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Enthusiasm and/or fear concerning globalization among post-socialist youth: The case of Hungarian university students
Authors: Fülöp Márta
Published: October 2011

Globalization is one of the most frequently discussed economic, political, social and cultural phenomenon of the twenty-first century, however there are very few studies that seek to uncover how young people, the future generation of the globalizing world, perceive these processes.
Most of the existing studies target attitudes toward the economic changes and youth in Western European societies. There has been no study to investigate the perception and attitudes of young adults in post-socialist countries; therefore the goal of the present research was to explore Hungarian
university students' views. Altogether 103 respondents of two different majors (humanities and social sciences/economics) participated in the research. A closed-ended questionnaire including a semantic differential scale and a 4-point Likert-type attitude scale consisting of 30 items regarding
the most common mentioned economic, political, cultural and environmental benefits and dangers of globalization was administered. The analysis of the data revealed that while the participants consider the influence of globalization on Hungary large, they are neither fearful nor enthusiastic
about its effects, however they considered their general impact slightly more negative than positive. Items expressing different aspects of globalization resulted in five factors: Decreasing Differences, Multiculturalism, Globalization as a Threat, Benefits of Globalization, and Cultural and
Economic Hegemony. University major proved to be a better predictor of the attitude towards globalization than gender. Students of economics evaluated globalization significantly as being more good, exciting and useful than students of humanities. They seemed to have a more definite and elaborated
picture about what is needed for success in a globalized world in terms of skills. Economics students also had higher means in Factor 4 'Benefits of Globalization' and they evaluated the specific effects of globalization more positively.
Transcultural citizenship
Authors: Berg Wolfgang
Published: October 2011

In this article the author defines 'citizenship education' in the context of multicultural societies, applying the concept of transculturality. In this paper, he suggests how cross-cultural learning can be developed in a culturally diverse classroom. As soon as 'culture' is operationalized
as a set of rules, it appears that meta-rules can be applied to cultural diversity. Rules become questionable, as do the arguments themselves. Finally, only Human Rights can provide a basis for further discussion.
Teaching history and educating for citizenship: A new approach in Quebec
Authors: Osborne Ken
Published: October 2011

This article examines the ways in which history has been combined with citizenship education in Quebec's new high school curricula in world and Quebec/Canadian history to create a new subject, history and education for citizenship, in which every unit of study is assigned a distinct
'citizenship objective'. The article examines the conception of citizenship on which Quebec's new curriculum is based, its educational goals, the specification of objectives, the approach taken to history and overall programme design.
Competing citizenship identities in the global age: The case of Hong Kong
Authors: Leung Yan-Wing , Ngai George Siu-Keung
Published: October 2011

This article explores the struggles between differing of multiple citizenship identities of Hong Kong people. Firstly, it discusses the tension caused by contesting portraits of local identity of being 'Hongkongese' by comparing the version portrayed by the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region (HKSAR) government and the version reflected in the political experiences of Hong Kong people. Then it explores the tensions caused by competing versions of national identity as reflected in the debates in civic education, followed by the exploration of the tension between the local
identity of being Hongkongese and the national identity of being Chinese in the context of grand projects on national education by the government. Then, the article investigates conflicting global and national identities, and the inadequacy of global identity portrayed by the HKSAR government.
Finally, it argues that a comprehensive global identity could make a greater contribution to China, as both Hong Kong and China are marching forward together sharing a common fate, in facing a rapidly globalizing era. Hopefully, this article will serve as an example of how conflicting multiple
identities could be addressed in the global era.
Teachers' conceptions of citizenship in New Zealand social studies education
Authors: Milligan Andrea , Taylor Mike , Wood Bronwyn E.
Published: October 2011

Although 'citizenship' has long been a feature of New Zealand social studies curricula, there has been little New Zealand research about the meanings teachers attach to the concept. On the basis of a number of focus group interviews, we examine conceptions of citizenship held by primary
and secondary social studies teachers. The discussions reveal that many teachers framed citizenship as 'belonging' – a heuristic that was sufficiently malleable and open to embrace pluralism, and different scales of citizenry, while attempting to maintain a sense of cohesiveness. While
'citizenship as belonging' may hold appeal, the absence of critical debate about contested aspects of citizenship within the teachers' discussions is problematic. We argue that the New Zealand social studies teaching community vitally and urgently requires exposure to debates about 'citizenship'
and citizenship education.
Turkish students' perceptions of citizenship duties and rights: An evaluation of citizenship education in Turkey
Authors: Duruhan Kemal , Şad Süleyman Nihat
Published: October 2011

The purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the Turkish students' perceptions of their duties and rights regarding citizenship and human rights. For that reason, 120 students, randomly selected from the eighth class (aged 13–14) of four primary schools in Malatya,
a city in eastern Turkey, were given the 'Perceived Citizenship Rights and Duties Scale' developed by the researchers. As a result, it was found that students have perceptions about citizenship duties and rights favourably high, while they prioritize the former. Moreover, perceived citizenship
rights scores of girls and students at a central school were found to be significantly higher. No significant difference was observed in terms of the father's educational background and following the news in media. The mother's educational background was found as a significant variable in
terms of citizenship rights and duties. Academic achievement in the citizenship and human rights lesson was also found as a significant variable in terms of perception of citizenship rights.
Montage as a participatory system: interactions with the moving image
Authors: Moore James
Published: October 2011

Recent developments in network culture suggest a weakening of hierarchical narratives of power and representation. Online technologies of distributed authorship appear to nurture a complex, speculative, contradictory and contingent realism. Yet there is a continuing deficit where the
moving image is concerned, its very form appearing resistant to the dynamic throughputs and change models of real-time interaction. If the task is not to suspend but encourage disbelief as a condition in the user, how can this be approached as a design problem? In the attempt to build a series
of design projects suggesting open architectures for the moving image, might a variety of (pre-digital) precursors from the worlds of theory, art, architecture and film offer the designer models for inspiration or adaptation.
Dreaming tongues
Authors: Munro Stuart
Published: October 2011

If art, technology and landscape were thought of in the same sentence and the result of this cocktail a relationship between body and landscape, then one by-product would be 'place' becoming 'placeless'. The active agent in all of this would be complexity. Not complexity in a random
sense where things come together in a dense and 'complex' way but in a coming together or pulling apart that is experienced by a collection of objects and world-views formed from the creation of artwork, architectural intervention and technological convenience. Through the following journey
from city to island I give a snapshot of the sorts of complex and diverse pieces that work, at times together and at other times apart, to represent a landscape, urban and rural, that continuously reshapes itself through a response to art, commerce, science, politics and much more. The narration
is shown in italics throughout. Parallel to this is a sequence of work, in its early stages, that pulls together some of these interests and observations where the liquid, the visceral, the actual and the virtual all mediate between two distinct locations one in England and one in Japan coming
together in a developing photographic sequence
The frame within a frame: a short-short story sequence theory in a sequence of short-shorts
Authors: Tansley Laura
Published: October 2011

The short-short has often made the most of its contemporary surroundings. Content on the Internet in the world of self-publishing, it seems to be the embodiment of a twenty-first-century trend for playfulness; that which embraces technology rather than shying away from it. But this
has often given the short-short an air of fleetingness, of transience, and therefore something not to be taken seriously. But the short-short demands and deserves scrutiny; it is a complex form which thrives on possibility, which thrives on questioning boundaries. Those that have dismissed
the short-short as it sped past them may have failed to recognize its ability to reflect fragmented twenty-first-century identities, and how it is steadily creeping out of the Internet, out of collections and anthologies, into more manifestations, manipulating the novel to its own ends. This
article explores the short-short story sequence in a sequence of short-shorts, demonstrating how fragmented, protean short-short writing reflects marginalized experiences, creating performative texts.
My persistent world
Authors: More Greg
Published: October 2011

This article presents design thinking and practice in the shared space of architecture and video games. It argues the need for designers to think about the delivery of distributable architectures that do not replicate, construct or delay the experience of architecture as anything other
than a screen event. The video game and virtual worlds offer new potentials to present space, to create architectures inhabited by globally distributed audiences. By discussing a series of design, art and educational projects, this article illustrates how these novel digital environments are
precursors of emergent design ecologies where educational, cultural and commercial spheres align through new spatial interfaces.
Synthetic opera: transcending contradictions of post-logical construction
Authors: Robbins Felix
Published: October 2011

This article speculates on the potential of multiple and synthetic approaches to architectural design. The argument is developed from current PhD research on the construction of "an architectural project". It investigates the status of instruction and construction of "project"
in the context of describing the synthetic process and the speculative product of emerging design work. The article investigates the process of "constructing" architectural design (intellectually and physically) and the notion of a necessary dissolution of this construction. This
dissolution is suggested as a necessary and contingent aspect of construction that facilitates a projection beyond the limitations of its initiating conception. The consequent argument is that this projection "beyond" offers the potential, through integration with lived experience
and contingent actualised adjustment and evaluation, to "transcend" the problematic of a post-logical absence of architectural relevance. Post-logical is used to articulate the movement beyond singular axiomatic principles, universalising value structures and self-legitimising narratives.
It is established in the article as the contemporary context of "absence" and relativity. The article proposes a projective and speculative architecture that through an intensity of synthetic designing defines the possibility of contingent value within (and despite) this context.
It considers the design potential of not a singular model of instruction that is described by a static logic of theoretical construction, but proposes a multiple and involving field of instructional strategies of intervention and speculation. It proposes working severally to transcend the
ungrounded legitimacy of the singular model of architectural discipline. Proposing an "opera" of synthesis rather than a singular work where intense and involving contingencies design ecologies move between positions and allow the construction of an architectural project to be "exposed".
The article argues for the active practice of models for i.e. designing as interventions and synthetic operations that move between positions and become genuinely "instructional". This proposal is offered as an alternative "way of working". It is presented in contrast to
the conventional model of a static representation and theoretical illustration that typically simply reinforce the contradictions of a post-logical cultural context.
Judging a book by its cover: Preschool children’s aesthetic preferences for picture books
Authors: Danko-McGhee Katherina , Slutsky Ruslan
Published: October 2011

This article discusses the results of a research investigation into the aesthetic preferences of young children, aged 2–5, with regard to their choice of picture book covers. The objective was to assess the nature of children’s aesthetic preferences by observing which picture
book covers they like as they peruse a selection of them (abstract, representational, colourful, and black and white illustrations). The results of the research indicate that 2-, 3- and 4-year-old children gravitate towards book covers that are representational and colourful and that have
images that they are familiar with. Five-year-old children preferred colourful and black and white images. However, the difference, when compared to younger children, is that they liked illustrations that are scary and mysterious. Literacy learning should be child-led with the teacher serving
as facilitator during the process. This includes allowing children to have access to a variety of books with covers that are aesthetically pleasing to them, not to adults.
REVIEWS
Authors: Lawrence Kay , Matthews John , Moura Anabela
Published: October 2011

THE SUBVERSIVE STITCH. EMBROIDERY AND THE MAKING OF THE FEMININE
, ROZSIKA PARKER (2010) New ed., London and New York: I. B. Tauris and Co Ltd, (1984, 1st ed., London: The Women’s Press Ltd), 247 pp., ISBN: 978 1 84885 283 9, Hardback, £14.99

THE CREATION OF IMAGINARY WORLDS:THE ROLE OF ART, MAGIC AND DREAMS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
, CLAIRE GOLOMB (2011) London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 184 pp., ISBN 978-1-84905-852-0, Paperback, £13.99/$22.95

GLOBALIZATION, ART & EDUCATION
, ELIZABETH MANLET DEALCRUZ, ALICE ARNOLD, ANN KUO AND MICHAED PARSONS (EDS) (2009) Reston: National Art Education Association, 333 pp., ISBN 978-1-890160-43-2, Hardback, $65.00
Look back in wonder: how the endings of short stories can be their most powerful and effective distinguishing features
Authors: Hurley Ursula
Published: October 2011

Drawing on her experiences as a writer and teacher of short fiction, the author offers an interrogation of the defining qualities of short stories, with a particular focus on how the ending of a narrative can be one of the most useful ways of teasing out generic differences between
short fiction and other prose forms. A survey of critical and writerly opinion leads into a practical demonstration of how endings work, with detailed reference to James Joyce's Dubliners. The essay concludes by suggesting ways in which Dubliners prefigures the composite novels and story cycles
that are prominent features of contemporary practice.
Orcs on Mars: historical fiction and the short story
Authors: Green George
Published: October 2011

This article looks at the history and practice of writing historical short fiction. It begins by commenting briefly on the historical context of historical fiction, in particular the short story. It then goes on to contrast this with recent trends in writing historical fiction, and
then to discuss the forces that shape, promote and restrict it. It then looks at the problems facing the writer of historical short fiction, both insofar as they share the problems common to writers generally, and the specific difficulties attendant upon them. The article concludes by looking
at some examples of short story writing in the context of the discussion.
Exploding the open book: The Atrocity Exhibition, Vermilion Sands and the ethics of the short story cycle
Authors: March-Russell Paul
Published: October 2011

In 1989, Robert Luscher distinguished the terms 'short story sequence' and 'short story cycle'. Luscher argued that the term 'cycle', associated with texts such as Joyce's Dubliners (1914), presupposes a totality. Instead, Luscher proposed the term 'sequence' to denote collections in
which the text does not arrive at a unity, but with each successive story opens and expands. The individual meanings are not subsumed within the whole but instead grow within, what Luscher calls an 'open book'.

Luscher's account is a revisionary exercise that substitutes 'sequence' for
'cycle'. He does not consider their respective differences in terms of the modernist/postmodern paradigm. Instead, Luscher's use of linear and binary thinking places his critique not only on the side of modernism but also on definitions of the short story that emphasize its impressionistic
and epiphanic qualities. The openness of the sequence is, in practice, far less liberated than Luscher claims.

While the stories assembled to form Vermilion Sands (1971) can be described as late modernist pieces, the avant-garde design of The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) effectively explodes
Luscher's 'open book' by refusing to be reconciled within any meaningful structure. In so doing, Ballard calls into question the academic tendency to define the short story.
Craft enterprise development: Surviving, responding to, and transforming a South African government poverty alleviation programme
Authors: Berman Kim
Published: October 2011

Despite the post-1994 South African state's efforts to support poverty alleviation through arts and culture programmes, government-funded craft enterprises have had a poor rate of success. Based on two case study projects within Phumani Paper, a South African papermaking poverty-alleviation
programme, this article argues that craft enterprises can provide an enabling environment for sustainability and resilience in periods of social transition and transformation. However, if the funding and design of such programmes are managed badly, these can undermine the very benefits they
are designed to achieve, with negative impacts on poor communities.

Poverty alleviation grants were initially designed as mechanisms for reparations. But the experience described here suggests that government funders neither took cognizance of the values of sustainable development, nor
supported what Appadurai describes as 'deep development' (2004). This article demonstrates how Phumani Paper played a valuable role in supporting the imagination, voice and agency of participants, thereby building human capacity and social capital towards a more just and hopeful future without
poverty.
Meeting and extending participants: exploratory case studies of community artist pedagogy
Authors: Denmead Tyler
Published: October 2011

In this article, the author revisits the pedagogy of a chef, which inspired his interest in community arts, before turning to pedagogies of three British community artists that he investigated through an exploratory case study. The article discusses ways in which these artists described
establishing relationships with participants and using materials in ways that might push them in new directions and towards the unknown. This process, described by one creative practitioner as 'meeting' and 'extending' her participants, was facilitated through creating an atmosphere of comfort
and care, role play, and using materials in ways that allow for experimentation and are not suggestive of particular arts disciplines. In his final discussion, he explores the implications of these pedagogies for current debates within the emerging field of community arts practice.
Theatre as communal work
Authors: Somers John
Published: October 2011

This article examines theatre's special function in rural communities that have weakened social coherence and cohesion. It considers theatre-making as a communal activity that crosses class and cultural boundaries, bringing people together in ways that mirror the interdependencies and
local focus of past rural living. The author considers the nature of community theatre, the changing nature of communities, the loss of shared story and the concept of theatre as communal work. Four diverse case studies of community theatre are presented.
The Graterford Prison Project: Negotiating Change
Authors: Redman Beverly
Published: October 2011

The writer reflects upon a year of teaching at the State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania, USA, where she and twenty-four prisoners collaborated on the development of an original play. In preparing the men to both perform and write their own dramatic work, based on
stories from their lives, she employed both autoethnographic writing and improvisatory theatre practices, namely Augusto Boal's Forum and Rainbow of Desire exercises and Jo Salas's Playback techniques. In the article, the author again utilizes autoethnographic practices, now in combination
with scholarship, in an effort to define prison theatre. She elucidates certain challenges encountered, specifically those that occurred when transferring the work to other parties for evaluation and performance. Considering how the prisoners' text changed, as it passed through various communities
and struggled to fit into those communities' discursive practices, the writer looks at the unfortunate results of such traffic, specifically how the traffic itself affects the original intentions of the work. However, she admits that only in bringing the work out of the prison and into other
communities can it have continued life and presence, which holds the potential to create a wider public forum on community-based work in the justice system.
Art, governance and the turn to community: Lessons from a national action research project on community art and local government in Australia
Authors: Mulligan Martin , Smith Pia
Published: October 2011

This article reports on the outcomes of a major action research sponsored by the Australia Council of the Arts and the Melbourne-based Cultural Development Network (CDN). This project aimed to explore the contribution that well-planned and well-resourced community art projects could
make to the capacity of local government authorities (LGAs) in Australia to engage more effectively with the concerns of their local communities and to carry out more effective strategic planning. The project was initiated by CDN in 2004 and gained the support of the Australia Council. It
was suspended in 2005, as the Australia Council undertook a review in order to establish a new Community Partnerships programme within the organization. The project was revived in 2006 because it was seen as having a role to play in informing the work of the new Australia Council programme,
and funding was secured for the development of projects in five different local government areas, ranging from urban Geelong to a rural shire centred on the Queensland town of Charters Towers. Mulligan and Smith tracked the development of the local projects in all five local government areas
and presented a comparative study on what had been achieved in relation to the national aims of the project to the Australia Council, CDN and the participating LGAs. This article includes a concise rendition of the findings contained in the research report presented to the Australia Council.
As well as reiterating what was learnt by comparing the outcomes of the five local projects, the article looks at what was learnt about the nature of good practice in community artwork as well as what was learnt about how to build more effective partnerships between people working within local
government organizations and art practitioners working within and for local communities. Such partnerships require a determination to work across very different ways of working and thinking. The researchers were able to document the work of several very experienced and skilled Australian community
art practitioners and it argues that the contribution such people can make to the well-being of local communities has been long undervalued. The article argues that the creation of an inclusive sense of community at the local level has now become a central task for local government in countries
such as Australia. It argues that art can play a critical role in the creation of community.
Working with Adrian Jones, dance artist
Authors: Ames Margaret
Published: October 2011

This article describes and discusses performance work devised by a learning disabled person. The generative process and the relationship between the author and the artist are examined. Central to the argument presented is the potential of this work to manifest a challenge to, and an
alternative reading of, notions of beauty in live performance, that is predicated upon the materiality of disability rather than any compensation for the disabled performer or dance author. The article foregrounds a specific, embodied and coherent practice that is revealed as a radical turn
in the representation of a doubly marginalized cultural context, that of disability and that of rural Wales. Such conceptualization and manifestation of an ‘alternative beauty’ is seen as opening a new aesthetic address that does not owe its provenance to the discourse of art in
the community or to the arts therapies, and is instead indicative of an imperative to consider ways of perceiving performance outside of current ideological perspectives.
Community development and the arts: Sustaining the democratic imagination in lean and mean times
Authors: Meade Rosie , Shaw Mae
Published: October 2011

This paper argues for a more expressive and expansive understanding of culture, citizenship and democracy. It seeks to reaffirm the importance of imagination, creativity and emotion in sustaining and enriching community development, particularly given the inexorable rise of a managerialist
and programmatic culture of practice. Community development should have an intrinsic interest in the fostering of a democratic culture within and between communities and between communities and state institutions. In practice, however, democracy often becomes treated as a ‘deliverable’,
and community participation is filtered through prescribed and institutionalized relationships. In the context of funding retrenchment and public sector cutbacks, democracy and participation can simply become codewords for neoliberal hegemony. Against this, we argue that the concept of democracy
must be reclaimed as an active social, political and cultural process through which change occurs in different contexts and spaces by means of subversion, opposition and resistance as much as by participation and consent. In this regard the arts have much to offer community development, but
the relationship should also be a reciprocal one. The arts can be drawn upon to justify particular kinds of social and cultural exclusion, particularly when creativity becomes monetized and subject to market incursions. There are also parallels between the pressures community arts projects
experience to demonstrate results and relevance, and those experienced by community development projects. Therefore, this paper considers dialectical tendencies in both community development and the arts. We argue for a more symbiotic engagement between these fields, and by using the term
‘democratic imagination’ we hope to enliven what can otherwise become a deadly culture of instrumentalism in both. By highlighting the concepts of cultural democracy and cultural resistance this paper explores the potential for a more nuanced and less institutionally fixated vision
of cultural practice. Cultural democracy acknowledges the centrality of creativity to human experience and emphasizes that citizens be actively supported to engage in the production, consumption and distribution of the arts. Cultural resistance theories recognize that cultural and political
expression can occur beyond the radar of mainstream community development and arts practice. Resistance is too easily dismissed as atomized and trivial, and we suggest that practitioners give it more committed attention in order to better understand the issues, identities and ideas that animate
communities. Finally, we consider the creative potential of ‘consumption’ which is often dismissed as a degraded form of cultural engagement. In so doing, we challenge some of the underlying assumptions regarding the apathy and passivity of communities that serve to rationalize
policy and practice interventions in the current context.
BOOK REVIEW
Authors: Maclaurin Ali
Published: October 2011

THE ‘DO-IT-YOURSELF’ ARTWORK: PARTICIPATION FROM FLUXUS TO NEW MEDIA, ANNA DEZEUZE (2010) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 312pp., ISBN: 978-07190-8144-6, Hardback, £60.
Painting human rights: Mapping street art in Athens
Authors: Tsilimpounidi Myrto , Walsh Aylwyn
Published: October 2011

Street art in Athens has boomed over the last years, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. As an art form, it is largely connected with the existing social conditions. A huge influx of immigrants/new citizens is transforming central
areas and traditional notions of Athenian identity, giving birth to a new street-level language that has twisted, innovated and filled in the gaps of a culture’s hegemonic discourse. In this article, street art appears as a visual marker of the shifting, complex discourses of power struggles,
marginality and counter-cultures that establish a new reality that must be seen and heard.
Cry
Authors: Ak'abal Humberto , Burnett Rosemary
Published: October 2011

Poems written to illustrate the indignities suffered by the indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala.
An Imagined Sarha
Authors: Greig David , Shehadeh Raja
Published: October 2011

A short play for two actors based on Raja Shehadeh’s 2007 book Palestinian Walks, which explores issues surrounding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of a threatened natural landscape.
Let them see us
Authors: Breguła Karolina
Published: October 2011

‘Let them see us’ is a photoessay of gay couples in Poland holding hands first exhibited in 2003 in Warsaw, Kraków, Gdansk, Sosnowiec and Wroclaw. It was later seen in other cities in Germany and Romania.
Memories of Violencia in the work of the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo: A subjective view
Authors: Acevedo Beatriz
Published: October 2011

The work of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has become an important reference when talking about art and its representation of violence and exclusion. Following a tradition stemming from the artistic movements of the twentieth century, Salcedo has been acknowledged as one of the most
intriguing and original artists in her exploration of public tragedy, the delicate issue of human rights and the trace of violence in those who are left behind. Salcedo’s undertaking does not address those tangible manifestations of evil; instead, her work goes beyond the surface, inviting
the spectator to a journey inside … into memories and feelings, into fears and intimate spaces. In this article, I offer a discussion regarding places, intersections and motivations in Salcedo’s oeuvre and suggest some echoes between certain philosophical foundations of her work
in relation to human rights in the case of Colombia. This article addresses the invitation for this Special Issue on Arts and Human Rights, focusing on the case of Colombia, where a systematic and ongoing crisis has damaged fundamental human rights for those affected by the civil conflict.
In addition, as part of my work in management and organizational studies, I consider how Doris Salcedo’s reflection is relevant to our understanding of labour and contemporary organizations.
Engagement in the arts and well-being and health in later adulthood: An empirical study
Authors: Lowis Mike J. , Jewell Albert , Jackson Michael I.
Published: October 2011

A participant sample of 102 retired men and women completed a self-report questionnaire to assess their active and passive involvement with each of six forms of artistic pursuits, plus measures of well-being and self-rated health (SRH). Although the study was partly exploratory, it
was hypothesized that there would be significant and positive links between artistic involvement and ratings for both well-being and physical health. Results showed that 99% of participants recorded at least some engagement with the arts at the passive level, and 78% at the active level. Literature
was the overall highest ranked art form, with instrumental music coming second. Contrary to hypotheses, there were no significant correlations between involvement in the arts and either well-being or SRH. It was speculated that, despite this, the reason for the relatively high involvement
with the arts was because participants simply based their responses on the extent to which they regarded their involvement in these pursuits as meaningful and pleasurable leisure occupations. It was suggested that all who are concerned with the mental and physical health of older people, should
encourage not only participation in the arts as such, but in active rather than just passive pursuits.
Forgetting the machine: Patients' experiences of engaging in artwork while on renal dialysis
Authors: Rowe Nick , Jones Colin H. , Seeger Lesley , Greaves Gill , Holman Cathy , Turner Helen
Published: October 2011

Patients on hospital haemodialysis spend many hours a week away from their home, undergoing a treatment that is time consuming and physically and mentally draining. Given the often unpleasant experience of dialysis, it is not surprising that art has been one of the possible interventions
employed. This study investigates an art project led by a professional artist at the renal dialysis unit at York Hospital. Twelve patients involved in the project participated in semi-structured interviews. Our findings suggest that while 'absorbed' in art making, patients are for a time able
to 'forget the dialysis machine' and the reality of their illness. The study finds that engagement in artwork is more than just a distraction from the uncomfortable experience of dialysis. Art making engages patients intellectually, creatively and socially. It gives purpose to the time on
dialysis, a sense of contributing to a joint task and promotes social interaction.
A philosophy for community-based, participatory arts practice: A narrative inquiry
Authors: Stickley Theodore
Published: October 2011

This article presents a single narrative of 'Veronica Blue' who is a professional actor and participatory arts practitioner. Veronica specializes in working with people from disadvantaged backgrounds and amongst people with mental health problems. Veronica has developed a theoretical
underpinning for her work together with a strong philosophy for practice as a facilitator in community arts settings. Narrative methodology is encouraged for future applied arts and health research, as its focus upon storytelling is philosophically consistent with participatory arts approaches.
Spirals dancing and the Spiral Integrated Learning Process: Promoting an embodied knowing
Authors: Beardall Nancy
Published: October 2011

This programme evaluation study of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) programme utilizes both quantitative and qualitative data. The findings suggest both student mentors as well as students participating in MVP activities enhance their ability to become active bystanders in the
prevention of bullying, sexual harassment and teen dating abuse. Through the Spiral Integrated Learning Process (SILP) inherent in the author's wellness/prevention work in a public high school, the reader will be introduced to the theoretical models and expressive arts activities that promote
an embodied knowing or integrated learning in addition to building community that acknowledges differences and supports understanding. Goleman's social and emotional learning theories, the Relational Cultural Theory, along with mindful exercises and recent neuroscience findings reinforce and
help to make the SILP more explicit. In addition Laban's idea of 'movement thinking,' informs this work along with the creative use of expressive arts; each builds on the other and spirals forward and backwards helping the students create an embodied knowing, a theoretical and experiential
framework for addressing bullying and its prevention.
On patient-centred care: An actor reflects on his experience as a simulated patient in medical communication skills training
Authors: Sutton Ray
Published: October 2011

The author, a contributor to a wide range of medical education programmes over many years, discusses issues arising from his work as a simulated patient, with particular emphasis on the concept of patient-centred care. While medical educators have published widely on patient-centred
medicine, the author approaches the subject from the radical perspective of a medical outsider - a proxy patient. The article considers the various ways in which simulated patients contribute to communication skills training and the promotion of good practice among both prospective and established
doctors. The author discusses how and how far specific consultation models may or may not be conducive to patient-centred medicine. Finally, the article assesses the present state of the patient-centred culture, as the author sees it, and suggests possible ways forward. The article is principally
addressed, not to communication skills specialists, of whom there are pitifully few, but to those GPs, senior House Officers, consultants and lecturers in diverse specialisms (mainly but not invariably related to medicine) who regularly contribute to communication skills courses as managers,
facilitators and assessors. It is also intended that actors in the simulated patient field will find the following paragraphs helpful in stimulating a professional debate.
REVIEWS
Authors: Rowe Nick , Woolfson Wendy , Dempster Paul G. , Kelly Iain , Coad Jane , Hacking Sue
Published: October 2011

THEATRE IN HEALTH AND CARE, EMMA BRODZINSKI (2010) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 200pp., ISBN: 978-1403997081, Hardback, RRP: £50.00

SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR STORYTELLING AS A HEALING ART - GLASGOW 2010, 'STORIES FOR HEALTH - WORDS FOR WELLBEING!'

ENSURING SUSTAINABILITY
- ARTS AND HEALTH ACADEMICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: A REPORT OF A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP HELD ON 17 MARCH 2011
Process drama and sex education: Advocating for drama-based components of adolescent health initiatives
Authors: Simons Sara M.
Published: October 2011

There is a rich history of applied theatre techniques being used in health education in many areas, including adolescent sex education. Theatrical intervention may take a number of forms and has been implemented around the world by schools, theatre companies, social service agencies
and non-governmental organizations. This article will examine the structure of theatrical sex education interventions over the past twenty years and put forth an argument for bringing process drama to the forefront as a way to change attitudes and beliefs around sexuality.
Thou Art: The multiple gaze of audio-visual, community-based participatory research
Authors: Sagan Olivia
Published: October 2011

This article describes an audio-visual, first-person narrative exploration of the interface of mental ill health and artistic practice. It extracts, for closer inspection, the question of how we maintain fidelity of the first person in such narrative work, and, as researchers, work
with, rather than disavow, our own unconscious and emotional responses to the data. The article suggests that a psychosocial approach to understanding audio-visual interview data offers a way through the maze of challenge surrounding audio-visual data and the encounter between the audio-visual
and the researcher.
The art of dying: Aesthetics and palliative care
Authors: Sánchez-Camus Roberto
Published: October 2011

The Art of Dying explores the function of arts integration into the management of death. The article focuses on a practitioner’s point of view as a Community Artist at St Christopher’s Hospice in London. Looking at how the death process itself functions as a transitory and
liminal phase in life, the article proposes that the arts are an integral component of dying. With references to creative texts that have shaped how we view and manage death The Art of Dying demonstrates the methods in which arts can be integrated into the dying process. The creative process
is shown through two case studies to assist the dying person in dealing with the complexities of the transitional phase, allowing a level of objectivity and critical thinking. The article concludes with the power of place-making through memory and its impact on legacy and a new narration of
life when faced with death.
Ten years on the edge: Phil Fox reflects on a decade of recovery from addiction through applied theatre
Authors: Reynolds James , Zontou Zoe
Published: October 2011

Applied theatre’s engagement with substance addiction and misuse remains small scale and undertheorized in the UK context. Outside Edge, led by Phil Fox, is a leading company in this field. In this interview, Phil discusses his work from its inception, tracing its development
and putting it in context to reflect on a decade of practice. He addresses the challenges of using Forum Theatre as a strategy of intervention and relapse prevention and identifies some of the company’s core intentions in working with those in recovery, to deny denial and to show that
substance misuse is not socially compartmentalized, but rather is everyone’s story.
The chrysalis and the butterfly: A phenomenological study of one person’s writing journey
Authors: Evans Kate
Published: October 2011

This article presents a phenomenological case study of one person’s journey to finding his writerly self through his involvement with a creative writing group with therapeutic outcomes. The journey is initially one of ambivalence and struggle. Engagement with creative writing
techniques, however, allows for discovery, a turning up, capturing and exploration of buried thoughts and emotions, leading to a greater self-understanding and capacity for reflection.
The reception of Nigerian video drama in a multicultural female community in Botswana
Authors: Kerr David
Published: October 2011

This loosely ethnographic article analyzes the reception of Nigerian videos in a semi-domestic set-up in Gaborone, Botswana. It centres on video-viewing in the context of clients having hair plaited or styled by the author's wife. The sessions allowed for gate-keeping at the level of
selection of videos and of informal critical commentary, although various levels of audience expertise contributed to the latter. The video reception is linked to the social conditions of the 'audience', many of whom were formal or informal, female economic migrants. This leads to a textual
analysis of the videos with respect to genre, language, gender stereotyping, class analysis, ethnicity, modernity, consumerism and social exclusion. The video sessions provided a discursive space where Batswana and non-Batswana women could discuss, with relative freedom, important issues concerning
various types of modern, urban identity.
Visual revision: Intersecting art and film in the work of Jean-Marie Teno and Raoul Peck
Authors: Riep David M. M.
Published: October 2011

In the films Afrique, je te plumerai/Africa, I will fleece you (Jean-Marie Teno, 1992), and Lumumba: la mort du prophete/Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (Raoul Peck, 1992), issues of cultural genocide and assimilation are explored in reference to the visual arts of two specific
West and Central African countries. This article examines the lasting and multi-layered effects of colonialism as presented by the directors through the specific scenes focusing on the visual arts of the Cameroon Grasslands and Congolese Basin kingdoms. The use and meaning of visual art objects
offers a complex dialogue with the colonial history of the African continent, highlighting not only their ability to readdress the ideas and methods of colonialism, but also their ability to operate as a visual index for the cultures from which they were produced. By referencing the visual
arts, both directors provide powerful statements regarding the fleecing of indigenous culture during the colonial and postcolonial periods, and bring to light the ability of the visual arts to generate new dialogs regarding history, context and meaning.
'Provoking situations': Abderrahmane Sissako's documentary fiction
Authors: Levine Alison Murray J.
Published: October 2011

Abderrahmane Sissako employs both documentary and fictional narrative strategies in his films. This simple observation opens onto a broad consideration of Sissako's aesthetic vision and its poetic and political ramifications. The article argues that the hybrid narrative form is one
element of a 'poetics of liminality' that plays out at many levels of Sissako's work. Liminal spaces and the thresholds that separate them permeate the work both formally and thematically. The result is a reflection on the limits and possibilities of cinema as an art form and on its ability
to act as a mediator of messages and to do political work in the world.
Introducing Shakespeare: The incipit in Orson Welles’s adaptations
Authors: Zambenedetti Alberto
Published: October 2011

<![CDATA[Gherardo Casale argues that the cinematic style crafted by Orson Welles for his productions of Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, 1948, Othello, 1950, and Chimes at Midnight, 1965) recreated an actualized poetic language that, through symbolic writing,
retains the foundations of Shakespeare’s art. Although made at very different stages of his career and exhibiting diverse cinematic styles, Welles’s filmic adaptations of Shakespeare‐s plays share a peculiarity with many of his other works: an engaging incipit that sets
the movie’s tone and mood in a uniquely powerful and assertive fashion, oftentimes deviating from the standard conventions of narration. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), Mr. Arkadin (1955) to The Trial (1962), Welles could have written an
encyclopaedia about the opening sequences in the cinema. This essay closely examines these brief segments of film, and argues that they can provide a great deal of information on Welles’s strategies in adapting the ‘playhouse documents’ that we know as the works of William
Shakespeare.]]>