- Curriculum Connections
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Fine Arts
- Knowledge and Employability
- Rural Experience
- Description
In Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour, Kate Beaton tackles the themes of history, labour, and artistic expression and how people and societies value them. The author presents a range of personal stories intertwined with historical analysis and, in doing so, demystifies artistic expression and labour as social constructs. She exposes the role of class in art by revealing the brutal interplay of labour, self-worth, and creativity. For high school educators in Alberta, this text offers a rich resource for discussing themes of resilience, identity, and societal impact in a classroom setting. Educators could use the book to foster critical thinking by encouraging students to draw connections between historical and contemporary issues of labour and artistic expression. This text would be particularly valuable for cross-curricular lessons that integrate social studies, literature, and art education. Though it covers many complex topics, like labour and class, the tone is very conversational, and the text would lend itself well to being broken into excerpts for lessons.
- ISBN
- 9781772128000
- List Price
- $14.99
- ISBN
- 9781772128185
- List Price
- $14.99
Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour
By Kate Beaton (Author)
