at the heart of this volume, which addresses how they are conceived, designed, carried out, and assessed in different higher educational and cultural contexts. Readers will discover diverse perspectives of the contributing authors from across the world and from a variety of settings: formal education, informal learning for adults and organisational learning. A necessary introductory conceptualisation sets the stage for the discussion of the different cases, with chapters presented according to the art forms the address: performing arts, dance, music, language arts, visual arts, multi-arts and a conclusive chapter on future perspectives for arts-based educational approaches. Arts-based Methods and Organisational Learning: Higher Education Around the World will inspire and inform both scholars and practitioners who are dealing with the arts in education and organisations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319638076
• ISBN 13: 9783319638072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 361
• Editor: Chemi Tatiana, Du Xiangyun