Editorial: Art for Life: Race, Gender, Disability and Class - Critical Discourses around Participation in Arts Education
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Adams, JeffAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2014-12-22
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A paradox that art educators often encounter in their work is that the arts, just as they are recognised for their universal and inclusive values, may also inadvertently reinforce elite and exclusive practices. Similarly, while the development of pedagogies for critical approaches to culture has positively impacted on a broad and diverse range of learners in all phases of education, the apparently democratic space of arts studio or classroom can also be a space that is governed by assessment regimes and educational conventions, and one which may also be characterised by reproduction, routine and a reliance on entrenched pedagogic practices. Such are the ways in which current arts-based educational practices may on one hand enable and include, but on the other disable and exclude. Given this state of affairs, to what extent can arts education promote an inclusive participation in ‘art for life’, and in what ways can it widen this participation? These were the questions and issues that delegates from sixteen countries at the 2013 iJADE/NSEAD research conference, held 15–16 November 2013 at the University of Chester Research and Innovation Centre, assembled to explore.Citation
Adams. J. (2014). Art for life: Race, gender, disability and class - critical discourses around participation in arts education: iJADE 2013 conference issue. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 33 (3), 288-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jade.12069Publisher
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adams. J. (2014). Art for life: Race, gender, disability and class - critical discourses around participation in arts education: iJADE 2013 conference issue. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 33 (3), 288-290, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jade.12069.This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.ISSN
1476-8062EISSN
1476-8070ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/jade.12069
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