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Art, Education, Work, And Leisure: Tangles In The Lifelong Learning Network, Lara M. Lackey
Art, Education, Work, And Leisure: Tangles In The Lifelong Learning Network, Lara M. Lackey
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Although the field of art education has, in recent years, acknowledged the prevalence of non-formal educational sites, our literature is divided on whether this trend poses an opportunity for cooperation and strength or a threat to the status of art as a school subject. This paper consults the literature of critical theory within the domains of art, education, and leisure studies in order to examine the relationship between formal and non-formal art education. First, it considers ways in which tradition conceptualizations of art, education, leisure, and work foster an acceptance of art as experience and knowledge to be gained outside …