This book is based on the topics, questions and results of the international conference "Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability". It aims to foster and sharpen the understanding of the potential role of arts education and arts education research for cultural sustainability. In an ever more complex and interconnected world, culture is a valuable resource for sustainable development. Based on the thesis that the change towards sustainability has to be a change that starts with cultural practices of perception and knowledge, this book makes an important contribution to the broad discourse on cultural sustainability, which has begun to emerge in recent years.
In this context, the volume first deals with Intangible Cultural Heritage and how aesthetic practices and certain forms of art are changing through cultural transformation processes. Subsequently, it focuses on issues such as arts and cultural education in times of neoliberalism, (post-)migration and post-coloniality as well as on arts and cultural education under conditions of digital transformation. These theoretical and empirical contributions are complemented by insights into field trips to institutions and exemplary places of practice, showing different representations of educational art practices, cultural heritage, and cultural sustainability. Against this background the book finally offers responses and commentaries that can form the starting point for a far reaching interactive dialogical process on the utmost importance of cultural, aesthetic and arts education as part of a global endeavor for sustainable development.

Discusses the connection between arts education and sustainability on an international basis Informs on the role of culture and tradition in relation to the cultural sustainability Shows the importance of aesthetics and arts in education to cultural transformational processes

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Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen is a Full Professor of Education with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). The Chair s research aims to contribute to an understanding of the role of cultural, aesthetic, and arts education in a transforming and diverse world. Fields of work include the development of an educational aesthetic and media theory, empirical research in postdigital culture including several research projects on digitalization in arts education, as well as UNESCO-related and postcolonial perspectives. Jörissen, amongst others, is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, as well as a member of the German Council for Arts and Cultural Education (Rat für Kulturelle Bildung).
Prof. Dr. Lisa Unterberg is professor for social work at IU University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (Germany). Until 2020, she worked as a post-doc researcher at the Chair of Education with a focus on Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and associated with the UNESCO UNITWIN network. She was the co-organizer of the international UNITWIN conference Aesthetics of Transformation , held in Nuremberg in 2018.
Dr. Tanja Klepacki is the senior researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). Amongst others, she serves as executive manager of the Chair s Academy in Nuremberg. Her fields of work include theoretical and empirical studies in the fields of cultural, aesthetic and arts education as well as in the realm of cultural sustainability and cultural transformations.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Intangible Cultural Heritage: A challenge to aesthetic and cultural education.- Part I Research.- Arts and Digital Technology: Exploring responses in times of change.- Making Creative and Entrepreneurial Selves in Education: The governing of life in contemporary times.- Storying [post]qualitative inquiries, methods and pedagogies in/for/as arts based educational research.- Critical Incidents as a Participatory Research Approach for Transformative Cultural Practices.- Transcultural Aesthetic Practices in the Classroom: Sounds, spaces, bodies.- Transformation of traditional arts forms in the evolving contexts: Cantonese opera in Hong Kong as an example.- The transformation of the popular song as a tool for arts education and sustainability.- Part II Practices.- Arts and cultural practices for social transformation towards a sustainable peace building.- Culture and sustainability in situations of conflict: Artistic practices in West Africa.- Let's chat.- Arts education anddecolonization: Challenges and opportunities for cultural sustainability in the context of migration.- The transformation of museum exhibitions in the era of digital objects.- Museum and arts education: Interchange as practice in digital spaces.- Post-internet-art.- Part III Questions and Challenges.- Aesthetics of transformation: Questions to ask, Ideas to contemplate.- The Seoul agenda: A commentary.- Aesthetics, culture and transformation: An arts education perspective.- The autonomy of arts education: Perspectives of the council of cultural education.- Whose voices, bodies, objects and artefacts are we teaching, sustaining, learning of, asking students to practice in?.- The influence of neoliberalism on arts education.- Part IV Exploring transformations: Field trips.- Cultural education between processes of tradition and transformation: A theoretical introduction to the field-trip section.- From institution to subculture and back: A field trop to Komm/K4/Kunstlerhaus Nuremberg.- Commemorative culture in the age of globalization and (post-)migration?!.- Museum education in times of flight and (post)migration.- Field trip to the ;Villa Leon' and the children's museum.