International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education and Art

Front cover......Page 1
Preliminary Pages......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface: The Politics of International Art Education......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part 1: Global Perspectives......Page 20
 Creativity and Culture: Redefining Knowledge Through the Arts in Education for the Local in a Globalized World......Page 22
 Folk Arts and Traditional Media in Environmental Education......Page 34
 Leading to Creativity: Responding to Policy in Art Education......Page 40
 Post-colonization and Art Education: Standards, Aesthetics and the Place of the Art Museum......Page 50
Part 2: Critical Pedagogy......Page 62
 Between Circumstances and Controversies: Proposals for a Visual Arts Critical Pedagogy......Page 64
 Cultural Literacy: An Arts-based Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for the Creation of Democratic Multicultural Societies......Page 70
 Social Justice Through Curriculum: Investigating Issues of Diversity......Page 82
 Contemporary Artworks as Sites for Identity Research......Page 98
 Face (in) the Mirror......Page 112
Part 3: New Technologies......Page 120
 Blended Learning in Art Education: New Ways of Improving Visual Literacy......Page 122
 Developing a Learning Environment for Drama with Hypermedia......Page 132
 Implications of Media Technology-based Workshops for Art Education......Page 142
 Creating, Developing and Maintaining a Digital Magazine: Revista Digital Art&......Page 150
Part 4: Community and Environment......Page 160
 Sementinha: School Under the Mango Tree......Page 162
 Cultural Brokerage and Regional Arts: Developing an Enabler Model for Cultural and Economic Sustainability......Page 172
 Art, Ecology and the Giant Sequoia Project......Page 182
 The Visual Arts and Development of Marine Ecological Values: The WorldFish Center Project......Page 188
 Environmental Art and Community Art Learning in Northern Places......Page 198
Part 5: Art Education for Peace......Page 212
 The Iraqi War Through Our Eyes......Page 214
 Art Educators\' Positions on Violent Conflict in Israel......Page 224
 Fostering Community Cohesion Through Visual Arts: An \'Art for Peace\' Project with Young British-Muslim Girls......Page 232
 Children\'s Pictures in the Aftermath of War. What do they Tell Us?......Page 244
Postscript: Children\'s Drawings......Page 256
 The Ethiopian Village in Jewish Children\'s Drawings......Page 258
 Young Adults\' Constructions of Meaning in Child Art......Page 266
About the Contributors......Page 270
Index......Page 276
Back Cover......Page 281