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

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.

Author: Jessica Whitelaw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/08/2019
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781138344563

About the Author

Jessica Whitelaw teaches courses in literacy, inquiry, teaching, and leadership at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, USA.