The social field(s) of arts education today
Living Vulnerability in Neo-Liberal Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2921970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Dimitriadis (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author), Emily Cole (0009-0007-1719-5384, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Adrienne Costello, Adrienne M Costello (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 361-379 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596300903237164 |
| OpenAlex | W1999425888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The arts are often seen as peripheral to the ‘real business’ of school and schooling. While this has been the case for some time now, the increasing pressures of high-stakes testing and ever-more draconian public funding schemes (particularly in the wake of 9/11) have created something of a ‘perfect storm’ for those working in the arts. Arts proponents today live and operate within a culture of scarcity, having to justify their increasingly marginalized vocations while competing for continually shrinking resources. The result is an often deep-bodied sense of vulnerability, one which saturates the social field (both micro and macro) of arts education in ways not often publicly acknowledged. In this article, I explore this notion of ‘vulnerability’ as a framework for understanding qualitative data which emerged from a three-year arts and education project I conducted in a large, northeast city in the USA beginning in 2003. In so doing, I look to open up a broader discussion about the oft-ignored intersection(s) between the material and aesthetic in arts and education – a discussion which is sober about the future of such work in times of economic scarcity and conservative retrenchment
Arts in education · Economics · Political science · Public relations · Retrenchment · Scarcity · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |