Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education

• Main Author: Lehikoinen, Kai
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2025
• Series: Routledge Research in Arts Education
• Subjects: Arts In Education; collaboration; community art; creativity; critical reflection; deconstruction; discourse tension; diversity; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Education; equality; ethics; higher arts education; Higher education, tertiary education; inclusion; learning; marginalisation; Medicine and Nursing; modernism; Moral and social purpose of education; participation; participatory art; Philosophy and theory of education; reflection; shared knowledge construction; social impact; Social services and welfare, criminology; social transformation; Social welfare and social services; Social work; socially engaged art; Society and Social Sciences; subject of study; Sustainability; Teaching of a specific subject; The Arts; The arts: general topics; The environment; university-society interaction

This interdisciplinary book explores socially engaged art as a subject of study and its relevance in higher arts education institutions' third mission—giving back to society and engaging with the community—to build a sustainable higher arts education for the future. Drawing on data from two lar...