Art entrepreneurship afterschool: Providing marginalized youth toolkits for success

The following paper argues for arts-based afterschool programming that focuses on the creation of highly crafted objects and entrepreneurial behaviors. The researcher's interests in this topic stem from a life-changing experience as an art director at a non-profit leadership camp. From this experience, questions and hypotheses have risen about the value of art lessons in contemporary society, and the researcher has assembled a compilation of studies and theories to further inform these questions. Research in the fields of art education, entrepreneurial education, afterschool programming, self-efficacy, and cultural capital provide grounding and applications for the lessons learned at the leadership camp.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Mackus, Sara C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Delacruz, Elizabeth M.

• Art Education
• entrepreneurial education
• afterschool programming
• self-efficacy
• cultural capital

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Sara C. Mackus

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24129

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/24129