John Dewey believed every person is capable of being an artist, living an artful life of social interaction that benefits and thereby beautifies the world. In Art as Experience, Dewey reminds his readers that the second Council of Nicea censored the church’s use of statutes and incense that distracted from prayer. Dewey, in an interesting turnabout, removes dogma from the church, but lauds the ...

Exposing students to socially engaged art encompasses a meaningful opportunity of connecting progressive education to contemporary arts. This grounded theoretical study explored the impact of contemporary art and street art (JR and Swoon) as a means of promoting social change through aspects of art education. The foundation of the study was structured on analyzed interviews conducted with art e...

Predicting the future is a difficult and inexact business and, generally, humans are more prone to focus on immediate problems short-term problem-solving rather than long-range planning. In fact, forecasts tricky often rendered wrong due catalytic events. The dramatic changes in teaching, learning, conducting research that have seemingly catapulted Higher Education (HE) institutions into new mo...