Choice and the Classed Construction of Possible Futures in Specialized Arts Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 122
  In Roundtable Session: Crossing Borders: Rethinking Culture, Context, and Choice in Curriculum Studies

Abstract

In this paper, we illustrate how discourses about the arts and the importance of arts education are mobilized in distinct ways in the context of contrasting specialized arts programs. Focusing on the ways in which teachers and students describe choice, opportunity, and visions of the future within these two schools, this paper illustrates how the meaning of the arts in each environment is shaped in correspondence with the socioeconomic class distinctions that characterize each school community.

Authors

• Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez, OISE/University of Toronto

• Elena VanderDussen, University of Toronto

• Kate Cairns, OISE/University of Toronto