Discourse and disjuncture between the arts and higher education

This accessible and compelling collection offaculty reflections examines the tensions between the arts and academics andoffers interdisciplinary alternatives for higher education.

With an eye toteacher training, these artist scholars share insights, models, and personalexperience that will engage and inspire educators in a range of post-secondarysettings.

The authors represent a variety of art forms, perspectives, andpurposes for arts inclusive learning ranging from studio work to classroomteaching to urban settings in which the subject is equity and social justice.From the struggles of an arts concentrator at an Ivy League college to thechallenge of reconciling the dual identities as artists and arts educators, theissues at hand are candid and compelling.

The examples of discourse rangingfrom the broad stage of arts advocacy to an individual course or program givetestimony to the power and promise of the arts in higher education.