Wexler argues that the arts are most effective when they are in service of social growth, critical to identity formation. This book balances theory with practical knowledge and offers critical research that challenges the biases regarding the nature of art and education.
Wexler argues that the arts are most effective when they are in service of social growth, critical to identity formation. This book balances theory wi...
"Detailed and evocative. . . . Wexler re-creates a picture of a long-ago place where doctors lived next-door to their patients and where generation after generation of a community's most prominent members struggled with a crippling disease."-Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research.
"Detailed and evocative. . . . Wexler re-creates a picture of a long-ago place where doctors lived next-door to their patients and where generation af...