Who Cannot Learn?
Wolfgang, Fraser, Gary and Tia are delighted that our article on ‘late’ learning is now published in a Special Issue of Scuola Democratica, Edited by Anna Lisa Tota and Antonietta De Feo. Other articles in this rich SI address Disability and Arts Education, Prison Theatre, Epistemology, Educational Research Training, Teaching Sociology through social aesthetics, the School as a Temporary Exhibition Space, and two book reviews, one on A. Bayley’s Posthuman Pedagogies in Practice: Arts Based Approaches for Developing Participatory Futures (Palgrave MacMillan 2018)and one on Tia’s book on Hope in the same issue, the latter by Lia Luchetti.)
We were excited to be able to present three detailed, person-centered case studies (one from each of the three research sites – a care home and two hospices), to use some of our Care for Music drawings for the first time in an academic article, and to work with amazingly helpful editors and very helpful critical peer reviewers too. The process was wonderful and we look forward to future dialogue on the topic of who can learn, what is creativity, for whom, when and where, and with what consequences.
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