Arts-Based Teaching and Learning in the Literacy Classroom: Cultivating a Critical Aesthetic Practice

By Jessica Whitelaw

Book Overview

This book highlights the unique and co-generative intersections of the arts and literacy that promote critical and socially engaged teaching and learning. Based on a year-long ethnography with two literacy teachers and their students in an arts-based public high school, this volume makes an argument for arts-based education as the cultivation of a critical aesthetic practice in the literacy classroom. Through rich example and analysis, it shows how, over time, this practice alters the in-school learning space in significant ways by making it more constructivist, more critical, and fundamentally more relational.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138344567
• ISBN13: 9781138344563
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"