International Journal of Education Through Art, Special Issue Call for Papers
Conflict, Environmental Disaster, and their Aftermath: Repairing Our Broken World through Art.
Guest Editors: Alice Wexler and Marjorie Manifold
As WWII ended, caring, democratic-loving people awakened to an anguished, broken world in need of mending. Many envisioned a society of diverse experts who might work through the creativity of art education towards that healing. Thus, InSEA was founded with the encouragement and support of UNESCO and artists and art educators from around the world. (See Gregory, 1987; Manifold, 2016; Steers, 2001; Ziegfeld, 1952).
Once again, we are at a critical moment in history, unprecedented by our global interconnection and the economic, ecological, and human damage made by disunified nations that disregard their interdependence. Our survival and the survival of other species are at risk due to a critical increase in the past decade of these interconnected emergencies and crises of catastrophic climate change, ecological and human death, ongoing conflicts across the world, the outpouring of refugees, and the challenge of maintaining democratic values in peaceful countries. The 2019 report by the UN Refugee Agency described how conflict and climate change create forced displacement from homes.
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