Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM906: Arts Education Theory, Practice and Potential

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Abbs P. (2003). Against the flow: Education, the arts and post modern culture. London: Routledge Falmer. Chapter 8: Art against the Zeitgeist and The Coda

Amsler, S. and Facer, K., (2017). Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future. Futures (94) pp.6-14.

Athiemoolam, L. (2018). The value of drama-in-education as a decolonising pedagogy through embodied drama strategies in a higher education classroom Journal of Education, Issue 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i72a04

Barnes, J. (2007) Cross curricular learning 3-14. London: Sage

Biesta, G. J. J. (2006). Beyond learning: Democratic education for a human future. Boulder: Paradigm.

Bresler, L. (Ed) (2007) International handbook for research in arts education. Dordrecht: Springer.  (2 volumes)

Eisner, E.W. (2004) What Can Education Learn from the Arts about the Practice of Education? International Journal of Education and the Arts  5:4  pp1-12 

Facer, K., Craft, A., Jewitt, C., Mauger, S., Sandford, R., Sharples, M. (2011).   Building Agency in the Face of Uncertainty.      Outcome of ESRC Seminar Series on Educational Futures (2009-11) –http://edfuturesresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Building-Agency-in-the-Face-of-Uncertainty-Thinking-Tool.pdf  

Fleming, M. (2012) The arts in education: An introduction to aesthetics, theory and pedagogy. London: Routledge. 

Harland, J., Lord, P & Stott, A. (2005) The arts-education interface: A mutual learning triangle? Slough: NFER.

Inayatullah, S. (2015). What works: Case studies in the practice of foresight. Taipei: Tamkang University Press.

Hatton, K. (2015). Chapter 1: Towards an Inclusive Arts Education, pp1-12. In K. Hatton (Ed) Towards and Inclusive Arts Education. London: IOE Press.

Inayatullah, S., (2008). Mapping Educational Futures. Six Foundational Concepts and the Six Pillars Approach.   

Bussey, M., Inayatullah, S. & Milojevic, I. (eds).        Alternative Educational Futures:  Pedagogies for emergent worlds. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Londesborough, M., Partridge, L., Bath, N. and Grinsted, S. (2017). Learning about Culture. London: RSA.

Robinson, K. (2015) Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education.  Viking.

Sabol, F. (2013). Seismic shifts in the educational landscape: What do they mean for arts education and arts education policy. Arts Education Policy Review, 114, 1, 33-45.