Special Issue on The art of education and education in the arts in times of postcapitalism
Invited Editors: Nancy Vansieleghem and Stijn Van Dorpe
Submit Abstracts to nancy.vansieleghem@luca-arts.be
- Abstract deadline: September 15th, 2021
- Maximum of 500 words and up to 6 keywords
- Manuscript due: February 1st, 2022
- Special issue estimated publication: June 2022
The role of creativity and entrepreneurship in education is emphasized in several places. However, this role is always justified insofar as the arts add value to something else; viz benefit the acquisition of language and mathematics, the development of empathy, a social attitude or to the acquisition of certain expressive skills. In this special issue we want to address how an instrumental function dominates the role of arts in education and gather papers that allow for opening new perspectives on the traditional task of education (initiation and socialisation). The issue will shed a new light on the relation between education and art, and what it means to make school for an open future. The starting point is that our late capitalist society has profoundly redrawn and pressured our relationships. Think of black life matters movements, gender issues and sexuality, or the climate youth calling on adults to take responsibility for the world. Students are growing up in a digitized society where information is shared and disseminated in no time, a world that you as a teacher can no longer control yourself and seems to fall short of the knowledge you have acquired yourself. What does teaching mean in a society where old frames of reference no longer hold and knowledge is constantly available via the smartphone? What is interesting, worthwhile, and who decides? In other words, it is no longer obvious to make school, and the question arises whether the arts can play a role in this. Therefore, the special issue gathers papers that explore the role of art to make present those aspects of making school that may interrupt the present tense. Different artistic practices can be discussed as sources of inspiration to rethink the future of making school: art practices that emphasize the political capability of education versus an understanding of arts as a practice that withdraws things from the world, art as being a sensuous and bodily affaire versus an intellectual endeavour, art as a spatial body, a particular language, or materiality. At the same time, and, as a consequence, we welcome articles that discuss the importance of education for safeguarding the arts in the future as well.
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