Visions of Sustainability for Arts Education: Value, Challenge and Potential -- Arts Education in a Changing World -- Arts and Culture Without Policy: Spontaneous Initiatives by Non-governmental and Civil Society Groups in Hong Kong -- Improvisation, Community Music, and Cultural Sustainability: An Action Research Study -- The Artist-in-Residence in Teacher Education: What is Sustainable? -- Tooling Kenya’s Jua Kali Sector: Artistic Learning for Enhanced Design Practice and Planning Using Reflective Practice -- How Do We Know What We Have Achieved After the Seoul Agenda?: Constructing Qualitative Indicators for Sustainable Development for Arts Education -- Supporting Arts Engagement in Rural Ontario: Mapping the Organizational Landscape -- Jamming in the Intercultural Space: Collaborative Creative Processes of an Experimental Music Group in Singapore -- Building Partnerships for Cultural Sustainability in Rural Schools: Action Plan for Arts Immersion in China -- An A/r/tographic Exploration of Greek Migrant Youth Identities: New Media and Cultural Sustainability -- Cultural Sustainability and (Post-)digital Transformation(s) in the Context of Aesthetic, Arts, and Cultural Education -- Ethnocentrism in Rural Dance Studio Classes: Dance Studio Teachers’ Responses to Cultural Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Becoming Conscious Through the Arts: A Road to Social Sustainability -- Students with Physical Disabilities in High School Drama Education: Stories of Experience -- Creating a Sonic Experience for Babies -- Community Music Practices in Culturally Diverse Classrooms: Promoting Engagement, Inclusion, and Lifelong Learning -- Community Dance in China: A Carnival of Older Dancers.

This book stems from the 2019 meeting of the UNESCO UNITWIN international network for Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development. It presents scholarly, international perspectives on issues surrounding arts education and sustainability that addresses the following questions: What value can the arts add to the education of citizens of the 21st century?; What are the challenges and ways forward to realize the potential of arts education in diverse contexts? The book discusses empirical research and exemplary practices in the arts and arts education around the world, presenting sound theoretical and methodological frames and approaches. It identifies policy implications at national, regional and global levels that cut across social, economic, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainable development.