Literacy in the Arts: Retheorising Learning and Teaching

Part I - Theorizing the arts and literacy. 1. Literacy and the arts: Interpretation and expression of symbolic form by Georgina Barton.- 2. First literacies: Art, creativity, play, constructive meaning-making by Felicity McArdle and Susan Wright.- 3. Visual arts education and the formation of literacies: An exploration of visuality by Joanna Barbousas.- 4. Interfacing visual and verbal narrative art in paper and digital media: Recontextualising literature and literacies by Len Unsworth.- 5. Reflective practice in the arts by Mary Ryan.- Part II - Teaching and learning literacy in the arts. 6. Literacy and knowledge: classroom practice in the arts by Georgina Barton and Peter Freebody.- 7. Dance literacy: An embodied phenomena by Evan Jones.- 8. Drama literacy: In definite articles by Madonna Stinson.- 9. Developing media production skills for literacy in a primary school classroom: Digital materials, embodied knowledge and material contexts by Michael Dezuanni and Annette Woods.- 10. Music literacies: Teaching diversity by Robert Davidson.- 11. Connect, transform, learn: Achieving visual literacy in the art classroom by Glenda Hobdell.- Part III - Diverse arts-literacy dialogues. 12. Improving literacy through the arts by Tanya Vaughan and Brian Caldwell.- 13. Using visualisation and imagery to enhance reading comprehension by Gary Woolley.- 14. Musicking as literacy: possibilities and pragmatisms for literacies learning by Stewart Riddle.- 15. Storytelling as an art literacy: Use of narrative structure in Aboriginal arts practice and performance by Robert Barton and Georgina Barton with Delmae and William Barton.- 16. The arts and literacy, 'amplified right': Hearing and reading J.S. Bach by Peter Freebody.- 17. Encouraging productive arts-literacy dialogues: A call to action by Georgina Barton.