Contemporary Arts Education Through the Lens of Social Justice: Insights from Research and Practice
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 May 2025 | Viewed by 138
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for recent research developments, including innovations in curriculum and pedagogy, that relate to equitable access to good-quality, relevant and meaningful arts education from birth and across the school years. This area of research falls within the aspirations expressed in the UN Sustainability Goal 4: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. For this Special Issue, “the arts” refers to the arts collectively, as well as separate disciplines such as dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts. We welcome a diverse range of research papers that bring insights about developments in good-quality arts education in and for contemporary contexts. Papers must demonstrate rigorous methodology and highlight the significance of the research in terms of advancing thinking, curriculum and pedagogical practices. The possible topic areas include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Arts education and wellbeing;
- Arts education and diversity, including neurodiversity, social, cultural and gender diversity;
- Decolonising the arts curriculum;
- First Nations perspectives and learning practices in arts education;
- Social engagement and exploration of social justice issues through the arts curriculum;
- Socially just arts education pedagogy and learning environments;
- Arts education, alternative narratives and cultural resilience;
- Access to arts education in formal education and alternative setting;
- Developing agency through opportunities for creative thinking, self-expression and collaborative engagement;
- Arts education in the digital age, including online education;
- Supportive learning environments for innovative arts education;
- Arts education and global citizenship.
Dr. Judith Dinham
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- equitable arts education
- access to arts education
- arts education and social justice
- decolonising the arts curriculum
- arts education and neurodiversity
- arts education and social change
- arts education and alternative narratives
- arts education and agency
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