Transforming lives : exploring eight ways of learning in arts-based service learning with Australian Aboriginal communities

Anne Power, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Dawn Bennett

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Abstract

Within the fields of community music and community arts in Australia, community service learning is gaining prominence as a key pedagogical strategy that connects community service with structured reflection and learning activities (Siebenaler 2005). Arts-based service learning is increasingly being used to bring together university students and community members to work on community-led projects of cultural significance. This arts focus combines well with the service-learning approach as it promotes what Rendon (2009) calls sentipensante (sensing/thinking) pedagogy. Sentipensante pedagogy aims to disrupt entrenched belief systems that divide knowing, thinking, and feeling. Such disruption can bring to light experiences that are threshold and transformative.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCommunity Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon
EditorsBrydie-Leigh Bartleet, Melissa Cain, Diana Tolmie, Anne Power, Mari Shiobara
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
Pages153-176
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9780824867003
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • service learning
  • community arts projects
  • community music
  • Aboriginal Australians

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