Routledge Research in Arts Education
About the Book Series
This series is home to cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Arts Education. Considering both performance and visual arts, texts address a broad range of topics including pedagogy, curriculum, policy, teacher education, and the integration of arts in STEAM programmes. Titles offer dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Culturally Responsive Pedagogies for the Orchestra: Untold Stories of Seating Oppression and the Uprise of Social Justice
1st Edition
By Tammy S. Yi
July 30, 2025
This innovative volume explores the potential of alternative seating practices (ASP) to revolutionize orchestral music teaching in US schools and beyond by improving musicians’ social and musical experiences, including peer mentorship. Challenging traditional hierarchical seating structures and ...
Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education
1st Edition
By Kai Lehikoinen
July 22, 2025
This interdisciplinary book explores socially engaged art as a subject of study and its relevance in higher arts education institutions' third mission—giving back to society and engaging with the community—to build a sustainable higher arts education for the future. Drawing on data from two ...
Exploring Aesthetic Approaches to Arts Integration: Providing Opportunities for Productive, Holistic and Inclusive Learning in Early Childhood and Primary Education
1st Edition
By Marina Sotiropoulou-Zormpala
May 30, 2025
This book re‑examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus. Deriving from the author’s earlier work, this scholarly volume attempts ...
Embodied Learning in Educational Theatre: Perspectives on Kinesthetic Change and Social Transformation from Urban Classrooms and Prison Settings
1st Edition
By Nancy Smithner
April 28, 2025
This book explores embodied teaching practices through applied and physical theatre, drawing extensively on the author’s rich experience teaching in diverse urban environments, including schools, colleges and prison settings. It presents a groundbreaking conceptualization of embodied practice aimed...
Student Agency in Devised Theatre Education: Creating Collaborative Theatre in Virtual and In-Person Classrooms
1st Edition
By Mike Poblete
February 27, 2025
This monograph argues that implementing devised theatre as a learning praxis has a unique potential to cultivate student agency in the twenty-first century classroom. It offers actionable guidance for drama instructors by providing a new arts education methodology that emphasizes the role of ...
Developing a Curriculum Model for Civically Engaged Art Education: Engaging Youth through Artistic Research
1st Edition
By Sara Scott Shields, Rachel Fendler
November 29, 2024
This volume explores art as a means of engendering youth civic engagement and draws on research conducted with young people in the United States to develop a unique curriculum model for civically engaged art education (CEAE). Combining concepts from civics and arts education, chapters posit that ...
Children are Artists: Supporting Children’s Learning Identity as Artists
1st Edition
By Penny Hay
October 08, 2024
This book explores how we can better understand and support children’s learning identity as artists. It discusses an innovative pedagogical approach that outlines parents’ and educators’ roles in developing and supporting children as artists. Drawing on original research, the book discusses rich ...
Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing
1st Edition
Edited
By Tatiana Chemi, Elvira Brattico, Lone Overby Fjorback, László Harmat
August 26, 2024
This edited volume explores the role of arts and meditation within educational settings, and looks in particular at the preventive and developmental function of the arts in educational contexts through different theoretical perspectives. Encompassing research from an array of disciplines including...
Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art: Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hudson-Miles, Jackie Goodman
August 19, 2024
This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy. Defining the concept of ‘co-operative education’ and articulating its centrality and...
The Mentor-Disciple Relationship in the Visual Arts and Beyond: Mentoring as Human Nurturing
1st Edition
By Gaetano A. LaRoche
July 01, 2024
This book undertakes a deep examination of mentor and disciple relationships in the development of artists. It draws upon a variety of relationships and models, including an in-person mentor, a mentor or apprentice scenario, and non-physical mentors such as historical figures, in order to ...
Art Education as a Radical Act: Untold Histories of Education at MoMA
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Torres-Vega, Wendy Woon
May 20, 2024
This comprehensive volume highlights and centers untold histories of education at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937 to 2020, using the critical voices of artists, scholars, designers, and educators. Exploring these histories as transformative and paradigm-shifting in museum education, it ...
Artist-Teacher Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life: Creative Being in the Neoliberal Classroom
1st Edition
By Carol Wild
January 29, 2024
This book explores why and how the personal creative practice of arts teachers in school matters. It responds to ethnographic research that considers specific works-of-art created by teachers within the context of their classrooms. Through a classroom-based ethnographic investigation, the book ...