This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education
across the world. It is divided into six sections Contextualising Arts Education Globally and
Locally Arts Education Curriculum Policy and Schooling Arts Education Across the Life Span
Arts Education for Social Justice: Indigenous and Community Practice Health Wellbeing and
Arts Education and Arts-Based and Research-Informed Arts Education. The Handbook explores
global debates within education in the areas of dance drama music media and visual arts.
Presenting wide-ranging research from pedagogies of adaptation developed in Uganda to
ethnomusicology in Malaysia and community participatory arts to wellbeing in Canada the
Handbook highlights the universal need for arts education and in particular the importance of
indigenous (including both traditional and contemporary practice) arts education. With
contributions from internationally renowned scholars and practitioners and building on the
World Alliance for Arts Education Global Summit in 2014 the Handbook creates an essential
resource for arts education practices in and out of school alongside institutional traditional
and contemporary contexts. Students teachers and practitioners across the arts disciplines
will find the text invaluable for developing further opportunities to promote and study arts
education.
