Front cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Preface: The Politics of International Art Education -- Introduction -- Part 1: Global Perspectives -- Creativity and Culture: Redefining Knowledge Through the Arts in Education for the Local in a Globalized World -- Folk Arts and Traditional Media in Environmental Education -- Leading to Creativity: Responding to Policy in Art Education -- Post-colonization and Art Education: Standards, Aesthetics and the Place of the Art Museum -- Part 2: Critical Pedagogy -- Between Circumstances and Controversies: Proposals for a Visual Arts Critical Pedagogy -- Cultural Literacy: An Arts-based Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for the Creation of Democratic Multicultural Societies -- Social Justice Through Curriculum: Investigating Issues of Diversity -- Contemporary Artworks as Sites for Identity Research -- Face (in) the Mirror -- Part 3: New Technologies -- Blended Learning in Art Education: New Ways of Improving Visual Literacy -- Developing a Learning Environment for Drama with Hypermedia -- Implications of Media Technology-based Workshops for Art Education -- Creating, Developing and Maintaining a Digital Magazine: Revista Digital Art& -- Part 4: Community and Environment -- Sementinha: School Under the Mango Tree -- Cultural Brokerage and Regional Arts: Developing an Enabler Model for Cultural and Economic Sustainability -- Art, Ecology and the Giant Sequoia Project -- The Visual Arts and Development of Marine Ecological Values: The WorldFish Center Project -- Environmental Art and Community Art Learning in Northern Places -- Part 5: Art Education for Peace -- The Iraqi War Through Our Eyes -- Art Educators' Positions on Violent Conflict in Israel -- Fostering Community Cohesion Through Visual Arts: An 'Art for Peace' Project with Young British-Muslim Girls.

Children's Pictures in the Aftermath of War. What do they Tell Us? -- Postscript: Children's Drawings -- The Ethiopian Village in Jewish Children's Drawings -- Young Adults' Constructions of Meaning in Child Art -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.