Paradigms of Creative
Pedagogy: Children as Makers

Art1st’s latest publication emphasises the necessity of arts education
and its implementation through innovative and transformative curriculums.
These curriculums take into account local art and cultural practices, challenge
colonial models and address the need for a global exchange of ideas.

A collection of fourteen selected papers by national and international scholars, educators and practitioners.

 

Edited by art historian Amrita Gupta Singh, the book offers a combination of policy, pedagogy, and advocacy models that propose a mix of research, practice and actionable outcomes.

The school, museum, or site-specific spaces become locations of care, hospitality, interactivity, emotional erudition, collaboration, and empathetic thinking.

Committed to using the arts as a lens of education, the writings articulate how important political, sociological, ecological, and cultural issues can be taught through such lenses to facilitate critical thinking in children.

The edition offers innovative models for school authorities and other educators to integrate into their curricula, while emphasizing the connectedness between arts learning, academic accomplishment, and social development.

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ABOUT THE ART1ST EDUCATOR SERIES

The Art1st Educator Series is an annual publication format that emphasises the necessity of arts education and its implementation through innovative, adaptable, and transformative curricula that take into account local art and cultural practices, challenge colonial models and at the same time address the need for a global exchange of ideas and practices.

The Series commemorates the contribution of artist and pedagogue, Tushar Joag (1966-2018), who advocated for arts education and action-led research at the school level and was instrumental in shaping the art education program at Art1st Foundation as advisor and mentor.

 

THE AUTHORS

  • Dr. Penny Hay

    Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education; Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Bath Spa University; Director of Research, House of Imagination

  • Vrishali Purandare

    Artist, Educator and Researcher

  • Dr. Rakesh Batabyal

    Associate Professor, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • Charlotte Leech

    Co-founder, Loka Foundation

  • Susanne Buch Nielsen

    Associate Professor, VIA University College, Denmark

  • Shailza Rai

    Educator and Researcher

  • Timira Gupta

    Executive Director, Akshara High School

  • Nobina Gupta

    Founder-Director, Disappearing Dialogues

  • Parul Kiri Roy

    Co-Director, Council for Arts and Social Practice (CASP)

  • Girisha Sethi

    Architect and Researcher

  • Geeti Karmakar

    Artist and Researcher

  • Jigyasa Labroo

    CEO, CO-Founder, Slam out Loud

  • Siddhant Jain

    Monitoring and Evaluation Associate, Slam Out Loud

  • Tejshvi Jain

    Founder-Director, ReReeti – Revitalizing Museums

  • Neha Pradhan Arora

    Project Manager, ReReeti-Revitalizing Museums

  • Poulomi Das

    Consultant, Museum and Heritage Spaces

  • Avani Patel

    Human Centered Designer and Ethnographer

  • Sreya S. Majumdar

    User Experience Designer (formerly a Product Specialist at Tinkerlabs)

  • Amrita Gupta Singh

    EDITOR

    Amrita Gupta Singh is an art historian, researcher and writer involved in art education, archiving and arts management. In 2002, she joined the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts (MPCVA), Mumbai, and became its Program Director in 2005, facilitating critical thinking by curating a wide range of art education programs for adults and children. She currently runs V-IDEO: Ideas Worth Sharing, an online archive of short videos and podcasts on Indian Art. Over the last 19 years, she has contributed art writings for books, journals, websites and periodicals, nationally and internationally.

    From 2013, she is honorary co-director at Council for Arts and Social Practice (CASP, India) and has contributed as curatorial advisor to Art1st, Mumbai (2019-21)

  • Shambhavi Thakur

    DESIGNER

    Shambhavi is a multi-disciplinary designer currently creating books at Art1st. After studying Industrial Design at Pratt Institute she worked as a freelance designer with clients in marketing, consulting, retail and healthcare sectors. She returned to India to further her unlearning journey and understand what a pluralistic design practice could mean in South Asian contexts. She is guided by her fascination with the relationships between design, culture, story-telling and objects.

ABOUT ART1ST

Established in 2009, Art1st advocates the importance of visual art education as a core discipline, in public and private schools, museum education and community-based settings. At Art1st we are committed to providing an inclusive arts education programme, the universalisation of cultural knowledge, and providing access to cultural resources to all. We attempt to radically reimagine pedagogy, creativity, visual literacy and cultural awareness through consistent engagement with schools, publishing children’s books and producing films.