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For graduate students studying art education, one of the primary tasks is to wade deeply into the conversations and debates in the field. While these debates are in constant flux, a recurring theme in recent years has been the popularity of connecting the arts to other disciplines. This chapter explores the ways in which the training of arts educators who advocate for generative connections across disciplines may offer insight into the arts as sites of discourse and convergence in higher education. Through an examination of popular models of interdisciplinary education, an articulation of core artistic processes, and examples of cross-domain connections in US universities, the author offers suggestions for a positive discourse between the arts and non-arts subjects in higher education.
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Dewhurst, M. (2016). Nurturing the Intersections of Arts and Non-arts Disciplines: Lessons from Art Education. In: Hoffmann Davis, J. (eds) Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education. The Arts in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55243-3_5
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