Thinking Art Making Art
Thinking Art Making Art explores the use of art in human rights and development education within a number of different settings. It explores the educational benefits of art and provides case studies of various art based methodologies from a decade of practice by 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World, that can be readily used in development education and global citizenship education contexts and programmes.
Contents:
- Four case studies
- Introduction
- Seeing comes before words: human rights, human development and education – Colm Regan
- Art and its significance – Bertrand Borg
- Learning through art – John Johnston
- Teaching history not hate
- Why murals?
- ‘feeling it on the skin’: making and exploring identity boxes
- Art is an important tool for development – Stary Mwaba
- Mapping personal human rights stories
- Graphics, cartoons and seeing numbers
- Teaching what I do and how to do it – Stary Mwaba
- Red, yellow and blue – Cassandra Gibbs
- Silence is consent
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Product Details
Written By: John Johnston, Stary Mwaba and Colm Regan
Format: Paperback
Page extent: 42 pages
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World
ISBN: 9780-0-9554263-5-3
Publication City/Country: Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
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