Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education

Jessica Hoffmann Davis, EdD, was the founding director of the Arts in Education Program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, USA, and held the university’s first chair in arts in education. Recent books include: Why Our High Schools Need the Arts (2012), Ordinary Gifted Children (2010), and Why Our Schools Need the Arts, (2008).

• Introduction; Jessica Hoffmann Davis.- Part I. Challenges.- Chapter 1. Negotiating a Path to the Arts at Harvard; Tiffanie Ting.- Chapter 2. Disciplinary Discord; Rhoda Bernard.- Chapter 3. The Artist-Teacher; G. James Daichendt.- Chapter 4. Nurturing the Intersections of Arts and Non-arts disciplines; Marit Dewhurst.- Part II. Courses.- Chapter 5. Approaching Interdisciplinarity in a School of Art and Design; Adriana Katzew and Aimée Archambault.- Chapter 6. Claiming Creative Space; Courtney Lee Weida.- Chapter 7. Reflecting on the Arts in Urban Schools; Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, Chandni Desai & Traci Scheepstra.- Part III. A Program Then and Now.- Chapter 8. Persuasion and Structure; Jessica Hoffmann Davis.- Chapter 9. Toward a Culture of Solidarity; Steve Seidel.