This collection stages a conversation between art, education, and mental health around the question of what it means to be human today.
This book moves beyond the suggestion that “the arrival of the I” in the world would require strong educational or therapeutic interventions or would be a matter of free expression without boundaries. The chapters explore new possibilities for the humanizing work of art, education, and mental health in the world today.
Of interest to academics and scholars in art, education, and mental health, this book will also be suitable for students and practitioners in these fields—mental health practitioners, teachers, and teacher educators, and those working in the arts and arts education.
This book moves beyond the suggestion that “the arrival of the I” in the world would require strong educational or therapeutic interventions or would be a matter of free expression without boundaries. The chapters explore new possibilities for the humanizing work of art, education, and mental health in the world today.
Of interest to academics and scholars in art, education, and mental health, this book will also be suitable for students and practitioners in these fields—mental health practitioners, teachers, and teacher educators, and those working in the arts and arts education.
228 pages | 23 color plates, 16 halftones | 8.66 x 8.66 | © 2024
Art: Art--General Studies
Education: Philosophy of Education
Psychology: Counseling and Guidance
Table of Contents
ENTRANCE
1 A Catalogue of an Exhibition That Didn’t Take Place
Gert Biesta, Lisbet Skregelid and Tore Dag Bøe
2 How to be a Self, Today
Gert Biesta
ROOM 1
ARTWORK BY KURT JOHANNESEN
3 The Art of Running and Being (or Just Running and Being?)
Lisbet Skregelid
4 Mental Health Work: A Disastrous, Superficial, Weak Practice Out of Order
Tore Dag Bøe
5 ‘Sit Down and Listen – Stand Up and Talk’: Classroom Life as Lived Experience
Dag Nome
ROOM 2
ARTWORK BY HELEN ERIKSEN
6 In Search of New Beginnings: On Poetry and Hope
Sigurd Tenningen
7 Being Helpful: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying and Its Companions
Rolf Sundet
8 What Might Keep a Teacher Going? Reflections on Meaning and Persistence in the Life of Teachers
Aslaug Kristiansen
ROOM 3
ARTWORK BY JO RAVN ABUSLAND
9 Touched by the Sight of Hands Touching Yarn Touching Hands
Monica Klungland
10 Otherwise in Life: Thoughts on a Minimalist Psychotherapy
Bård Bertelsen
11 When I Teach
Gert Biesta
EXIT
12 CODA
The Authors
1 A Catalogue of an Exhibition That Didn’t Take Place
Gert Biesta, Lisbet Skregelid and Tore Dag Bøe
2 How to be a Self, Today
Gert Biesta
ROOM 1
ARTWORK BY KURT JOHANNESEN
3 The Art of Running and Being (or Just Running and Being?)
Lisbet Skregelid
4 Mental Health Work: A Disastrous, Superficial, Weak Practice Out of Order
Tore Dag Bøe
5 ‘Sit Down and Listen – Stand Up and Talk’: Classroom Life as Lived Experience
Dag Nome
ROOM 2
ARTWORK BY HELEN ERIKSEN
6 In Search of New Beginnings: On Poetry and Hope
Sigurd Tenningen
7 Being Helpful: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying and Its Companions
Rolf Sundet
8 What Might Keep a Teacher Going? Reflections on Meaning and Persistence in the Life of Teachers
Aslaug Kristiansen
ROOM 3
ARTWORK BY JO RAVN ABUSLAND
9 Touched by the Sight of Hands Touching Yarn Touching Hands
Monica Klungland
10 Otherwise in Life: Thoughts on a Minimalist Psychotherapy
Bård Bertelsen
11 When I Teach
Gert Biesta
EXIT
12 CODA
The Authors