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Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning

The Power of Arts-Making in Finding Voice and Creating Conditions for Seeing/Listening

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Editors:
  1. Shauna Butterwick

    1. University of British Columbia, Canada

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  2. Carole Roy

    1. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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  • A democratic society requires ways to foster empathy, understanding, solidarity, and social justice; Working the Margins clearly shows that art-making allows a diversity of people to find their voice, individually or collectively, and be heard
  • Working the Margins tells inspiring stories by artists, community developers, and academics of arts-based engagement and creative expression from a diversity of community contexts, in and beyond North America
  • Working the Margins tells inspiring stories by artists, community developers, and academics about arts-based engagement and creative expression taking place in a diversity of community contexts in North America, as well as Central America, Europe and Africa

Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education (ADUL)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Telling Our Story through Visual Arts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Feminist Arts-Based Adult Education with Homeless and Street-Involved Women

      • Darlene E. Clover
      Pages 3-14

    3. “I Still have My Hands”

      • Paula Cameron
      Pages 15-25

    4. Weaving Community Together

      • Murray Gibson
      Pages 27-38

    5. A Psychotherapist Brings Art-Making to Patients in Zimbabwe

      • Brian Nichols
      Pages 39-48

  3. Creative Expression: Increasing Understanding between Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Amplifying Voices

      • Carole Roy
      Pages 51-60

    3. Through the Lens of Transformative Learning

      • Beverly A. Hoffman
      Pages 61-73

    4. Meeting on the River of Life

      • Bryan Bowers
      Pages 75-88

    5. Voice, Identity, and Community

      • Kim Villagante
      Pages 89-101

    6. The Art Peace Project

      • Gordon Mitchell
      Pages 103-114

  4. Enacting & Embodying

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Speaking Truth to Power

      • Shauna Butterwick, Marilou Carrillo
      Pages 117-131

    3. Fractured Fables

      • Ingrid Hansen, Peter Balkwill
      Pages 133-144

    4. The Park Bench Players

      • Verna Macdonald
      Pages 145-155

    5. Telling Old Stories in New Ways

      • Jan Selman, John Battye
      Pages 157-168

    6. A Mother/Daughter Distance Dance

      • Elizabeth Johnson
      Pages 169-179

    7. Conclusion

      • Randee Lipson Lawrence
      Pages 181-187

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 189-191
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About this book

This volume gathers stories about how various art and creative forms of expression are used to enable voices from the margins, that is, of underrepresented individuals and communities, to take shape and form. Voice is not enough; stories and truths must be heard, must be listened to. And so the stories gathered here also speak to how creative processes enable conditions for listening and the development of empathy for other perspectives, which is essential for democracy. The chapters, including some that describe international projects, illustrate a variety of art-making practices such as poetry, visual art, film, theatre, music, and dance, and how they can support individuals and groups at the edges of mainstream society to tell their story and speak their truths, often the first steps to valuing one’s identity and organizing for change. Some of the authors are community-based artists who share stories thus bringing these creative endeavors into the wider conversation about the power of arts-making to open up spaces for dialogue across differences. Art practices outlined in this book can expand our visions by encouraging critical thinking and broadening our worldview. At this time on the earth when we face many serious challenges, the arts can stimulate hope, openness, and individual and collective imaginations for preferred futures. Inspiration comes from people who, at the edges of their community, communicate their experience.






Editors and Affiliations

  • University of British Columbia, Canada

    Shauna Butterwick

  • St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

    Carole Roy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning

  • Book Subtitle: The Power of Arts-Making in Finding Voice and Creating Conditions for Seeing/Listening

  • Editors: Shauna Butterwick, Carole Roy

  • Series Title: International Issues in Adult Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-483-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-483-1Published: 08 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 192

  • Topics: Education, general

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