Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning: Towards Respectful and Mutually Beneficial Educational Practices [Hardcover]

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally. With a focus on service learning, each chapter provides concrete examples of how arts-based, community-led projects can enhance and support the quality and sustainability of First Peoples cultural content in higher education. In partnership with communities across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and the United States, contributors reflect on diverse projects and activities, offer rich and engaging first-hand accounts of student, community and staff experiences, share recommendations for arts-based service learning projects and outline future directions in the field.

Section I: Framing and Conceptualizing Arts-Based Service Learning with First Peoples.- Arts-Based Service Learning with Australian First Peoples: Concepts and Considerations by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett, Anne Power and Naomi Sunderland.- Translating Indigenous Reciprocity into University-Led Arts Practice and Assessment by Sandy O Sullivan.- Exploring University-Community Partnerships in Arts-Based Service Learning with Australian First Peoples and Arts Organizations by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Gavin Carfoot and Alan Murn.- Finding Common Ground: Combining Participatory Action Research and Critical Service Learning to Guide and Manage Projects with Aboriginal Communities by Michelle Johnston, Dawn Bennett, Bonita Mason and Chris Thomson.- Ill Paint you a Picture and Youll See my Story: Broadening the Scope of Narrative Research for Arts-Based Service Learning by Naomi Sunderland, Elizabeth Kendall, Lauraine Barlow and Catherine A. Marshall.- Section II: First-Hand Experiences of Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning.- Learning in Community: Reflections on Seventeen Years of Visiting Kuntri by Glenn Woods.- Australial³§