IJCAIP Subscriber News, April 2014

 

IJCAIP  Spring/Summer 2014 Publishers' Supplementary Issue 12 Advance Announcement

Upcoming issue Summer 2014 Is.  #12 of IJCAIP Journal, "Creating Spaces for Change" will feature articles on The Healing Arts in Action * The Art of  Mindfulness for Practitioner Wellness * Story for Change * Book reviews and more...this supplementary issue will  be published with full text articles for access by IJCAIP subscribers,  June 2014 at http://www.ijcaip.com

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Arts and Medicine: Meeting the Challenge of Change

Living Stories of Hope and Change,  How can the creative arts contribute to practitioner wellness?

Excerpts from Keynote,  March 2014, Alberta Psychiatric Association Conference here

More follow up and news about this presentation at Alberta Doctors' AMA website

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Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

New Book! Creative Arts in Humane Medicine, a project of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, published by Brush Education, dist. University of Toronto Press

Information, Contributors, Table of Contents, Reviews,  how to purchase

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IJCAIP Subscriber News and Congratulations!

Dr. Vincent Hanlon, Physician and Family Support Program, PFSP, Alberta,  facilitated workshops Everyday Mindfulness Practice and Evidence and Ready or Not Here Comes Retirement, Alberta Psychiatric Association Conference, Banff, March 2014

New Book! Catherine Etmanski, Budd L. Hall, Teresa Dawson,  Learning and Teaching Community Based Research Linking Pedagogy to Practice, University of Toronto Press.

Amy Clements-Cortes, Assistant Professor, limited term appointment, Research, Music and Health Research, University of Toronto

Cheryl L. McLean, Pt. time faculty appointment, summer 2014, M.Ed. Curriculum Studies Program, Research in Creativity, Acadia University, Nova Scotia.  Keynote speaker summer institute 2014.

 

 

 

 

New IJCAIP Book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

August 15, 2012

Leading Publishers Converge Creating Innovative Arts in Medicine Book

A groundbreaking new book in the burgeoning international field of arts and health has garnered support from two respected leaders in the Canadian publishing industry. The book, currently in process, is titled “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” and will be released in 2013. This is the third academic text book to be edited by The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP Publisher and Executive Editor, Cheryl L. McLean.

“Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will be published by Brush Education Limited of Calgary, Alberta, operated by partners Glenn Rollans and Fraser Seely.

Rollans has been in publishing for more than 30 years. A leader in the publishing industry, Glenn has been the co-principal of Duval House Publishing/Les Éditions Duval (later acquired by Nelson Education), the director of the University of Alberta Press and the editor-in-chief of Lone Pine Publishing. From 1996-2000 Glenn was the co-director of the Business of Publishing program at the University of Chicago.

Seely started his publishing career 30 years ago at Oxford University Press. Fraser has been a leader throughout his career as a vice-president at the Heritage Group, the chief operating officer at Broadview Press, and the former owner and publisher of Fifth House Publishers.

Publishers expect the book, which will be available in both hard copy and ebook formats, will be a valuable study resource in medical education.

After the successful release of two books in the CAIP Research Series featuring the creative arts and research, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice", and "Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" published by Detselig Temeron Press, Editor, McLean sees the new book serving a critical need bringing arts approaches to medical education.

“The arts are alive and thriving in medical education today with the world’s leading medical schools offering progressive programming at the intersections between the arts and health. “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” will serve a critical need for resources and feature methods that value humanism and qualities of human caring such communication, mutual respect, empathic practices and emotional and patient centered connections between physicians and other healthcare providers and their patients while fostering arts influenced approaches that can open the way for humane medicine in education and practice.”

More info can be found at the book blog, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

Info: CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

http://www.ijcaip.com

IJCAIP Advisory Board Member, Johnny Saldana receives 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association

IJCAIP Press Release, April 17, 2012

"Ethnotheatre Research from Page to Stage" by Johnny Saldana Receives AERA Award

IJCAIP, Advisory Board member Johnny Saldana has been awarded the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (AERA QR SIG). award for his book "Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage" (Left Coast Press, 2011).

Johnny Saldana is recognized as a leader in North America in qualitative approaches related to ethnotheatre or "ethnodrama". He is a professor of theatre at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film and author of "Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change Through Time" (AltaMira press, 2003); "Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre" (Alta Mira Press, 2005); "The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers" (Sage Publications, 2009) and "Fundamentals of Qualitative Research" (Oxford University Press, 2011).

I was pleased to receive a copy of this book a few months back and I have found it invaluable as a resource and as a teaching text that carefully explains ethnotheatre methodology with supportive examples and accompanying photographs. This book will represent a model for others who might wish to study methods for converting research data into transformative drama for social change.

I have included below a report about the book written by Kakali Bhattacharya, Chair of the AERA QR SIG Outstanding Book Award Committee:

“. . . the committee identified Johnny Saldana’s text Ethnotheatre: Research from page to stage as the winner of this award for several reasons. While we are at the political intersection of discourses suggesting what is and is not scientific inquiry, how qualitative research measures up to such reductive standards of scientific inquiry, it is far too easy to stay locked in a binary relationship of “us versus them” where qualitative researchers are continuously trapped in trying to legitimize their work.

Saldana opens up possibilities for qualitative inquiry, with guidelines and paths should the researcher resonate with them, to create legitimate spaces of discourse within and outside of qualitative inquiry instead of operating from a place of oppression and victimhood under the current accountability and audit culture. Saldana’s work invites researchers brand new to ethnodrama and experts returning to frame and reframe performance first and foremost as an art. His steadfast commitment to plays as an art form encourages his audience to engage data as that which can be transformed into embodied experience. His exercises and suggested readings leave a pragmatic trail for his readers to follow as they explore possible connections between the production of a play and voices in data. His frank discussions about the challenges of moving from intellectualized dialogue to character involvement demand that researchers reflect deeply on their commitments to epistemological beliefs and where they locate knowledge. For Saldana, knowledge construction is the transformation of research findings into a well-written script.

Often when researchers offer suggestions, guidelines and pathways to a methodology, such moves are seen to be prescriptive, perhaps reductive and restrictive to the vast possibilities within qualitative research. However, Saldana’s work should not be read as such. It takes an acutely insightful researcher, theorist, and a practitioner to be able to highlight one’s own process of developing a methodology of data collection, data analysis, and representation while maintaining a layered multiplicity to one’s work. Saldana is a gifted performer and thus lends an expert voice to ethnodrama. Even through such lending of an expert voice, Saldana opens up multiple possibilities of ethnodrama in qualitative inquiry. This text will continue to serve both students and practitioners of qualitative research in addition to being a text that many will return to for guidance, insights, and framing and reframing of their work. For these r
easons described, the Outstanding Book Award committee is proud to announce Johnny Saldana’s text Ethnotheatre: Research from page to stage as the winner this year.”

At the End of Life, Non Fiction Essays About the Death Experience

Review C.L. McLean, Publisher International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP

“At the End of Life, True Stories About How we Die,” published by Creative Nonfiction Books, Pittsburgh, edited by Lee Gutkind, Founding Editor of “Creative Nonfiction” and Writer in Residence at The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, is a provocative collection of 21 true stories written by health professionals and laypeople, stories that bear witness to personal experiences of death.

These essays are no easy read. They do not turn away from the facts about death but rather, through the candor of the tellings and the art of storytelling urge us to stay, read on and learn.

The literary non-fiction essays presented in this book provide facts in the context of compelling stories that take the reader on living personal journeys through the death experience. Presented from multiple perspectives the book explores topics such as contending with illness and loss, bearing witness, professional and patient communication, dealing with death within the healthcare system, seeking alternative places to die, finding acceptance and letting go.

At its heart, “At the End of Life, True Stories About How We Die” is a book about love, courage and human survival. We read and we see ourselves grappling with the gravity of what is required of us and we learn how to fight for the dignity of our fathers and mothers. We suffer with the writers through their experiences and know what it is to live through death and carry on.

The book “At the End of Life, True Stories About How We Die,” represents a literary and sacred act of human service as editor and writers share the gift of knowledge, the authenticity of truth and the transformative potential of human experience to help others learn about how we die.

New Book Features Experiences of Storyteller Working in Hospice

NOW I KNOW THE WORLD IS ROUND: STORIES AT THE END OF LIFE

Mary Louise Chown, based in Winnipeg , Manitoba, has recently published a book about the years she spent working as a visiting artist in Winnipeg Hospitals and Palliative care centers. Her book was on the McNally Robinson best- seller list in November 2011. Mary Louise Chown chronicles some of her memorable experiences with those nearing the end of their life, as she told stories and played music to celebrate the preciousness of human existence and the inevitability of death. This is a wonderful book about the place of storytelling in healthcare.

“Mary Louise Chown is our guide, showing us the power and the gift of being present in the moment, listening for what may be needed and offering what we can with humility and joy. The stories, both personal tales and folktales, are a wonderful resource, as is her practical advice, but even more valuable is her invitation to accompany her as she accompanies the dying and their families – sharing stories, playing music, listening, simply being.” Gail Rosen

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Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change book can now be pre-ordered at this website

“Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change”,
Editor, Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, published by Detselig Enterprises, Calgary, is the second text in the CAIP research series and takes a global perspective featuring projects that have used the creative arts applied in research for community and cultural change. In this action oriented collection qualitative research and community based and participatory methods play a major role as well as other experiential approaches.

The articles in this second volume have been divided into four thematically related sections:

Part 1 Community Action and Education through Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice; Part 2 Images for Witness, Community Action in Disability and Health; Part 3 Arts Exploring Immigrant Experience and Cultural Identities; Part 4 Human Stories “from the outside in” for Community and Cultural Change.

Many of the researchers, artists, educators, participants and community members you will read about in these accounts strive for change by joining together in interdisciplinary projects to address the most fundamental of human needs, the need for healthy and safe communities with water to drink and air to breathe, the need for human expression and connection, the desire to be accepted and acknowledged as a human being of value and to voice their personal stories for witness whether it is from a stage, a study circle, a kitchen table or to be experienced at exhibits in public spaces in the photographs of a community of women, street workers, sharing images depicting stories of survival on the streets of the inner city.

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change" is fundamentally a book about the arts in action and practice for hope and citizen empowerment, about people and communities making a difference through arts processes and democratic change. It may be true that we are shaped by culture and yet as is clearly evidenced by the articles in this book culture itself can be artfully shaped and re/formed within communities by the hands of the people who daily transform it.

Table of Contents

Featured Contributors

Editors

Read Excerpts from the book Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change

See Advance Book Previews and Contributor Quotes of Note

Featured contributors

Saldana Brings Ethnotheatre Research from Page to Stage

We are pleased to announce the recent release of the book "Ethnotheatre Research from Page to Stage" by IJCAIP Advisory Board Member and Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University, Johnny Saldana. Saldana is well recognized as an international leader in the field. The book has been published by Left Coast Press and "covers the preparation of a dramatic presentation from the research and writing stages to the elements of stage production. Saldaña nurtures playwrights through adaptation and stage exercises, and delves into the complex ethical questions of turning the personal into theatre. Throughout, he emphasizes the vital importance of creating good theatre as well as good research for impact on an audience and performers. The volume includes multiple scenes from contemporary ethnodramas plus two complete play scripts as exemplars of the genre."

Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change Table of Contents posted

The second text, in the CAIP (Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice) Research Series, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, Detselig Temeron Press, Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change is a project of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice and features research articles describing the creative arts in research within neighbourhoods, villages and cities for change .

The important role of the arts for community and cultural change and in research expressing and raising awareness about the immigrant experience is also discussed. The book features illustrative research articles about immigration and identity, racism, aboriginal health and institutional life, mental health, disability and other vital community issues such as arts and research for access to clean water and raising environmental consciousness. This book will be released in June 2011.

The Table of Contents which includes a general description of topics and articles has been posted today. Visit the book blog here

Seeking Book Reviews, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, Editor Cheryl L. McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, Publisher Detselig Temeron Press, Calgary was released in August 2010. Since its release, the book has been purchased by educators, students and professionals across Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe. If you have purchased a copy of this book and would like to submit a book review contact IJCAIP, International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice office by email at CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com. A number of these reviews will be published in the next issue of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, the international open access journal of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice @ http://www.ijcaip.com and on our IJCAIP blogs.

Books of Note

New Book,

THE DRAMATIC LEGACY OF DOROTHY DAVIS AND VIOLET WALTERS

The Montreal Children's Theatre, 1933-2009

By Muriel Gold, C.M., Ph.D.

"It was 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. Montrealers, like their counterparts in other countries, were inundated with financial burdens. Uppermost in most parents’ minds was the task of supporting their families. Dance lessons, music lessons, drama lessons were considered in many quarters as “frills.” This pervasive mood did not daunt two young women, Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters, from initiating their mission. Instead, it spurred them on. Difficult times , they believed, were all the more reason to inspire children through the love of the arts, in this case drama and theatre Muriel Gold tells the story of these two dynamic women through innumerable anecdotes, often hilarious, sometimes moving, but always a compelling and fascinating read."

Quote from i Universe
more information


Perhaps this sets an example in terms of our challenging economic times and the vital importance today of fostering creativity and supporting the arts and arts education. cm

Enter for an Opportunity to Win, Tell us about Creative Arts, Hope and Change

CAIP Research Series
Inquiries for Hope and Change Essay Contest

Do you think the creative arts in research and interdisciplinary practice can help lead to hope and change?

If so tell us why in 250 wds. or less and you could qualify to enter a draw for a new copy of the book

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" which will be sent directly to you.

We'll draw for the book December 5 and announce

results at the book blog at http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com. Top essay entries will be published at

the CAIP book blog at http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com.

Here's how to enter the Hope for Change Essay Contest:

Send your essay by email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "Hope for Change Essay" in subject line.

250 wds. or less

Word attachment

Double space

Entries must be original and not previously published.

Be sure to include name and email address.

To qualify all entries must be received before October 30.

We will look forward to your entries.

About the book

Table of Contents

"At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references."

Best wishes,
We look forward to your entries.




INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE IJCAIP

Groundbreaking Book Illustrates Creative Arts in Research and Action for Hope and Change

Just Released!

Press Release, September 2, 2010

A project of the
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE


A new book featuring illustrative examples of the creative arts in research and action will help shape the emerging field of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice.

The inaugural book in the CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, research series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" has been released today and is now available for purchase. The book (editor Cheryl McLean, Publisher of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, associate editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Fine Art, University of Calgary) is a project of IJCAIP, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, and is published by Detselig Temeron Books, Calgary. The groundbreaking book introduces an emerging and rapidly growing field with a dynamic collection of illustrative articles featuring artists, leading academics, health researchers, nurse educators, physicians, educators, environmentalists and others who actively use the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice in cutting edged research and in methodologies for health, hope and change. Readers will learn how the creative arts can offer unique opportunities to embody and re-illuminate the human story, stage human vulnerability, foster citizenship and give voice to narratives of human experience.

At over 400 pages, this is a rich and multifaceted collection of articles and chapters about the creative arts in health and interdisciplinary practice, an accessible yet highly informative text that enlightens the reader about the inquiries and the processes while offering first hand insights into approaches, stories of the work in practice, how to method based exercises and lists of comprehensive references.

"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" is a contemporary research collection that features methods that are participative, communal, active and experiential. It speaks of approaches that actively re-illuminate lived experiences and foster and encourage deep and multi-sensory communication and embodied forms of expression with elements visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. In this book, we bring together a field that stresses the vital importance of creativity and the human story, a body of work that seeks to help give voice to the silenced, the oppressed and the marginalized, narrative accounts of personal transformation that honour creative expression as fundamental and at the very source of human meaning and purpose. We invite you to journey through these articles and share in accounts of the creative arts in interdisciplinary practice for hope and change" Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal.

About the book



Table of Contents

Editors



Inside news contributors


Here is a list of just a few of the contributors featured in the book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change:

Izumi Sakamoto Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Toronto

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Ph.D., artist/researcher and Assistant professor, Critical Disability Studies, York University

John Sullivan, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Preventive medicine and Community Health, Public forum and Toxics Assistance, University of Texas Medical Branch

Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN, Assistant professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Lata Pada, choreographer, Adjunct Professor, York University, Dance (Order of Canada recipient)

Johnny Saldana, playwright/actor, Professor of Theatre, School of Theatre and Film, Arizona State University

Ian Prinsloo MFA, (former AD, Theatre Calgary)

Lorna Boschman, Documentary and Media Artist, PhD (in process) Simon Fraser

George Belliveau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Susan K. MacRae, Registered Nurse, (former Deputy Director, University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics)

Jacqui Gingras PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Sherry Fontaine Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Healthcare Leadership, Park University

Seema Shah MD, MSPH

Kim Bullock, MD, Director of Community Health Division, Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

John J. Guiney Yallop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Education , Acadia University

Ardra Cole, EdD, Professor and Co-director, Centre for Arts informed Research, OISE, University of Toronto

Maura McIntyre Ed.D, Adjunct Professor, OISE, Centre for Arts informed Research, University of Toronto

Research Text, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Practice, Call for Abstracts

CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series

Publisher: Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D.

Call for Abstracts

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com )"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice. About the book

New Call for Abstracts:

In the second research text in the series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research for Community Change Across Cultures" there will be a particular focus on arts and community based research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities. We are interested in arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders. Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts of new work offering hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas of special interest:

• arts research and community based research CBR/ arts and participatory methods
• arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
• arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
• ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
• arts in research for improved health and quality of life, poverty, homelessness, environment, disability, youth, crime, aging, urban studies

• arts in research used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods and creative approaches to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working actively within communities and beyond borders to foster change.

Submissions for Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

Send an abstract (max. l pg.) as a Word attachment, with a short bio and a brief list of references to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission Research for Community Change Across Cultures” in the subject line.

Deadline: March 20, 2010 Selected candidates will be contacted with a request for full articles and additional information will be provided at that time. Due date for full articles will be e/o May 2010. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Nutritional Science, Educator/Dietitian Ventures Across Borders with New Book

We were pleased to receive news today about Jacqui Gringras, Ph.D, RD and her recently released book "Longing for Recognition", York, UK: Raw Nerve Books.

"Longing for Recognition offers a radical new way of understanding nutritional health practices. In contemporary food culture, the work of dietitians has accrued new and urgent meaning, and "Longing for Recognition" is addressed to that group of practitioners. The author, herself a dietitian, crafts an autoethnographic fiction that presents a critical and thought-provoking argument for a more self-reflexive, relational, and embodied profession. Her compelling narrative draws the reader into its timely call for rethinking what counts as knowledge in
dietetic education. "Longing for Recognition" will be invaluable for dietitians and other health care professionals who wish to enhance their practice as one that considers first and foremost what it means to be human."

Jacqui's progressive research engages autoethnographic, phenomenological and arts informed methods as a means for understanding dietetic theory, education and practice. She has also taught courses at Ryerson University School of Nutrition, among them, "The Art of Storytelling: Advances in Nutrition Counselling Practice." CM




Information about this book

Picks from the Bookshelf. New section added at CCAHTE "Crossing Borders" blog

posted by: Cheryl McLean
Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal

Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season! I've added a new section to our "Crossing Borders" blog. Check out the sidebar at the right and scroll down to "Picks from the book shelf" Here you'll find an eclectic collection of a few recommended books. Among them "Performance Ethnography a Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture" by Norman K. Denzin.


(excerpt from the book jacket)
"Performance Ethnography is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers pedagogy, ethnography, performance and theory as the foundation for a performative social science. Part 11 addresses the worlds of family, nature, praxis and action employing a structure that is equal parts memoir, essay, short story and literary autoethnography. Part 111 examines the ethics and practical politics of performance autoethnography anchored in the post 9/ll discourse in the United States."



"For anyone interested in qualitative research and performative social science or ethnodrama in health this book is highly recommended. Dr. Denzin also includes several of his own performance texts in part 11 of the book. They are rich, multi layered and insightful stories grounded in history and personal experience. This is more than a book. It is a gift from one of the world's leaders in qualitative research for those of us interested in writing performances that educate and challenge while advocating for change."

Cheryl McLean, Publisher, Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE)

(after taking the book out from The University of Western Ontario Library about 20 times, I was pleased to receive my own special copy as a gift for Christmas. CM)

Another gift.
If you haven't already subscribed to The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE) you can subscribe without charge with an email to ccahte@cmclean.com "please subscribe". We look forward to hearing from you!

Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE) New Book Review Policy

An open letter to authors, editors and publishers from Cheryl McLean, publisher ,The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE)


I am pleased at the number of requests we receive weekly at The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal (CCAHTE) from authors, editors and publishers requesting book reviews.

At CCAHTE we receive hundreds of requests for book reviews. As we are so frequently approached to review many excellent new books and texts related to the creative arts in health, training and education , and our limited schedules cannot accommodate all of the requests we receive, we have developed a new policy with regard to book reviews.


1. first step, you will be asked to read this post.

2. next, send us a synopsis about your book to ccahte@cmclean.com and link us to any news about it. A sample chapter would be ideal.

3. Based on the synopsis you could be asked to send your book directly to the CCAHTE Office.

A payment by certified cheque or money order of $100 to cover administrative costs should be sent with your package.

C. McLean, Publisher CCAHTE Journal
c/o 165 Huntington Cr.
Dorchester, Ontario
NOL lG3

Once we receive your book we will complete a formal book review. The review will be published in our upcoming CCAHTE, Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal issue in our book review section.

In addition, we will also arrange to publish a summary post about your book at the Arts and Health "Crossing Borders" BLOG at ccahtecrossingborders.blogspot.com. Our blog is accessed daily by international visitors specifically interested in our interdisciplinary field.

Why do we charge a fee for reviews? We are an open access journal available and accessible free worldwide and we do not charge for subscriber memberships or subscriptions. Services such as reviews help sustain our publishing operations.

Background for Editors and Publishers:

Established March 06, CCAHTE Journal is the Canadian based international and interdisciplinary open access, peer reviewed journal of the creative arts in health, training and education. Our ongoing mission is to disseminate quality information and research about the creative arts in action and practice in health, training and education. In addition to our qualified network of professional subscribers, CCAHTE, The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal, is accessible worldwide and is listed with DOAJ , the internationally recognized directory of academic open access journals.

Our CCAHTE Journal Advisory Board is made up of leading scholars, educators, healthcare professionals and scientists as well as artist/researchers active in the arts, health, training and education.

Who accesses CCAHTE Journal?
Among our "by request" subscribers are physicians, psychiatrists, social scientists, researchers, academics, nurse educators, activists, dramatists, visual artists, music and dance therapists, professional musicians, teachers, adult educators, social workers, mental health professionals, counselors, chaplains, therapists, students as well as those involved in education, health policy and social change... our subscribers also represent universities, schools of education, colleges, leading medical schools, hospitals and health organizations in Canada the U.S. and internationally.
Thanks sincerely to all of you for your interest in CCAHTE Journal. It is very encouraging to know so many new books are being written about the creative arts in health, training and education. This I believe is another important indication demonstrating the worldwide interest in the work in action and practice.

Thanks all and hope you are enjoying these precious summer days in August,

Cheryl McLean, Publisher CCAHTE Journal

Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal

The Canadian based, international and interdisciplinary open access peer reviewed journal of the creative arts in health, training and education.

Creative Expression, Creative Education New Book Opens Way for Innovation and Change

Creative Expression, Creative Education: Creativity As A Primary Rationale For Education
Book by Robert Kelly and Carl Leggo opens the way for innovation, creativity and change in education

Robert Kelly, Fine Arts, University of Calgary , and a member of the CCAHTE Journal Advisory Board, will soon be releasing a new book with Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia, “Creative Expression,Creative Education,” which will feature contributions from close to 20 creative thinkers sharing their experiences and bearing witness to acts of creativity in practice.

The Creative Expression, Creative Education book project involves twenty well known creative producers from across Canada who bear witness to their ways of creating. These examples of contemporary creative expression come from a wide range of disciplines. Novelists, poets, playwrights, visual artists, composers, directors and choreographers combine to present their unique perspectives on creativity. This first hand research into creative practice provides a backdrop for a work that is a manifesto for creativity as a primary rationale for education.

The examples of contemporary creative practice are melded with creativity theory to establish a vocabulary and understanding for creative practice in an educational setting.

Robert Kelly is an artist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. His research encompasses artistic process, creativity theory, design, and curriculum theory.

Carl Leggo ,a contributor to our September 07 issue of CCAHTE Journal, is a poet and Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the experiences of educators, especially how to promote heartful and hopeful relationships in educational communities.

For info. about this book: Info: rkelly@ucalgary.ca


"Contemporary educational practice struggles to deal with the juggernaut of the hyper-consumption of information as disciplines become increasingly dense with content. What is the usefulness of accumulating masses of information without equipping learners with a disposition that enables the application of knowledge for the purposes of exploring and creating? Mass consumption is the main engine of the Information age, with fact as its currency. The Conceptual Age is driven by creativity, in which ideas are the primary currency. Idea generation and idea growth and development are the indispensable cores of creativity as ideas are shared and grown into new and wondrous forms."

Robert Kelly, Creative Expression, Creative Education

Beginning September 23rd on Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks - Creativity and Educational Practice, a 500-level credit course through the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. Register now. info: rkelly@ucalgary.ca

visit Robert Kelly's website

Creativity in Education, New Book Features Creative Thinkers

Recent news……Robert Kelly, “Creative Expression, Creative Education”


Robert Kelly, Fine Arts, University of Calgary , and a member of the CCAHTE Journal Advisory Board, will soon be releasing a new book with Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia, “Creative Expression,
Creative Education,” which will feature contributions from close to 20 creative thinkers sharing their experiences and bearing witness to acts of creativity in practice. This is a progressive concept for a new book that could open the way for innovative methodologies, innovation and change. Info: rkelly@ucalgary.ca

Books by Canadian Writers Pat Capponi, Yvonne Trainer

Great books

I want to direct you to some excellent reading that may be of interest....

I recently read a very powerful and provocative book on mental health.... "Beyond the Crazy House" the Changing Future of Madness by writer, Pat Capponi from Toronto. I found this book to be direct, honest and deeply wise. Capponi proves through her accounts, personal histories and intimate reports that there is a critical need for change but, beyond the many challenges there can be hope, life and dignity "Beyond the Crazy House"...a home, a job and a friend. This book is written by a great teacher as well as a sensitive leader who is helping to "change the future of madness" in Canada and beyond.

Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Crazy House" at http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141005102,00.html?sym=EXC

"As for me, on most days I'm filled with a deep sense of pride and shared accomplishment. We are survivors, and more than just survivors: we are groundbreakers and role models and teachers and leaders. and though there remains much to do, much to fight, much to plan, we have made a tremendous start, for ourselves and for others. Madness will never be the same."
Pat Capponi


Another excellent book, a collection of poems about an unforgettable First Nations cowboy,

Tom Three Persons A Multimedia Poetry Sequence
by Yvonne Trainer Ph.D.

I also had an opportunity recently to read the poetry collection "Tom Three Persons", described as "a postmodern poem", a multimedia poetry sequence and a work of Prairie Realism. Written by Yvonne Trainer Ph.D., this book of found poems is well researched and based on archival material and historical accounts and deals with the life of "Tom Three Persons" a Blood and bronco rider from the Standoff Reserve in Alberta who won the Calgary Stampede championship in 1912 on a horse named "Cyclone"...the horse that 126 other cowboys had not been able to ride.

The poems were originally delivered as a 30 minute recitation (performance). I found
the book moving visually as well as poetically...as a postmodern collection with photos (black and white) to create the feel of a poetic documentary. Yvonne creates in this unique work a "living" and intimate voice that seems to take us deeper and more inward with each poem and reading. It is revealing and honest writing and tells through action about the high points and many challenges Tom faced during his successful rodeo career while also sharing insights about the history, the man and the times.


For more about this book and Yvonne Trainer's poetry http://frontenachouse.com/index.php/titles/single/tom_three_persons/

and news....

In addition to her work as a scholar, professor and poet, Yvonne has been working all summer and into Fall to help launch a new site for book lovers. It includes a Book Club, Book discussions, a Weekly Featured Writer (mainly poets) and a Women Who Love to Read Project, plus blogs about books and writers. New features will appear weekly on the site.

Visit:

http://www.fairsfair.com/