Youth practices in digital arts and new media : learning in formal and informal settings /

This edited volume brings together a collection of innovative research and community customs about youths' practices in new media that are examined in diverse formal and infomal learning environments. This book is designed to promote an understanding of and share knowledge around a growing area...

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Main Authors: Black, Joanna (Author)
Group Author: Castro, Juan Carlos (Assistant professor of art education); Lin, Ching-Chiu
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave pivot
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Summary: This edited volume brings together a collection of innovative research and community customs about youths' practices in new media that are examined in diverse formal and infomal learning environments. This book is designed to promote an understanding of and share knowledge around a growing area of youth interests in digital media and arts learning in traditional and untraditional milieux. Investigations of youths' digital arts practice are discussed, in which the authors indentify and discuss types of learning spaces. Additionally, this critical discussion is related to creativity in digital art practices and is considered in light of the recent focus on youths' participation in digital culture that affects social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices.
Carrier Form: xi, 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781137475169 (hardback) :
1137475161 (hardback)
Index Number: LB1028
CLC: G434
Call Number: G434/B627
Contents: Economic, social, and personal aspects of educating for creativity : a study of a community-based youth media arts program / Ching-Chiu Lin -- Amplifying youth cultural practices by engaging and developing professional identity through social media / Martin Lalonde and Juan Carlos Castro -- New media pedagogy in two high schools : a look at formal learning environments / Joanna Black -- Learning in place : profiles of youth media arts practices in an informal learning setting / Ching-Chiu Lin and Kit Grauer -- Conclusion / Juan Carlos Castro.