Penketh, C.L. (2023) A History of Disability and Art Education. Routledge Advances in Disability Studies . Routledge. ISBN 9780367537913
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Value is at the heart of this project; the value we attribute to art education and the differential value attributed to disabled people in past and present times. The significance we place on subjects, people as well as curricular, can lead to their elevation or disqualification, their celebration or avoidance, their preservation or ruin. Whilst art education may have had a long association with inclusivity, its histories have left disability as a marginal or special interest, apparently removed from the subject’s evolution. We might argue that the creative practices inherent in art education can resist taken for granted assumptions about what bodies and minds can be and do, yet educational practices are determined by cultural and societal preferences that prioritise the contributions of those with so-called typical bodies and minds over those that are othered. Art education is not immune to such presumptions, since it too can reproduce and reinforce normative and ableist practices. In part, this is a consequence of educational systems that are as hostile to the subject of art education as the individuals it excludes, yet ableist assumptions are embedded in creative as well as institutional practices, exclusions that are illustrated, and reproduced, by the absence of critical perspectives on disability in its histories. Here I offer a sustained, yet partial, exploration of the relationship between disability and art education, revisiting past intersections in order to reflect on its contemporary and future relevance.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Claire Penketh |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2023 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jun 2023 09:28 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3814 |
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