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Education and the Arts:
Blurring Boundaries and Creating Spaces
Autumn 2008  Vol. 2 No. 1

This issue presents texts that, through a range of lenses, help to explore the meaning of the arts in education, and the role that the arts play in the lives of students, the schools and beyond.

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 Table of Contents 


7 Statement of Purpose

8 Review Board

9 Dedication

11 Editorial
Lynn Butler-Kisber

17 Commentary: Education and the Arts:The Windows of Imagination
Maxine Greene

23 Commentary: What Education Can Learn From the Arts
Elliot Eisner

31 Imagination’s Hope:Four Poems
Carl Leggo

35 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education:A Poetic Review
Monica Prendergast

45 Free Yourself From the Role
Dale Boyle

49 Focusing on the Earth:Using Photography and Photo Elicitation as Instruments to Engage Children as Coresearchers in a Community  Garden
Ann Grugel

69 Art as “Connective Aesthetic”: Creating Sites for Community Collaboration
Suzanne Thomas

87 Angels,Wings,and Hester Prynne:The Place of Content in Teaching Adolescent Artists
Mary Hafeli

115 The Classroom as Studio—The Studio as Classroom
Nicole Bourassa

127 Arts: Inspiration for Life
Anne-Sophie Grenier

131 Readers Theatre—Take Another Look—It’s More Than Fluency Instruction
Marlene E.McKay

145 Reinvigorating Conceptions of Teacher Identity: Creating Self-Boxes as  Arts-Based Self-Study
Ruth Leitch

163 Working the Image:Unearthing Aspects of Teachers’ Lives Through Arts-Engagement
P.Bruce Uhrmacher & Cassandra Trousas

179 Theatre and Critical Consciousness in Teacher Education
David Dillon

195 “Who We Are Matters”: Exploring Teacher Identities Through Found Poetry
Elizabeth J.Meyer

211 A Quest for a Theory and Practice of Authentic Assessment: An Arts-Based Approach
Joe Norris

235 Inhabiting Silence:A Sorry Story
Susanne Gannon

245 Collage Inquiry:Creative and Particular Applications
Donna Davis

267 Research as Experience and the Experience of Research:Mutual Shaping in the Arts and in Qualitative Inquiry
Liora Bresler

 

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