Youth Participatory Arts, Learning and Social Transformation

Peter Wright, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor of Education at Murdoch University. He is an award winning researcher working at the intersections of Education, the Arts, and Health with a commitment to learning in, with, through, and for the Arts. Barry Down, Ph.D. (1992), is Professor of Education at Murdoch University. His research interests include young people’s lives in the context of shifts in the global economy and escalating levels of poverty, student dis/re/engagement, teachers’ work and school change.

• ForewordFrançois MatarassoAcknowledgementsAbout the Authors1 Introduction1 Why This Book, and Why Now?2 Key Organising Ideas and Purposes3 Big hART4 What Are the Key Themes Animating This Book?5 Case Studies6 What Kind of Research Informs This Book?7 How This Book Is Organised2 Big hART: Origins, Foundations and Making a DifferenceScott Rankin1 Beginnings2 The First Projects3 Million-Dollar Kids4 Gaining Prime Ministerial Support: Martin Bryant and John Howard5 What’s in a Name: Capturing the Essence of Big hART6 The Role of Story3 Relationships, Place and Wellbeing: Do I Matter? Where Do I Fit In?1 Introduction2 Productive Practices3 Conclusion4 Agency, Self-Efficacy, and Social Transformation: ‘Step by Step Changing My Life for the Better’1 Introduction2 Agency3 Attributes and Dimensions4 Productive Conditions, Practices and Possibilities5 Conclusion5 Affective, Expressive and Meaningful Lives: Storytellers, Dancers, Performers1 Introduction2 The Arts as Signifiers and Enablers3 Affordances and Constraints4 Aesthetic Knowing5 Productive Conditions, Practices and Possibilities6 Conclusion6 Work, Security and Citizenship: Transitioning into the Workforce1 The Broader Context: Shifts in the Global Economy2 Productive Practices3 Conclusion7 Capabilities and Informal Learning Spaces: Creating a ‘Life Project’1 Introduction2 Productive Practices3 Conclusion8 Culture, Identity and ‘Becoming Somebody’: New Scripts and Possibilities1 Introduction2 Productive Practices3 Conclusion9 Culture, Arts, Justice and Activism: Lessons from the Field1 Attributes and Dimensions2 Evidence of Change3 Domains of Change4 Productive Conditions and Practices5 Concluding Thoughts: Participatory Arts, Agency and Connected BelongingReferencesIndex