Free Download Handbook of Arts Education and Special Education: Policy, Research, and Practices By Jean B. Crockett (editor), Sharon M. Malley (editor)
2018 | 382 Pages | ISBN: 1138669598 | PDF | 4 MB
The Handbook of Arts Education and Special Education brings together, for the first time in a single reference volume, policy, research, and practices in special education and arts education synthesized to inform stakeholders across a broad spectrum of education. This handbook encompasses arts education for students with disabilities, from pre-K through transition to postsecondary education and careers as well as community arts education, with particular attention to conceptual foundations; research-based practices; professional standards; students' cognitive, artistic, and social growth; career education; and future directions for research and practice in special education and arts education.

Free Download Anna Hickey-Moody, "Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms"
English | ISBN: 178348487X | 2015 | 238 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies' perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical post human pedagogy.

Free Download Joe Norris, "Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach "
English | ISBN: 1598744771 | 2010 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, exploring the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding. Performers generate data around chosen topics― from addiction and sexuality to qualitative research―by compiling scenes from their disparate voices. Audience members become involved in the investigation, and the performed scenes do not end the conversation but challenge and extend it. Through discussion and audience participation, the process examines how knowledge is defined and how data is mediated.

Free Download Arts Programming for the Anthropocene: Art in Community and Environment By Bill Gilbert; Anicca Cox; Erika Osborne
2018 | 247 Pages | ISBN: 1138385255 | PDF | 7 MB
Arts Programming for the Anthropocene argues for a role for the arts as an engaged, professional practice in contemporary culture, charting the evolution of arts over the previous half century from a primarily solitary practice involved with its own internal dialogue to one actively seeking a larger discourse. The chapters investigate the origin and evolution of five academic field programs on three continents, mapping developments in field pedagogy in the arts over the past twenty years. Drawing upon the collective experience of artists and academicians in the United States, Australia, and Greece operating in a wide range of social and environmental contexts, it makes the case for the necessity of an update to ensure the real world relevance and applicability of tertiary arts education.Based on thirty years of experimentation in arts pedagogy, including the creation of the Land Arts of the American West (LAAW) program and Art and Ecology discipline at the University of New Mexico, this book is written for arts practitioners, aspiring artists, art educators, and those interested in how the arts can contribute to strengthening cultural resiliency in the face of rapid environmental change.

Free Download Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations By Tasha Colbert, Cornelia Bent
2017 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 1138656429 | PDF | 39 MB
Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions from drama, music, dance movement and art therapists, as well as professionals from related disciplines, it vividly demonstrates how the alchemy of these collaborations produces innovative interventions and new approaches to working with clients.Compelling examples of collaborative practice cover a variety of client groups, ranging from Syrian refugee children and women with eating disorders, to homeless war veterans and sex offenders.　Together, the authors make the case for the effectiveness of cross-modal and transdisciplinary approaches when working with otherwise hard-to-reach and complex populations.This book is a guide to good practice and an invaluable resource for both experienced arts therapists and those new to the field. It will also be of benefit to healthcare and education professionals, arts practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Free Download The Martial Arts Studies Reader By Paul Bowman (editor)
2018 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 178660549X | PDF | 14 MB
The first authoritative overview of martial arts studies, written by pioneers of this dynamic and rapidly expanding new field.A decade ago, the question was 'could martial arts ever be studied academically?'Today we are witnessing the global emergence and rapid proliferation of Martial Arts Studies - an exciting and dynamic new field that studies all aspects of martial arts in culture, history, and society. In recent years there have been a proliferation of studies of martial arts and race, gender, class, nation, ethnicity, identity, culture, politics, history, economics, film, media, art, philosophy, gaming, education, embodiment, performance, technology and many other matters. Given the diversity of topics and approaches, the question for new students and researchers is one of how to orientate oneself and gain awareness of the richness and diversity of the field, make sense of different styles of academic approach, and organise one's own study, research and writing.The Martial Arts Studies Reader answers this need, by bringing together pioneers of the field and scholars at its cutting edges to offer authoritative and accessible insights into its key concerns and areas. Each chapter introduces and sets out an approach to and a route through a key issue in a specific area of martial arts studies. Taken together or in isolation, the chapters offer stimulating and exciting insights into this fascinating research area. In this way, The Martial Arts Studies Reader offers the first authoritative field-defining overview of the global and multidisciplinary phenomena of martial arts and martial arts studies.

Free Download Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis and the Therapeutic Imagination By Stephen K. Levine, Catherine Hyland Moon
2019 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1787750051 | PDF | 2 MB
Laying the philosophical foundations of expressive arts therapy, this book highlights the role and importance of poiesis, the art of 'making' as a response to the world, in the expressive arts therapies as well as our own lives. The concept of poiesis was originally developed and brought into the field by Stephen K. Levine. It is a perspective that restores the primacy of the arts for the arts therapies instead of reducing art-making and art-objects to psychological data. Bringing together different schools of thought in unexpected ways, this book shows how the principles underlying expressive arts therapy have relevance to ethics, politics and social change. It includes chapters on Taoism, improvisation in the arts, and the importance of creativity for understanding human existence. With personal narratives and poetry to help create natural points for the reader to stop and reflect, Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy is the perfect guide for those wanting to understand the role of the arts and art-making in life and in therapeutic change.

Free Download Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B63YBZWF | 2023 | 9 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 267 MB
Author: Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
Narrator: Ellyn Jameson

Free Download Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, second edition by Nick Montfort
English | May 18, 2021 | ISBN: 0262044609 | 384 pages | MOBI | 1.67 Mb
A new edition of a book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help readers learn by doing.

Free Download Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, "Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us"
English | ISBN: 0593449231 | 2023 | EPUB | 304 pages | 24 MB
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts-and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.