Product Overview
Art and Social Justice Education offersinspiration and tools for educatorsto craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a section written by and for teachers who have already incorporatedcontemporary artistsand ideas into their curriculums help readers to imagine ways to use the content in their own settings.This book is enhanced by aCompanion Website (www.routledge.com/cw/quinn) featuring artists and artworks, project examples, and dialogue threads for educators.
Proposing that art can contribute in a wide range of ways to the work of envisioning and making a more just world, this imaginative, practical, and engaging sourcebookof contemporary artistsworks and education resources advances the field of arts education, locally, nationally, and internationally, by moving beyond models of discipline-based or expressive art education. It will be welcomed by all educators seeking to include the arts and social justice in their curricula.
