Edited book
Beyond Community Engagement: transforming dialogues in art, education and the cultural sphere
Common Ground Publishing
30/06/2018
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Abstract
This book reconsiders fundamental questions about relationships between community engagement, art and education within cultural spheres. Transdisciplinary chapters bring together researchers as “insider-practitioners” to challenge assumptions and offer new insights about practice, engagement and possibilities for transformation. The chapters reflect both localised projects and international perspectives on ecologies of practice as a key marker of the mobility of ideas as well as social mobility. Addressing socially engaged, informal pedagogy re-examines the aesthetic possibilities of social capital in the public domain. Re-considering contributions of education and research through transfer of knowledge and expertise across small social collectives, partnerships and larger institutional agencies is a growing practice. Examining equity and types of participation alongside issues of local and global significance is emergent in new, pop-up and continuing communities. Gauging social impact through case studies is an important project within the tertiary sector to ensure that critically reflexive visual research methodologies gain currency within contemporary neo-liberal funding and educational agendas. In the current milieux we ask, is all engagement transformative, educative, sustainable and linked to democratizing principles that address civic agendas? Re-imagining sites/situations of learning, culture and place as “practice encounters” utilises practices relevant for educators and practitioners. Applications of ecology, practice architectures and site ontologies inform broader social challenges. Conceiving arts-based research as a network, prioritises transitions and becomings to re-conceptualise the significance of relationships within local/global connectivity. Linking professional networks and agencies to adaptive communities, creates an expanded field of real world creative partnerships to enable changing pedagogies.
Details
- Title
- Beyond Community Engagement: transforming dialogues in art, education and the cultural sphere
- Contributors
- K L Snepvangers (Editor) - University of New South WalesD Mathewson-Mitchell (Editor) - Charles Sturt University
- Publisher
- Common Ground Publishing; Champaign, Illinois
- Number of pages
- 318
- Identifiers
- 9781863350013; 1863350012; 991012935085002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Edited book