A/R/TOGRAPHY: Essential Readings and Conversations

Editors: Rita L. Irwin, Alexandra Lasczik, Anita Sinner and Valerie Triggs

Publisher: Intellect Books

The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. Working around four pervasive themes found in a/r/tographic literature, this volume addresses relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials.

In doing so, it advances concepts that have permeated a/r/tographic literature to date. The organizing themes offer conceptual pivots for thinking through how a/r/tography was first conceptualized and how it has evolved and how it might further evolve

InSEA members wishing to claim the discount [20%] can access the code needed at Members Reading Space on our website

Professional Learning for Artist Teachers: Pedagogy, Practice and Partnership in UK Contexts

Editor: Rachel Payne

Publisher: Open University Press, McGraw Hill

In Professional Learning for Artist Teachers: Pedagogy, Practice and Partnership in UK Contexts, Rachel Payne brings together innovative discourse from academics, artists, researchers and professionals working for cultural organisations to support the symbiosis of artist and teacher.

Professional Learning for Artist Teachers is a book of balance, combining theory and practice to offer pedagogic strategies, and placing great importance on individual contexts while considering external factors.

Offering pedagogic and practical insights drawing from the contributing authors' extensive experience, this book will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students alike.

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The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education

Editors: Manisha Sharma & Amanda Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines. Visual and traditional essays in this book combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. Across three sections (creative shorts, enacted encounters, and ruminative research), a diverse group of authors address themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital realm. Chapters highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers grapple with decolonial methods, theories, and strategies—in research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice. Each chapter includes discursive questions and resources for further engagement with the topics at hand. The book is targeted towards scholars and practitioners of art education, studio art, and art history, K-12 art teachers, as well as artist educators and teaching artists in museums and communities. InSEA members wishing to claim the discount [20%] can access the code needed at Members Reading Space on our website

Pedagogies of Taking Care: Art, Pedagogy and the Gift of Otherness

Author: Dennis Atkinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury

This book considers the notion of care and civic values in education largely devalued today by neoliberal forces of individualism and hyper-competition. It advocates, in the context of art education and education more generally, an ethico-politics of pedagogic practice through the notion of  pedagogies of taking care. This includes paying due attention with empathy to each learner's pathways of learning, to their divergence and difference. Equally this also necessitates teachers being vigilant or taking care towards their pedagogical frameworks that inform their practice. Pedagogies of taking care call for plural pedagogies or even we might essay, pagan pedagogies, that are not controlled by particular interests, such as the economy, but are able to be responsive to and then extend the yet unknown potentials of learning and in doing so, expand pedagogical practice itself.

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Teaching Art Creatively

Author: Penny Hay

Publisher: Routledge

Teaching Art Creatively offers a new model of visual arts education in the primary years. Illustrated throughout with examples of exciting projects, children’s work and case studies of good practice, it will be essential reading for every professional who wishes to embed creative approaches to teaching in their classroom.

Teaching Art Creatively is packed with ideas and inspiration to enrich teachers' knowledge and understanding of art and design in the primary classroom. It synthesises the philosophical and practical elements of teaching, encouraging a move away from traditional didactic approaches to contemporary classroom pedagogies to develop children’s creative potential. This is a must-read for all teachers and intending teachers!

Online book launch! Meet the author: 8 December at 1800 GMT. Free, but you must book at the InSEA Box Office

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