Art has been used in special education as a way of offering psychic freedom if not bodily freedom by providing a partial antidote to the social problems generated in an impoverished environment. This book balances theory with practical knowledge and offers critical research that challenges the biases regarding the nature of art and education.

Why do we take risks? How does our environment influence us with regards to risks? How do biological and psychological mechanisms interact? How can theoretical works on risk-taking generate effective educational and prevention campaigns? Providing a synthesis of knowledge of risk in social and human sciences this book answers these questions.

George Turnbull one of the earliest of the authors in the Scottish tradition presents natural-law theory on a scientific model in harnessing the arts to promote the principles of moral and civil virtue and in extolling reason as the foundation of liberty. This work gives a more concentrated presentation of his ideas.