Creative Critical Pedagogies

The COVID-19 pandemic created the largest global disruption of education processes and systems in history, forcing diverse educators within schools, universities, communities, and nonprofit organizations to shift the ways in which they deliver knowledge. Transitioning from face-to-face learning to online learning posed many challenges for both education and learning, while simultaneously creating the opportunity for teachers to generate, cultivate, and implement creative teaching strategies.

Creative Critical Pedagogies: Using Arts-Based Approaches for Online and In-Person Learning centers diverse arts-based pedagogical approaches used in online and in-person teaching as many educators transitioned back to face-to-face instruction. Incorporating the voices of diverse interdisciplinary educators, the edited volume highlights practical and applied strategies that are designed to engage learners, support the development of student interaction, cultivate a sense of community within classrooms, and sustain learner interest in and accountability to course content. Each contributing author promotes critical and socially engaged teaching and learning through the arts and creative approaches. Pedagogical approaches highlighted in the book include literary techniques, performance, visual arts, music, new media, and eclectic creative approaches.

Developed to help educators across the disciplines determine innovative and effective teaching modalities in a post-pandemic world, Critical Creative Pedagogies is an exemplary textbook for courses and programs in education.

Contents and Contributors Include:

Preface
Part I. Arts-Based Pedagogical Approaches Informed By Intersecting Modes, Mediums And Disciplines
Chapter 1. Arts-Based Pedagogical Approaches Aligned with Principles of Open Pedagogy and a Pedagogy of Kindness to Meet Social Justice Learning Outcomes - Nichole Parker and Beth Perry
Chapter 2. Using Art to Uplift Students - Vickie D. Mellos
Chapter 3. Lucky the Puppet: Using Puppetry in the Classroom to Promote Social and Emotional Learning - Elizabeth Lopez
Chapter 4. Creativity in Lockdown: Art and Design Workshops for Primary School Teacher Training Students at Oxford Brookes University, UK - Karen Hosack Janes
Chapter 5. Art as Reflexivity: The Usefulness of Arts-Based Pedagogical Approaches in the Graduate Research Classroom - Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, Danielle Morales, Gabriella Bobadilla, Cyd Dean, Chris Ek, Jazmin Hernandez, Angelina Herrera, Gabriela King-Sing, Brian Laundis, Diana Lozano, Maytal Leah Orevi, Maria Rodriguez, and Cheyenne Serano
Chapter 6. Digital Creative Methods of Music Education in International Collaborative University Teaching - Kai Koch and Heike Henning
Chapter 7. Pandemic Prisoners of War: Using Arts-Based Strategies to Help Mediate Nursing Student’s Social Isolation During a Global Pandemic - Katherine Janzen and Beth Perry
Part II. Arts-Based Pedagogical Approaches Focused on Healing Within the Classroom and Community Setting
Chapter 8. Healing from Loss and Grief in a Classroom Space: Engagement with Arts - Holly Nelson-Becker
Chapter 9. Intersectional Perspectives Incorporating Movement Based Experiential Learning: A Liberatory Framework for Dance/Movement Therapy Education - Tomoyo Kawano and Chevon Stewart
Chapter 10. Social Issues Theater: A Platform for Adolescent Social-Emotional Learning and Prosocial Response - Francine R. Mendelowitz
Chapter 11. My Friend’s Place: Creating the POPCORN Zine with Young Adults - Camilla Brannstrom
Chapter 12. Artmaking with Unhoused Women Cultivating Community, Well-Being, and Creativity through Virtual Gatherings - Karen Silton
Chapter 13. Therapeutic Photography: Exploring the Self Through Online Photo Sharing – Loss and Change During Covid 19 - Neil Gibson
Part III. Arts-Based Pedagogical Approaches in Social Work Education
Chapter 14. “Me and My Covid Mask” Photo Self-Portraits: A Creative and Engaging Tool for Students' Self-Expression and Ethical Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Eleni Papouli
Chapter 15. Sacrifice Zones and Pod Mapping: Leveraging Creative Methods to Enhance the Student Experience in Justice-Oriented Courses - Angela Lavery and Meg Panichelli
Chapter 16. Critical Performance Pedagogy: A Creative Strategy for Social Work Education in a Global Pandemic - Jean Catherine Carruthers
Chapter 17. Teaching Photovoice in a COVID-19 Reality: Unlocking Social Work Student Creativity in Qualitative Research - Jennie Ann Cole and Mi Hwa Lee
Chapter 18. The Classic Management Murder Podcast Series: Decentralised Teaching and Self-Directed Learning with Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education - Maik Arnold
Chapter 19. Social Work Students’ Framings of the Use of Fiction Literature: Experiences and Implications from a Finnish Art-Based Pedagogical Project - Eveliina Heino and Laura Tarkiainen
Chapter 20. Collaborative Digital Storytelling: An Arts-Based, High-Impact Educational Tool to Promote Social Justice - Elizabeth Paula Cramer and Hilary Stim
Chapter 21. Creative Social Work Pedagogy: Arts-Based Approaches in Innovative Graduate Social Work Field Instruction - Justin Francis Leon V. Nicolas and Carmy Erika C. Bumanlag
Chapter 22. Where Do You Belong?: Creating Mental Maps of Place During Covid-19 Lockdown in Melbourne, Australia - Patrick O’Keeffe
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors