CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice

[ENCATC Performing Arts Management]

Over the past decade, the arts have begun to take a central place in the higher education conversation. The embattled liberal arts, within which the performing arts have long been eyed with suspicion, now use terminology of the performing arts to justify their continuation at the center of American higher education. They emphasize "creative entrepreneurship" and the skills of the "creative class" as the strengths provided by a liberal arts college degree.

 

These "new" valuable skills are ones that the performing arts have been teaching and practicing all along. In fact, almost any list of High-Impact Practices or skills of the creative class look like a list of learning outcomes from a theatre, music, or dance class: collaboration, empathy, risk-taking, thinking outside the box, intense and lengthy focus on a difficult project, the application of theory to practice, etc.

 

Chapters in the book are organized according to the list of High-Impact Practices, as outlined in the AACU publication High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, by George Kuh. We are primarily looking for case studies (examples of projects that address the specific HIP, of about 3000 words) in the disciplines of music and dance to contribute to the chapters on:

 

·      First-Year Experience

·      Common Intellectual Experiences

·      Writing Intensive Courses

·      Collaborative Assignments and Projects

·      Diversity/Global Learning

·      Internships

·      Capstone Courses and Projects

 

This volume is under contract with Palgrave Publishing, as part of the series The Arts in Higher Education, Nancy Kindelan, series editor. 

 

To submit a proposal, please contact Susan Kattwinkel and Michelle Hayford by October 1:

kattwinkels -at- cofc.edu

mhayford1 -at- udayton.edu

(Final case studies will be due February 1, 2017)