ERIC Number: EJ1449598
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0962-0214
EISSN: EISSN-1747-5066
Informal Arts Engagement Programs in Disadvantaged Schools: Student Aspirations and Creative Limits
International Studies in Sociology of Education, v33 n4 p512-531 2024
It is widely argued that the arts have a range of cultural, economic, and educational benefits. However, under state austerity arts curricula are devalued in favour of industry skills. To address this gap in arts education, a new type of student focussed informal arts engagement program has emerged. This article draws on a qualitative study of disadvantaged Australian secondary students' experience of an arts engagement program and explores their experiences through Bourdieusian concepts. We observe how students' homologous position allowed an immediate appreciation of the arts and note how their habitus frame the arts as 'work' and as a technical accomplishment. An illusio in the arts as career emerged from these understandings. We suggest informal arts programs act as a collective gift within a weak cycle of reciprocity, but without expanded in-school opportunities fall short in offering students new ways of understanding the place and value of the arts.
Descriptors: Art Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Student Educational Objectives, Disadvantaged Schools, Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Student Experience, High School Students, Private Financial Support, Equal Education, Creative Development, Theater Arts, Career Awareness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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