Arts-Based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence

ISBN-13: 9781138286740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 190 str.

Susan Walsh; Barbara Bickel; Carl Leggo

Opis

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices and why this matters in education. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, performative autoethnography, music, and writing, this book creates respectful spaces for multiple artistic practices and spiritual traditions.

Recenzje

"This edited collection of lived research bringing together the arts and contemplative practice is an important contribution to the field of arts-based research." - Marni J. Binder, International Journal of Education through Art, Vol 12, No 2

O autorze

Susan Walsh is a writer/poet and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Her research involves contemplation, innovative forms of writing, and various artistic practices. Her publications appear in venues such as Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), and Teaching and teacher Education.

Barbara Bickel is an artist and Associate Professor of art education and Director of women, gender & sexuality studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. Her arts-based research appears in venues such as Journal of Arts and Community, Visual Arts Research, and Journal of Motherhood Initiatives, and her art has been exhibited across North America.

Carl Leggo is a poet and Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His books include: Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill; View from My Mother’s House; Come-By-Chance; Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom; and Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey.