Lifelong Learning, the Arts and Community Cultural Engagement in the Contemporary University: International Perspectives

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Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service. It is written specifically for graduate students, and educators working in higher education, communities, schools, and practitioners who want to learn how to better integrate the arts in their practice to critically and creativity communicate, teach, make meaning, uncover, and involve. The book contextualises the place and role of the arts in society, adult education, higher education and knowledge creation, outlines current arts-based theories and methodologies and provides examples of visual and performing arts practices to critically and creatively see, explore, represent, learn and discover the potential of the human aesthetic dimension in higher education teaching and research. -- .

Darlene E. Clover is Professor of Leadership Studies and Adult Education at the University of Victoria Kathy Sanford is Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria -- .

This book is written for all who would like to work beyond normative structures of higher education by using creative arts-based methodologies and practices. It is for those who with to collaborate with community artists and cultural institutions and for those who seek ways to unite affective and cognitive learning by engagement with and through the arts. As the editors assert, the arts have potential for augmenting the human aesthetic dimension, rupturing categories of how the world is seen, and imagining the world as it might be. -- Rebecca Berru Davis. Reflective Teaching