Arting and Writing to Transform Education

This book is so powerful and beautiful, providing a structure to bring art and writing lessons into the classroom in beautiful and creative ways, while also weaving culture and student’s own personal experiences. There are many parallels with nature journaling and much to learn.

Purchase from Kamehameha Publishing: Arting and Writing to Transform Education: An Integrated Approach for Culturally and Ecologically Responsive Pedagogy by by Meleanna Meyer, Miki Maeshiro, and Anna Sumida

Description from the publisher’s website:

“This book presents an integrated approach to the education of children that teaches them how to see and describe their world—both the natural world around them and their own culture and identity—through linking the media of art and language, considered as parallel creative-expressive processes of arting (representation in visual images) and writing (representation in words). The goal is transformative education based on the combined power and synergy of arting and writing processes to raise the educational experience to a higher level of exploration, personalized learning, and empowerment.

The book is inspirational in content, suggesting an approach to educating children that will be enjoyable to teach and will engage learners and help them realize their full potential. It is also visually inspirational, richly illustrated in color with examples of student work and the work of artists and teachers, including that of the authors themselves.”