Changing How We Learn
(In order of publication)
Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule
Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker
An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life.
Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
By: Fern Tiger
Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovative community engagement and policymaking in diverse cities across the western U.S.
See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love
Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops, each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create.
In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard has portrayed eleven people whose work most influenced her—what she calls a camp of angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.”
The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry
Edited by Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, and Sara Press
The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum and echoes her own determination to perceive contradiction without judgment. For the next generation of teaching artists in Corrections and elsewhere, the book serves as an inspiration on the qualities needed to survive and thrive in a multi-faceted, ever-changing environment.
More on The Book of Judith here.
Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities
Edited by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fermantle, and Aviva Rahmani
Compiled of 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, EcoArt in Action stands as a field guide for practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts.
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Cultivating Creativity
The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises and strategies that can be adapted to suit a variety of disciplines.
How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories
How Spaces Become Places feature stories of community members acting together to transform edgy, empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. Pragmatic, real life accounts offer edifying and instructive examples of the kinds of work a variety of readers can do within their own communities.
Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania
By Glenna Lang
A brilliant work of scholarship that convincingly shows how Jane Jacobs’s canonical work on urbanism and the life of great cities, her work on city and national economies, and her underlying social and ethical foundations developed in the historic, mid-sized city of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Edited by Stephen Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs’ lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs’ economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs’ insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities
By Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer
An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and teens in the process of urban design.
Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition
By Mat Schwarzman
Illustrated by Keith Knight
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grassroots social change.
Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Practical guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through written letters, articles, reports and public testimony.
Growing A Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy
By Illéne Pevec, PhD
A testament to the influential nature of educational and community gardening programs for teens.
Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries
Edited by Tom Angotti, Cheryl S. Doble, and Paula Horrigan
Urban planning and architecture educators challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships for community-engaged learning.
Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
By James Jiler
Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker’s Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism—the Green House and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.