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Hope Stories of the Arts and School-Wide Change

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Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research

Part of the book series: Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research ((SABER,volume 5))

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This chapter focuses on a school–community–university partnership that explores how integrating the urban arts across the curriculum can transform a school culture. Hope is a central theme that emerged from the research data, as researchers explored how the arts offered teachers, community artists, and students alternate ways of engaging in teaching and learning. Arts-based research offered a methodological underpinning for the collection of arts-based artefacts and stories as examples of how the arts fostered pride, community, and hope.

Without hope there is no way we can even start thinking about education.—(Freire, 2007, p. 87).

Art is the highest form of hope.—(Richter, 1982).

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Low, B., Lipset, M., Carter, M.R. (2023). Hope Stories of the Arts and School-Wide Change. In: Mreiwed, H., Carter, M.R., Hashem, S., Blake-Amarante, C.H. (eds) Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research. Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8028-2_8

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