Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life

This book provides a new perspective on the importance of arts education in developing key skills, knowledge, and practices for young people to become critical, appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate art museum, it offers an ecological model for cultural citizenship that includes families, the media, and popular culture. It provides insights, guidance, and practical recommendations for educators, including an introduction to the Tracking Arts Learning and Engagement research, case studies, and an ecological model for cultural citizenship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Why study the arts at school? This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge, and practices that support them to become both critical, appreciative audiences, and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Tate art museum, Schools and Cultural Citizenship sets out an ecological model for cultural citizenship that goes beyond the classroom to include families, the media, and popular culture. The authors introduce new, interrelated concepts to change how we consider arts education. Chapters provide fresh insights, guidance, and practical recommendations for educators, including:

An introduction to the Tracking Arts Learning and Engagement research

Detailed case studies featuring arts-rich schools and arts-broker teachers

Analysis of the importance of immersive professional development for teachers and the benefits of partnerships with arts organizations

An ecological model for cultural citizenship

Focusing on the ways in which cultural citizenship can be taught and learnt, this is an essential read for arts educators, education staff in arts organizations, researchers, postgraduate students, arts education activists, and policy makers.

Weight: 274g
Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367553395