ABSTRACT
This book presents 23 successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities.
The arts are a powerful means of fighting discrimination, marginalisation, neglect and even poverty. The educational programmes described in these chapters help stakeholders find solutions which are research-based, adaptable, repeatable and sustainable. Social problems that are addressed in this book include children living with physical challenges; suffering from financial and educational poverty; elderly women suffering from solitude; migrants facing a strange and not always welcoming cultural context; Roma youth fighting negative stereotypes and many more. Revealing the interconnectedness between social, economic and cultural exclusion, contributors planned interventions to develop skills, strengthen identities and build communities.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in the visual arts, art education, design education, drama and theatre education and museum pedagogy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction: Arts-based social interventions: Policy-oriented results of the AMASS project
part I|76 pages
Visual arts for social inclusion
chapter 2|7 pages
Dialogue as social sculpture: a visual method of graphic-ethnography for storytelling
chapter 4|9 pages
Teaching Mathematics through art
part II|20 pages
Drama-based interventions for social inclusion
chapter 849|8 pages
Developing and evaluating a theatre project for youth with intellectual disabilities
chapter 10|10 pages
Combatting ageism through participation in a theatre-making process and performance
part III|40 pages
Environmental and design education projects to promote social integration and environmental appropriation
chapter 14|8 pages
Spatial skills development for socially challenged children An in-service art teacher training programme
chapter 15|10 pages
AMASS-AMAS-WEIRD Community-based art education project in the Sápmi area, Finland
part IV|28 pages
Media-based social interventions Film, photography, and social media for empowerment and inclusion
chapter 14416|8 pages
#daimieiocchi: participatory photography workshops for marginalised young people in Italy Theoretical foundations and methods
chapter 17|8 pages
#daimieiocchi: Participatory photography workshops for marginalised young people in Italy Collaborative creation and results
part V|53 pages
Social interventions in nonformal settings