Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster

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Author(s): Patricia Louise Maarhuis (Washington State University, USA)and A. G. Rud (Washington State University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 30
Source title: Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Leigh Nanney Hersey (University of Louisiana Monroe, USA)and Bryna Bobick (University of Memphis, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch012

Keywords: Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter focuses on application of Deweyan thought to school shootings and aesthetic responses. Educational and aesthetic theories are used to understand the effects of school violence and inquiry includes analysis of artful works made in response to shootings. Common themes are noted across all 3 sites in various aesthetic responses and the steps toward reconstruction of associated living. Findings suggest engagement in responsive art works may ameliorate the disruption and trauma of school shootings. Within aesthetic response, there is potential for reclamation, restoration, and re-presentation of experience through the doubled reconstruction of communal spaces/places and of relational identity after shooting incidents. Considerations include the use of aesthetic response and associated living practices by activist and educators as a potential means to understand and work against gun violence.

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