Connecting the Past and the Present

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-73
Author(s):  
Carolina Eve Blatt-Gross
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Course Content ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Community Based Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Student Apathy

Given our deep history of socially-situated artmaking and the human propensity for learning in social contexts, participation in community art offers a wealth of educational potential. Supported by research from neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, education and the arts, as well as concrete examples from higher education, this chapter will outline the theoretical basis for a curriculum rich in community art and establish such practices as a potential antidote to student apathy in contemporary classrooms. This body of interdisciplinary research situates community-based art education at the intersection of transformative community art, social learning theory, and student engagement. By first generating a community of practice within the classroom, then providing students with an opportunity to apply course content, contribute to their immediate culture, and take advantage of some of our most entrenched educational tendencies, community-based art education can be invaluable to student learning and engagement.

Connecting the Past and the Present

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Eve Blatt-Gross
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Course Content ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Community Based Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Student Apathy

Given our deep history of socially-situated artmaking and the human propensity for learning in social contexts, participation in community art offers a wealth of educational potential. Supported by research from neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, education and the arts, as well as concrete examples from higher education, this chapter will outline the theoretical basis for a curriculum rich in community art and establish such practices as a potential antidote to student apathy in contemporary classrooms. This body of interdisciplinary research situates community-based art education at the intersection of transformative community art, social learning theory, and student engagement. By first generating a community of practice within the classroom, then providing students with an opportunity to apply course content, contribute to their immediate culture, and take advantage of some of our most entrenched educational tendencies, community-based art education can be invaluable to student learning and engagement.

scholarly journals Superdiversiteit en culturele mobiliteit in Europees hoger onderwijs: een casestudie in culturele geschiedenis

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Ludo Beheydt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
Course Content ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Persistence ◽  
Cultural Mobility

The present article shows how the changing societal context in Europe is imposing a reshaping of the internationalisation of higher education. It argues that internationalisation has mainly focused on intensifying the mobility of students and staff, but has neglected the drastic change in European society brought about by “super-diversity” (Vertovec, “Super-diversity” and Super-diversity), that “diversification of diversity” which, over a couple of decades, has transformed the population of Europe into a highly complex mixture of people from different places, with different languages, religions and cultures. The consequence of this sudden change is that there is now an urgent need to “move beyond mobility” and to reshape internationalisation through “cultural mobility” (Greenblatt) in course content and learning styles. The second part of this article elaborates on a proposal for concrete course content in line with Greenblatt’s manifest to modify conventional ways of thinking about mobility. Taking account of “cultural mobility”, the proposed course in the Cultural History of the Arts tries to create a balance between cultural persistence and cultural change by introducing international content and interculturalism. The case study thereby highlights possible directions for future internationalised course development.

scholarly journals Three Initiatives for Community-Based Art Education Practices

Art Education ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lim ◽  
Eunjung Chang ◽  
Borim Song
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Art

Women Who Fly

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serinity Young
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

The desire to transcend the mundane and the terrestrial, and to reach new heights of spiritual experience, has been expressed through myths, folk tales, and the arts throughout the world and across centuries. Flight from both the captivity of earth’s gravity and the mental constraints of time-bound desire are the backbone of myth-making. Women and goddesses have figured prominently in such myths, both as independent actors and as guides for men. Women Who Fly is a history of religious and social ideas about such aerial females as expressed in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. It is also about the varied symbolic uses of women in mythology, religion, and society that have shaped, and continue to shape, our social and psychological reality. The motif of the flying female is an intriguing and unstudied area of the history of both religion and iconography. It is a broad topic. Rather than place restrictions on this theme (or its imagery), or force it into the confines of any one discipline or cultural perspective, the goal here instead is to celebrate its thematic and cultural diversity, while highlighting commonalities and delineating the religious and social contexts in which it developed. Aerial women are surprisingly central to any full and accurate understanding of the similarities between various religious imaginations, through which these flying females have carved trajectories over time.

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