This book integrates the three fields critical theory, digital art making, and pedagogy, drawing from scholarship and practices of new media, social practice and community-based arts interventions, and arts education pedagogy. With a collection of essays from an international group of authors, we guide readers through steps artists and art educators use to explore digital media, using new media art making to enable voices and interrupt power structures. The three sections of formation, co-...

Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images. In this new Common Threads collection, Jorge Lucero draws on the archive of the journal Visual Arts Research to present articles focused on the place of collage in fine art and education. Guided by the twinned concepts of mereness --collage's reputation as a trifle--and easiness --the technique's accessibility to all--the authors explore how subversive, debased, and effor...

Classic trouble meets brand-new twists as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn dive into four thrilling science adventures-based on the new movie The Science Adventures of Tom & Huck!From catching thieves with gravity-powered traps to making a dangerous bet with real physics on the line... from rescuing friends with the power of animal communication to using magnetism to foil a revenge plot, Tom and Huck face challenges that test their courage, friendship, and smarts-...

Old enemies return-and only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn can stop them in a brand-new science adventure-based on the new movie The Science Adventures of Tom & Huck!Tom is heading to West Point. Huck is ready to retire. But when a playful summer game turns into a dangerous showdown, the boys find themselves face-to-face with the most dangerous villains of their past! Armed with a magnet, their wits, and a little help from their friends, Tom and Huck must rely o...

Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher in a brand-new science adventure-based on the new movie The Science Adventures of Tom & Huck!When Tom makes a high-stakes bet using Huck's prized mummy cat, he's sure he's got gravity all figured out. But science has a way of humbling even the most confident schemers. Can Tom win back a pocket watch-and his friends' trust-before it's too late?Told with humor, heart, and a clear science lesson ki...

A thief is on the loose-and only Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn can stop him in a brand-new science adventure-based on the new movie The Science Adventures of Tom & Huck!When a string of robberies rocks the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, junior detectives Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn take the case. But their pursuit leads them deep into the woods-where clever traps and hidden dangers await! Good thing Tom knows the science...

Dash is on the trail-and only Becky Thatcher believes he can save the day in a brand-new science adventure-based on the new movie The Science Adventures of Tom & Huck!When a dangerous poacher leaves illegal traps hidden near town, Becky Thatcher and her friends set out to stop him. But they're not alone-Becky's loyal dog Dash is leading the way! As the girls debate whether animals can really "talk," Dash shows just how much a dog can communicate... especia...

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write.

Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking, Eisner argues, are more helpful in dealing with the ambiguities and uncertainties of daily life than are the formally...

Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nat...

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices.Hayot does m...

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audienceprovides ...