Call for Chapters: Social Justice in Education

[Adam Blatner]

sounds like something Moreno might want to write if he were alive. 

> Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically to each of the editors:
> 
> Dr. Mary Stone Hanley
> College of Education and Human Development
> George Mason University
> <mailto:mhanley1 at gmu.edu>mhanley1 at gmu.edu
> 
> 
> Dr. George Noblit
> School of Education
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> <mailto:gwn at unc.edu>gwn at unc.edu
> 
> 
> Dr. Thomas Barone
> College of Education
> Arizona State University
> <mailto:barone at asu.edu>barone at asu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> CALL FOR CHAPTERS
> 
> Chapter Proposal Due:  May 29, 2009
> 
> Full Chapters Due:  February 1, 2010
> 
> 
> A Way Out of No Way:  The Arts as Social Justice in Education
> Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, George Mason University; George Noblit, 
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Thomas Barone, Arizona 
> State University
> 
> 
> Objective of the book
> The arts continue to be marginalized in educational policy and 
> practice. However, time and again art production and aesthetics have 
> provided meaning amidst chaotic conditions in a quickly and 
> constantly changing multicultural world replete with hierarchies of 
> injustice based on a myriad of differences. The arts give the 
> powerless engaged in the flow of creation and meaning-making an 
> experience of empowerment and expression. Consciousness and 
> conceptualization are heightened through the production and 
> perception of the arts, which are much needed in the education of 
> children, youth, and adults, especially those who are endangered by 
> current educational practices. This text is an effort to center the 
> need for social justice in education and the value of the arts in 
> that endeavor through arts education, arts integration, and aesthetics.
> 
> 
> Audience
> The book is intended for researchers, theorists, teachers, teacher 
> educators, graduate students, and policy makers who are interested in 
> the ways that the arts might address issues of equity and excellence 
> in education. The book will include conceptual work and examples of 
> practice and experience.
> 
> Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
> 
> Section I
> 
> Theory and concepts about the arts as they relate to social justice 
> in P-adult education.
> Theories about the arts and:
> Social justice
> Equity
> Critical consciousness
> Critical literacy
> Agency
> Multicultural theory
> Critical race theory
> Creativity and Imagination in a democratic society
> Creativity in learning, teaching, or citizenship
> Transformative learning
> Student ownership of learning
> Freedom and democracy, and/or high stakes testing, etc
> Popular culture in the transformation of society
> The role of the artist
> Conceptualizations about equity through the practice of:
> Art Integration
> The arts in informal education
> Culturally relevant instruction
> Museum Education
> Etc.
> 
> Section II
> Empirical studies in the arts as social justice in:
> Drama
> Dance
> Music
> Visual arts
> Film
> Popular culture
> Creative writing
> Technology
> 
> Section III
> Models--educator and learner narratives that include stories of 
> experiences of research, teaching, and learning through the arts and 
> popular culture that have transformed lives, experience, culture, and 
> knowledge in P-12 formal and informal educational settings and in 
> post secondary institutions and communities. This may include 
> memoirs, counter-narratives, autoethnographies, curricula, 
> discussions of lessons, etc.
> 
> 
> The book may also include a DVD for multiple forms of representation.
> 
> Submission Procedure
> Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 
> 29, 2009, a 1-2 page chapter proposal clearly explaining your 
> proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 
> September 18, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent 
> chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 
> February 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a 
> double-blind review basis.