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It is important to address the key social and cultural theorisations around issues such as freedom, democracy, knowledge and instrumentalism that impact the university and its relationship with and to the arts. This book maps out various ways in which the arts and creative practices are manifest in contemporary university-based adult education work, be it the classroom, in research or in the community. It is divided into three sections that reflect the normative structure or 'three pillars' of the contemporary university: teaching, research and service. The focus is on a programme that stems from the university's mission and commitment to encouraging its graduates to become more engaged citizens, willing to think critically and creatively about issues of global import, social justice and inequality. The Storefront 101 course, a free University of Calgary literature course for 'non-traditional' adult learners, aims to involve students in active dialogic processes of learning and civic and cultural engagement. Using the concept of pop-up galleries, teacher education is discussed. The book contextualises the place and role of the arts in society, adult education, higher education and knowledge creation, and outlines current arts-based theories and methodologies. It provides examples of visual and performing arts practices to critically and creatively see, explore, represent, learn and discover the potential of the human aesthetic dimension in higher education teaching and research. A more holistic and organic approach to lifelong learning is facilitated by a 'knowing-through-doing' approach, which became foregrounded as a defining feature of this project.
and ensuing community cultural engagement will suffer at the hands of capitalist imperatives, threatening interdisciplinary and holistic imaginations towards alternatives. Tara Hyland-Russell and Janet Groen, in ‘Crossing a cultural divide: transgressing the margins into public spaces to foster adult learning’, share their work through Storefront 101, a free University of Calgary literature course for ‘non-traditional’ adult learners. The aim of the course is to involve students in active dialogic processes of learning and civic and cultural engagement. Using
brought that craft into her university teaching. Yet in that initial moment of Storefront 101, her instincts told her that she must help the students find a way to inhabit the learning space comfortably and begin to participate in the active dialogic process that marks both learning and civic engagement. From her storytelling repertoire, Tara recalled a tale grounded in the communal storytelling practice of Haiti that offers a model of belonging and dialogue as listeners are invited into a shared community space. In Haiti, when people are gathered and someone wants to