They're called the "throwaways" : : children in special education using artmaking for social change / / edited by Christa Boske.

• TeilnehmendeR: Boske, Christa,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

School communities identified these children as the “throwaways”-children who often experienced bullying, abuse, foster care, juvenile detention, and special education services. In this book, children with learning differences engage in artmaking as sensemaking to deepen their understanding of what...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: artmaking as sensemaking as a portrait of resilience forcChildren with learning differences / Christa Boske
• Part 1: Youth voices
• You can’t get in my shoe / S
• The cage / N
• One of the best (because I worked so hard on this) / C
• “Acception” / T
• Princess
• The flame of anger / L
• I want people to listen / J
• Animal land / L
• Helping hands / M
• Treat women like flowers – They are gentle / J
• Magna shoe / P
• Deep blue / L
• Barricade / A
• My story / S
• Freedom / V
• The cycle #dark side / W
• I look fabulous / A
• Life is strange / M
• Part 2: Adult voices
• Born for bred / A
• The tension of duality / B
• Diversity is my degree / C
• Adversity / D
• The dky Is the limit / E
• They lived their art / F
• The children touch my heart / G
• Raw: the thread that connects us / H
• Confronting anxieties on a small scale / I
• Leading through artmaking: recognizing the power of arts-based approaches / J
• Developing my approach to working with children / K
• The “red r” did: disrupting my deficit-laden label / B
• Living the dream / M Afterword: the power of art making as sensemaking / Christa Boske.