Arts and Cultural Education in a Challenging and Changing World: Eno Yearbook 3

This book is motivated by questions of how arts and cultural education--like all other fields--are affected by and--together with other fields--can contribute to glocal developments, challenges, and shifts. However difficult the times, arts, and culture in educational contexts have the ambition to make a positive contribution and foster creativity, empathy, and inclusion to encourage critical change, innovation, and peace. But if arts and cultural education remains traditional, unchallenged, and exclusive, those ambitions for critical change towards more inclusive practices that dare to act and make a change in the world, run the risk of remaining utopian rhetoric. It is time for a critical self-examination and willingness to change powers and privileges also within arts and cultural education.

Against this background, this book presents brave research on arts and cultural education that offers insight into the conditions, contexts, effects of, and critical changes needed within arts and cultural education. It addresses our time’s great changes, challenges, and possibilities for innovation.

Tanja Klepacki works as a senior researcher (Akademische Oberrätin) at the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, where she is also the executive manager of the Chair’s Teacher Training Academy. Her research interests include theoretical and empirical studies in the fields of aesthetic and cultural education, cultural transformation dynamics, cultural sustainability, and cultural resilience. Alongside research and teaching, she is responsible for the management of the editorial office of the international, peer-reviewed, open access ＂Journal for Research in Cultural, Aesthetic, and Arts Education＂ (IJRCAAE). Since 2022, she has been a co-opted board member of the ＂European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO)＂.

Edwin van Meerkerk is professor of cultural education at Radboud University. He researches and teaches about arts and cultural education, cultural policy, and higher education for sustainability. He is also an endowed professor at ArtEZ University of the Arts and leadership fellow in the Comenius Programme for Educational Innovation. In his research and teaching, he is driven by curiosity about how people give shape to their ideas about the value of art in practice. He does this, among other things, through his long-term research into the cooperation between art teachers and teachers in primary education within the framework of the national programme Quality Cultural Education. He is also concerned with the differences between policy and practice with regard to cultural entrepreneurship, among other things.

Tone Pernille Østern is professor in arts education with a focus on dance at the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is also visiting professor in dance education in contemporary contexts at Stockholm University of the Arts. At NTNU, she is currently the Program Leader for the Master of Education and Head of the Forum for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity. She is active as artist/researcher/teacher with a special interest in participatory arts, choreographic processes, inclusive and critical pedagogies, bodily learning, and the performativity of research, learning and teaching. She is Editor-in-Chief for the peer-reviewed journal Dance Articulated. The Arts and Culture Norway commissioned research report Artist - an available profession? A research project about artists with disabilities in Norway (Østern et al., 2023) is a recent publication.