TITLE:
Heart Is Active Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Education
AUTHORS:
Seungho Moon, Jenna Mortensen Nelson, Yeorim Hwang, Mary Danley
KEYWORDS:
Aesthetic Education, Civic Education, Art-Based Inquiry, Urban Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.8 No.10,
August
16,
2017
ABSTRACT: The ARtS (Aesthetic, Reflexive thoughts, & Sharing) Initiative is an innovative program for engaging children in reflexive thought about active citizenship in urban communities. This article explicates how children use art to imagine the alternatives in civic education. Using the heart metaphor as active citizenship, the authors illustrate how this organ connects citizens and pumps our desire for a better community through our veins, thus instigating social change. This article demonstrates the power of imagination to inspire students to conceptualize a more just society.