This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education across the world. Students, teachers and practitioners across the arts disciplines will find the text invaluable for developing further opportunities to promote and study arts education.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Story for the Commissioned Bespoke Artwork for the World Alliance for Arts Education Global Summit 2014
• Editors’ Introduction: The World Alliance for Arts Education: Forging Forward in and Through the Arts - Georgina Barton and Margaret Baguley
• Part I Contextualizing Arts Education Globally and Locally
• Sustainable Arts Education in a Prosumer World - Susan Wright and Samuel Leong
• Contextualizing Dance Education Globally and Locally - Ralph Buck and Jeff Meiners
• Drama Education in the Global Context - Robin Pascoe and Lynn FC Yau
• Practices of Music Education and Learning Across the Lifespan: An Exploration of Values and Purposes - Margaret S. Barrett and Heidi Westerlund
• Visual Arts Education and the Challenges of the Millennium Goals - Teresa Torres de Eça, Melody K. Milbrandt, Ryan Shin and Kevin Hsieh
• Part II Arts Education, Curriculum, Policy and Schooling
• Arts Education and Pedagogy in the Learning Profile in Tanzania: Current Trends - Charles Enock Mulimba Ruyembe
• Arts Education Across Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea - Kay Hartwig, Stuart Wise and Naomi Faik-Simet
• How to Practically Help Non-Specialist Teachers to Implement Various Ways to Better Integrate Art Education in Ordinary Classroom Practices: The French Program AlféArt, Between Research and Resource - Jean-Charles Chabanne, Martin Kerby, Laurence Espinassy, Alain Kerlan and Pascal Terrien
• Looking at New Trends and Policies in Latin American Art Education - Belidson Dias, Irene Tourinho, Fernando Miranda, Olga Lucia Olaya Parra, Vanessa Freitag and Tatiana Fernández
• Reflections on Contemporary Arts Education in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia - Rose Martin, Samia El-Sheikh and Bilal Makled
• Arts Education in Canada and the United States - Susan A. O'Neill and Patrick Schmidt
• School Music Education in Hong Kong After Returning to China: Policy, Curriculum, and Teaching Practice - Bo-Wah Leung
• Part III Arts Education Across the Lifespan
• Encouraging a Dynamic Relationship Between the Arts and Literacy - Georgina Barton and Robyn Ewing
• Young Children and Early Childhood Arts Education: What Can We Learn from Current Research? - Susanne Garvis and Pernilla Lagerlöf
• Creating Contemporary Asian Dance in Tertiary Dance Education: Research-Based Choreography at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts - Caren Carino
• The Arts Contribution to the Process of ‘Coming into the World’ - Janeke Wienk
• Pedagogies of Adaptation: Teachers’ Reflections on Teaching Traditional Ugandan Dances in Urban Schools in Kampala, Uganda Alfdaniels Mabingo
• Part IV Arts Education for Social Justice: Indigenous and Community Practice
• Indigenous Participation in Arts Education: A Framework for Increasing Engagement and Learning Outcomes - Robert Barton
• Applied Theatre as a Medium of Communal Communication: ‘Access to Justice’ Project in Kwale, Kenya - Kimingichi Wabende and Jeong Kyung Park
• Transmitting Intangible Cultural Heritage Through Ethnomusicology Coursework: Cases from Sabah, Malaysia - Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan
• (Mis)Representing Others: Ethical Dilemmas of Socially Engaged Art Practice - Kate Blackmore
• Remembrance of Things Past: Historical Commemoration in an Educational Setting - Margaret Baguley and Martin Kerby
• Part V Health, Wellbeing and Arts Education
• Wellbeing in Classroom Arts Collaborations - Janet McDonald, Arnold Aprill and Deborah Mills
• Growing Wellbeing Through Community Participatory Arts: The Anishinaabek Cervical Cancer Screening Study (ACCSS) - Pauline Sameshima, Dayna Slingerland, Pamela Wakewich, Kyla Morriseau and Ingeborg Zehbe
• Cello Lessons and Teargas: War, Peace and Music Education - Laura Hassler and Chris Nicholson
• Understanding Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease Through the Arts - Ardra L. Cole
• Part VI Arts-Based and Research-Informed Arts Education
• Arts-Based Research with Young Children Across Health and Education - Susanne Garvis
• A/r/tography Around the World - Rita L. Irwin, Mª Jesús Agra Pardiñas, Daniel T. Barney, Jo Chiung Hua Chen, Belidson Dias, Shaya Golparian and Abbey MacDonald
• Exploring a Creative Learning Process in Dance Education in Egypt - Krystel Khoury
• Understanding the Creativity of Bricolage in Zoukei-Asobi - Keisuke Kirita
• A Critical Review of the Postmodern Implosion of Fine Art and Popular Visual Culture in Art Classrooms - Paul Duncum
• Connecting Conversations: Finding Ways Forward for Arts Educators - Madonna Stinson
• Erratum: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education