Arts-based Pedagogies in Adult Education: Theory and Practice

Three credits · Graduate

Arts-based methodologies/pedagogies provide communicative practices that allow inclusion of diversity for a vibrant pluralistic democracy. They foster critical thinking, offer means for expression, provide opportunities for citizens to listen and reflect on various perspectives, and promote community engagement. The arts provide avenues for exposing problems and outlining possibilities, release the imagination, expand vision, act as bridges between differences, and support resilience. Arts-based methodologies pedagogies are used in teaching and research (data collection and representation of findings). Three credits.