• ISBN13: 9781137555847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
• Publication Date: February 21, 2017
• Pages: 572
• Original Price: EUR 249.99
• Language: English
• Edition: 2017
• Item Weight: 1252 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities and General

This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education across the world. It is divided into six sections; Contextualising Arts Education, Globally and Locally; Arts Education, Curriculum, Policy and Schooling; Arts Education Across the Life Span; Arts Education for Social Justice: Indigenous and Community Practice; Health, Wellbeing and Arts Education and Arts-Based and Research-Informed Arts Education. The Handbook explores global debates within education in the areas of dance, drama, music, media and visual arts. Presenting wide-ranging research from pedagogies of adaptation developed in Uganda to ethnomusicology in Malaysia and community participatory arts to wellbeing in Canada the Handbook highlights the universal need for arts education and in particular the importance of indigenous (including both traditional and contemporary practice) arts education. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars andpractitioners and building on the World Alliance for Arts Education Global Summit in 2014, the Handbook creates an essential resource for arts education practices in and out of school alongside institutional, traditional and contemporary contexts. Students, teachers and practitioners across the arts disciplines will find the text invaluable for developing further opportunities to promote and study arts education.

Georgina Barton is Senior Lecturer and Program Director in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on arts education, literacy, multimodality and internationalisation. She was Executive Director of the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) Global Summit in 2014, and is Associate Editor for the journal Literacy Learning: The Middle Years.
Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor in arts education, curriculum and pedagogy in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include visual arts education, creative collaboration, teacher identity and strengthening links between schools and universities. She is currently Conference Chair of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), and a World Councillor for the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA).