ABSTRACT
A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. 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 as a way to make something possible, it explores and illustrates the elements of social justice arts education as "a way out of no way" imposed by dominance and ideology. A set of powerful demonstrations shows how this work looks in action. Introductions to the book as a whole and to each section focus on how to use the chapters pedagogically. The conclusion pulls back the chapters into theoretical and pedagogical context and suggests what needs done to be done practically, empirically, and theoretically, for the field to continue to develop.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |128 pages
Models of the Arts as Social Justice
chapter |10 pages
Storytelling for Social Justice
chapter |11 pages
Using Theater to Promote Social Justice in Communities
chapter |11 pages
Kindling the Imagination
chapter |12 pages
The Arts and Juvenile Justice Education
chapter |12 pages
Pushing Against the Water
chapter |13 pages
Picturing Equity in City Schools
chapter |11 pages
Tackling Homophobia and Heterosexual Privilege in the Media Arts Classroom
part |87 pages
Theorizing and Reflections