Literacy in the Arts

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: Indefinite 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