Arts-Based Teaching and Learning in the Literacy Classroom

<p>This book highlights the unique and co-generative intersections of the arts and literacy that promote critical and socially engaged teaching and learning. Based on a year-long ethnography with two literacy teachers and their students in an arts-based public high school this volume makes an argument for arts-based education as the cultivation of a critical aesthetic practice in the literacy classroom. Through rich example and analysis it shows how over time this practice alters the in-school learning space in significant ways by making it more constructivist more critical and fundamentally more relational.</p>