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Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster

Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster

Patricia Louise Maarhuis, A. G. Rud
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781799853602|ISBN10: 1799853608|EISBN13: 9781799853619
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5360-2.ch030
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Maarhuis, Patricia Louise, and A. G. Rud. "Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster." Research Anthology on School Shootings, Peer Victimization, and Solutions for Building Safer Educational Institutions, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 624-654. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5360-2.ch030

APA

Maarhuis, P. L. & Rud, A. G. (2021). Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on School Shootings, Peer Victimization, and Solutions for Building Safer Educational Institutions (pp. 624-654). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5360-2.ch030

Chicago

Maarhuis, Patricia Louise, and A. G. Rud. "Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response: Healing the Community through Arts after Disaster." In Research Anthology on School Shootings, Peer Victimization, and Solutions for Building Safer Educational Institutions, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 624-654. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5360-2.ch030

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Abstract

Since the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 there have been at least 159 school shootings in America (Everytown, n.d.). This chapter focuses on application of Deweyan thought to school shootings and aesthetic responses. Educational and aesthetic theories are used to understand the effects of school violence and inquiry includes analysis of artful works made in response to shootings. Common themes are noted across all 3 sites in various aesthetic responses and the steps toward reconstruction of associated living. Findings suggest engagement in responsive art works may ameliorate the disruption and trauma of school shootings. Within aesthetic response, there is potential for reclamation, restoration, and re-presentation of experience through the doubled reconstruction of communal spaces/places and of relational identity after shooting incidents. Considerations include the use of aesthetic response and associated living practices by activist and educators as a potential means to understand and work against gun violence.

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