Arts & Humanities

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725811830Author Sabrina LaiFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036567501Author Sandra Raquel Gonçalves FernandesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 739g

This book explores the many dialogues that exist between the arts and literacy. It shows how the arts are inherently multimodal and therefore interface regularly with literate practice in learning and teaching contexts. It asks the questions: What does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224671915Author Sean JayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Sean JayPublisher Sean JayWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783036589428Author Mengqiu CaoFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910949658Author Amy FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Scene by ScenePublisher Scene by Scene

This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints--educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience. The flashpoints will ignite critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913000011Author Nicola CantanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Colourful KeysPublisher Colourful KeysWeight(grams) 263g

This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens (1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes...

This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been...

Margaret S. Barrett and Sandra L. Stauffer We live in a "congenial moment for stories" (Pinnegar & Daynes, 2007, p. 30), a time in which narrative has taken up a place in the "landscape" of inquiry in the social sciences. This...

This edited book not only makes a much-needed contribution to research in arts education but also provides a strong grounding of evidential support for Singapore arts education, in contrast to the current state of affairs in arts education in many parts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736682982Author Eric G MüllerFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Alkion PressPublisher Alkion PressWeight(grams) 585g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401517614Author Martinus NijhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009544610Author Alan BarrieImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms. The product of twenty years of interdisciplinary work by musicians, music...

This volume offers key insights into the crisis of legitimization that music as a subject of arts education seems to be in. Music as an educational subject is under intense pressure, both economically, due to the reduction of education budgets, as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725801404Author Eduardo GomesFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 780g

Recent developments in new media have led to the rise of what has become known as ‘social media’. The shift towards mass self-communication has lowered the technological thresholds for everyday users to connect and to become ‘produsers’ in media life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725825370Author Razvan PorumbFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725807215Author Srinath PereraFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 671g

This book examines the inter-relationship between music learning and teaching, and culture and society: a relationship that is crucial to comprehend in today's classrooms. The author presents case studies from diverse music learning and teaching contexts...

How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important...

This book makes a case for cultural naturalism as a basis for a philosophy of art education. It argues for a holistic approach that avoids hard boundaries between artistic disciplines in the educational context, applying cultural naturalism to challenges...

This book examines the role of the visual and performing arts in higher education and argues for the importance of socially engaged transdisciplinary practices, not just to the college curriculum but also to building an informed and engaged citizenry...

This book comprises the responses of a group of multi-disciplinary writers/ researchers/practitioners to the proposition that arts education in the twentyfirst century has become industrialised. Historical and contemporary examples of how arts education...

This Open Access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and separatist tendencies highlight the...

This book examines the concept of empathy as an essential aspect of the teacher training curriculum, and asks how it can be taught. While there has been a steady flow of teacher education reform books in recent years, there are comparatively few that...

This book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry. It uses extensive data from a long-running research project where high school students were invited to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725801565Author Xuechen DingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 717g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783725820627Author Patrícia AmaralFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 753g

This book addresses the challenges faced by arts organizations, schools, and community-based settings when designing program evaluations and measuring artistic engagement and experience. With contributions from leaders in the field, this volume is an...

Biblical Zoara is located in the Ghor as-Safi, precisely at the lowest place on earth. Its environmental and cultural history is therefore unique. During two decades, an archaeological project was conducted which discovered many significant finds of...

The premise of this book is very simple. While acknowledging that much progress has been made since the end of World War II to improve life conditions for billions of people and reduce the likelihood of war, current global challenges threaten to...

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene’s philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the...

This collection of articles by Susan W. Stinson, organized thematically and chronologically by the author, reveals the evolution of the field of arts education in general and dance education in particular, through narrative and critical reflections by...

Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures explores the recovery and fostering of creativity under educational constraint. This longitudinal global study of diverse education populations in China, Canada, and Australia offers...

Beginning in the mid-2000s, celebrity gossip blogs exploded into the media market, challenging the traditional dominance of print tabloids as the primary space of celebrity dish and reconfiguring the audience's role in celebrity culture. This book is a...

This book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education. It presents exemplars of creative programs or case studies that build capacity and lasting...