Global Media Arts Education

"In this resilient and democratic collection of research-grounded educational practice, authors offer inspiring ideas for learners on various levels of digital abundance or deprivation, showing how media arts may be integrated in an educational ecosystem that fosters freedom of expression and develops life skills through an optimal synergy of contemporary media arts endeavors and school-scaffolded creativity."

-Andrea Kárpáti, Corvinus University Budapest, and UNESCO Chair for Multimedia in Education

"Knochel and Sahara have pulled off a remarkable feat of mapping the state of media arts in education by bringing together the voices of international experts. If you're interested in the interconnectedness of technology, media, arts and education, make a space on your bookshelf for this."

-Glen Coutts, Professor, University of Lapland, Finland, and President, International Society for Education through Art

This edited volume broadens the understanding of the media arts at a global scale bringing together practices and ideas from artists and art educators from around the world. Authors explore issues of cultural and social diversity in fields of education, media theory, and critical theories of education and pedagogy with particular attention to digital technologies' impact on visual arts learning. Researchers utilize a range of methodologies including participant-researcher ethnographies, action research, case study, and design based research. These artists and art educators share new research about the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of media arts in educational systems that are facing unprecedented change. This volume begins to map why and how experts are working within networked society and playing with digital innovations through media arts education as a critical and creative practice.

Aaron D. Knochel is Associate Professor of Art Education and an affiliated faculty at the Art & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Osamu Sahara is Associate Professor of Media Design and Art Education at Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Tokushima University, Japan.