Dr Eleonora Belfiore is the author of a book chapter entitled "The ‘Transformative Power’ of the Arts: History of an Idea" part of the multidisciplinary edited collection of essays entited The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones and Liora Bresler and published in July 2011.

The chapter draws on Eleonora's previous work on the intellectual history of the notion of the social impact of the arts. You can read more about Eleonora's work in this area here and on Eleonora's personal staff page.

Further information on The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning is available from the Routledge web site.