This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene's philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the social justice implications of marginalized students having access to the arts and opportunities to find their voices through creative expression. They aim to demystify the process of inquiry-based learning through the arts for teachers and teacher educators by offering examples of lessons taught in high school classrooms and graduate level teaching methods courses. Examples of student writing and art work show how creative interactions with the arts can help learners of all ages deepen their skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene's philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the social justice implications of marginalized students having access to the arts and opportunities to find their voices through creative expression. They aim to demystify the process of inquiry-based learning through the arts for teachers and teacher educators by offering examples of lessons taught in high school classrooms and graduate level teaching methods courses. Examples of student writing and art work show how creative interactions with the arts can help learners of all ages deepen their skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

The Dance of the Ocean: The Scripter Trilogy (Book 2) Ava seeks the help of an unlikely source in order to keep her identity concealed during her quest to rescue a family member. Complications arise when she is consumed by emotions that she can no longer ignore. Ava is faced with a decision that will not only change her life forever, but will leave the future of the world in peril.

After uncovering and writing in a three-thousand-year-old book, eighteen-year-old Ava Baker escapes through a portal that she believes is nothing more than a vivid dream. Her urge to write isn't solely based on her journey, but also by an alluring man named Collin, whom she meets between the pages. Their mutual, unabiding affection has them bound to each other in ways much deeper than either one can explain. When Collin divulges secrets to Ava and reveals that the book is being hunted by rival secret societies, it sends their relationship and Ava's life into a tailspin. The very thing that brought them together is also what threatens to tear them apart. Are Collin and the revelations only figments of her imagination? Or, is it all a reality and her divine destiny?