Practices of Transgression
or Instrumentalisation?
Contemporary practices that connect the arts with learning are wide-
spread at all level of educational systems (Chemi 2016) and in organi-
sations (Taylor and Ladkin 2009). Tis phenomenon includes very
diverse conceptualisations defned by multiple approaches, methods
and background values and concrete practices span from arts-based
facilitation of change processes to systematic integration of the arts in
education. Examples of the former can be visualisation tools applied to
organisational processes (visual facilitation) or theatre used to mirror
relational issues in workplaces (forum theatre). Examples of the latter
can be cross-disciplinary partnerships between schools and artists (arts-
integration, teaching artists) or the extensive use of the arts in scientifc
Transgressive or Instrumental? A Paradigm
for the Arts as Learning and Development
Tatiana Chemi
© Te Author(s) 2018
T. Chemi and X. Du (eds.), Arts-based Methods and Organizational Learning,
Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63808-9_2
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T. Chemi (*)
Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg,
Denmark
e-mail: tc@learning.aau.dk