Arts-Based Methods in Education Around the World: (River Publishers Series in Innovation and Change in Education)

Arts-Based Methods in Education Around the World aims to investigate arts-based encounters in educational settings in response to a global need for studies that connect the cultural, inter-cultural, cross-cultural, and global elements of arts-based methods in education. In this extraordinary collection, contributions are collected from experts all over the world and involve a multiplicity of arts genres and traditions. These contributions bring together diverse cultural and educational perspectives and include a large variety of artistic genres and research methodologies. The topics covered in the book range from policies to pedagogies, from social impact to philosophical conceptualisations. They are informative on specific topics, but also offer a clear monitoring of the ways in which the general attention to the arts in education evolves through time.

Table of Contents:
• Arts-based Methods in Education – A Global Perspective • Artistry in teaching, A choreographic approach to studying the performative dimensions of teaching • New and different: student participation in artist-school partnerships • Designing activities for teaching music improvisation in preschools - evaluating outcomes and tools • Revisiting Japanese multimodal drama performance as child-centred performance ethnography: picture-mediated reflection on ‘Kamishibai’ as bodily drama play experience • Relationships of knowing, doing, and being The Accordion Book Project: Reflections on Learning and Teaching • Practice-based reflections of enabling agency through arts-based methodological ir/responsibility • How can inspiration be encouraged in art learning? • What are the Enabling and What are the Constraining Aspects of the Subject of Drama in Icelandic Compulsory Education? • The Art of Co-creating Arts-based Possibility Spaces for Fostering STE(A)M Practices in Primary Education

About the Author :
Tatiana Chemi, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Chair of Educational Innovation, where she works in the field of artistic learning and creative processes. She is the author of many published articles and reports and is also the author of Art-based Approaches. A Practical Handbook to Creativity at Work, Fokus Forlag, 2006, Kunsten at integrere kunst i undervisning [The art of integrating the arts in education], Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2012, In the Beginning Was the Pun: Comedy and Humour in Samuel Beckett's Theatre, Aalborg University Press, 2013 and The Art of Arts Integration, Aalborg University Press, 2014. In 2013, Aalborg University Press named her Author of the Year. Her latest work focuses on distributed creativity, artistic creativity and artistic partnerships published in the following contributions: with Jensen, J. B. & Hersted, L., Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2015; "Distributed Problem-Solving: How Artists' Participatory Strategies Can Inspire Creativity in Higher Education." In Zhou, C. (Ed.). Handbook of Research on Creative Problem-Solving Skill Development in Higher Education. IGI global. 2016; "The Teaching Artist as Cultural Learning Entrepreneur: An Introductory Conceptualization." In Teaching Artist Journal. 2015. 13, 2, pp. 84-94. With Xiangyun Du she edited Arts-based Methods and Organisational Learning: Higher Education Around the World, soon to be published for the Palgrave Series Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities and she is preparing for the Palgrave Series Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective, Arts-based Education - China and its intersection with the world (Du, Chemi & Wang, eds.). She is currently involved in research projects examining artistic creativity cross-culturally, arts-integrated educational designs in schools, theatre laboratory (publishing for Palgrave), A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity: Odin Teatret and Group Learning) and the role of emotions in learning. Xiangyun Du, Ph.D., is a professor at Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, and College of Education, Qatar University. Her main research interests include innovative teaching and learning in education, particularly, problem-based and project-based learning methods in fields ranging from engineering, medicine and health, and foreign language education, to diverse social, cultural and educational contexts. She has also engaged with educational institutions in over 10 countries in substantial work on pedagogy development in teaching and learning. Professor Du has over 140 relevant international publications including monographs, international journal papers, edited books and book chapters, as well as conference contributions. She has also been actively involved in a number of international academic programs, networks, and editorial works for journals. Currently she is also (co)editing book series for Palgrave and River Publishers.