Critically and Culturally Responsive Art Education
ARED 5310/7310
3 hours
Critically and Culturally Responsive Art Education
Course Description
Students formulate an understanding of art/education as a cultural endeavor informed by and responsive to issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and cultural marginalization in historical and contemporary society. Past approaches to multiculturalism are investigated through a critical lens, and current pedagogical, curricular, and artistic approaches are introduced.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students are required to do additional, more rigorous readings and complete versions of the course projects that are more conceptually and scholastically challenging.
Athena Title
Crit and Cultur Respons ArtEd
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every even-numbered year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to critically investigate identity as a social construct, especially as a means of better understanding one’s positionality (as a teacher/artist/researcher) in relation to social others.
Students will be able to critically investigate the ways that social norms, constructs, and discourses generate structural inequities and oppression, and identify implications for art/education in schools, communities, and other institutions.
Students will be able to identify the range of issues encompassed in multicultural education and the arts, including but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, and cultural marginalization.
Students will be able to critically review the historical role of art/education in relation to issues of multiculturalism.
Students will be able to explore the contemporary role of art/education in relation to issues of multiculturalism.
Students will be able to critically engage with resources and materials relevant to multicultural art/education.
Students will be able to explore artistic modes for engaging learners in culturally responsive investigations.
Students will be able to develop the capacity to plan and lead a culturally responsive art educational experience informed by course concepts.
Students will be able to synthesize course knowledge through visual/verbal expression guided by a relevant theoretical framework (e.g., critical race theory, critical pedagogy, critical multiculturalism, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies).
Topical Outline
Investigate issues of equity, oppression, and multiculturalism in education and art education.
Investigate past versions of multiculturalism through a critical lens, and engage with current pedagogical, curricular, and artistic approaches.
Pursue critical investigations through readings, discussions, and activities that gradually build knowledge with the ultimate goal of applying this knowledge through major projects in the latter part of the course. Examples of major course projects include but are not limited to planning and leading a culturally responsive art educational experience; synthesizing course knowledge by writing a scholarly article; or developing an arts-based inquiry guided by a relevant theoretical framework.
Apply course content to school contexts and/or other diverse contexts/practices such as community arts, museums, artistic practice, and social/cultural/political activism.
