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Being human today
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- Book Synopsis
- Education, mental health and the arts all share a concern for human beings and for how they live their lives. Living one's life, and living it well, has always been a challenge - life never simply happens. But what the particular challenges are, differs from time to time, from location to location, and even from individual to individual. In both education and mental health there is a strong pressure to think of being human as a technical problem that in some way can be 'fixed' by powerful, research-based interventions. Also arts are quickly turned into an instrument for fixing problems. While such fixing may be possible, and may appear to be quite successful from one perspective, it clearly runs the risk of turning students and clients into objects - things to be acted upon, rather than human beings to encounter and act with. This book stages conversations between art, education, and mental health around the question of what it means to be human today. Moving beyond the suggestion that this requires 'strong' educational or therapeutic interventions or can be resolved by means of individual expression, the chapters explore new possibilities for 'the arrival of I'.
- About The Author
- Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy in the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. From 2018 until 2022 he was Visiting Professor (Professor II) at the University of Agder. The current book is the outcome of the work done with colleagues during this time. Gert Biesta's work focuses on the theory of education and the philosophy of educational and social research, with a particular interest in teaching, teachers, curriculum, education policy, arts education and religious education. Lisbet Skregelid is Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research interests are within the field of art education. In particular she investigates how art and aesthetic practice can be relevant in school and society, and how educational theory can be of importance for artistic practice. Her research interests are within the expanded field of art education, and she has many years of praxis experience in this context. In her Ph.D. thesis, she investigated secondary school pupils' encounters with contemporary art exhibitions over a period of three years in partnership with art museum and schools. In recent years, she has had extensive collaborations with artists in both teaching and research. Skregelid has written a number of books, book chapters and articles where she makes calls for arts-based approaches to education and what she calls pedagogy of dissensus. In her latest research, Skregelid's own art practice is the point of departure for discussing art educational issues. Tore Dag Bøe is Professor in Department of Psychosocial Health at the University of Agder, Norway. He has many years of experience in mental health services as a mental health worker. In his doctoral work he investigated processes of change in mental health based on interviews with adolescents, their families and therapists involved. His research interests include phenomenological, ethical, and dialogical approaches to mental health. In recent years, he has written a number of books, book chapters, and articles on the ethical and dialogical aspects of mental health work, and also on methodological questions related to qualitative research in mental health. In his work he is seeking to develop new forms of practice and new ways of understanding in the field of mental health, based on phenomenological, social, and ethical perspectives.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781789388848
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Intellect Books, (13 May 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 232
- Weight
- 601 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 220 x 220 x 17 mm
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