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Educating in the Arts - The Asian Experience, Twenty-Four Essays

Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, Vol. 11
Joubert, Lindy (Ed.)

2008, XXII, 358 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6386-2

About this book

Written by leaders in a wide range of creative fields and from all corners of the Asian region, this collection of essays presents arts and education programs which reflect traditional and contemporary practices. The volume brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, children and young people with shared interests in the arts and activities that cross disciplinary divisions and aims to encourage the use of the arts in developing international understanding, celebrating cultural diversity, building cultural bridges and creating cross-cultural dialogue throughout the Asian region. This book arose out of the need to promote not only arts and educational practices; but also the research and evaluations being achieved in the field. Writing about their own practical experiences, the authors explore linkages between creativity and discipline; social organisation and individual expression and how inventiveness and economic productivity are inextricably linked.

Also, don't miss out on an essay by our local leading dance educator and choreographer Joseph Gonzales (Head of Dance at the Akademi Seni Kebangsaan [National Arts Academy], Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism) and Prof. Dr. Tan Sooi Beng of University Science Malaysia.