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Engaging with the arts and education in the Mediterranean is not unlike walking an intellectual tightrope. Or better still, such an undertaking could be compared to traversing a mesh made of scores of tightropes that intersect each other like a delicate weave, alternating between moments of respite and dizzying gaps or dilemmas.
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Baldacchino, J., Vella, R. (2013). Introduction. In: Baldacchino, J., Vella, R. (eds) Mediterranean Art and Education. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-461-1_1
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