Recently added articles from Art Education:
Art Education in the Spirit of Sankofa
Mar 01, 2009; ... This issue of Art Education is loosely inspired by the Ghanaian concept of Sankofa. Sankofa is an Akan (Ghanaian) word that means "return to the source and fetch" (Tedia, 1995, p. 1). Represented as an abstract motif of a stylized bird, as in the Adinkra symbol reproduced here, it refers to a ...
What Education Can Learn from the Arts
Mar 01, 2009; ... The discovery of scientifically-based knowledge as a way to improve the practice of education has been a long standing ambition. This has been particularly true at a time when schools are under fire and solutions are searched for in virtually every corner or the globe. What is the best way to ...
Rethink, Reimagine, Reinvent: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Incorporating Reclaimed Materials in Children's Artworks
Mar 01, 2009; ... "I wonder why somebody thought these were trash. I think I can use this one in my artwork. Maybe for the background." -A second grade student exploring scrap textile pieces Assemblage art involves the creation of new and innovative artworks from what were once considered objects ...
Within Connections: Empathy, Mirror Neurons, and Art Education
Mar 01, 2009; ... The capacity for empathy is important to the human community, and the art classroom provides a unique environment in which this capacity can be developed. Connections to objects of art and material culture, as forged by individual students and also shared with classmates, can be as empathic as ...
Aminah's World
Mar 01, 2009; ... Recommended for grades 6-8 For more than 60 years, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson has created art that documents her own experiences and the stories handed down to her from her family. She captures the character of the neighborhoods where she has lived and the places she has visited, and ...
Invisibility of Blackness: Visual Responses of Kerry James Marshall
Mar 01, 2009; ... Invisible is defined as (a) unable to be seen, and (b) treated as if unable to be seen; ignored (http://www. askoxford.com/concise_oed/invisible).Blackisdescribed as (a) of the very darkest color, and (b) relating to a human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of African or Australian ...
IMMERSION REQUIRED: An Artist Teacher Living, Teaching, and Studying Art in an Unfamiliar Culture
Mar 01, 2009; ... Just after recess on a fall morning, the door to the art classroom opens and the school secre- tary enters with a small, frightened-looking woman and a smaller and even more fright- ened-looking girl. The secretary introduces the girl as Hanna. She advises that Hanna does not speak English.The ...
The Aesthetics of STYLE in an Urban High School Art Class
Mar 01, 2009; ... Instead of people saying like, who you hang out with or what your favorite color is, you wear it in your clothes because they express your feelings and what your style is. (Dee,1 personal communication, March 2, 2007) As an art educator in an urban high school in Baltimore, I am ...
Transitions
Jan 01, 2009; ... They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. January is a time for reflection. The start of the new calendar year brings hopes for new beginnings and reverence for what came before, and it is at this time of transition that I am writing my ...
Close to Home: Studying Art and Your Community
Jan 01, 2009; ... Powers (1999) stated, "To live in the world is to live in a community" (p. 23). However, Bolin (2000) contended that we often overlook times, places, and people from our surrounding areas. A local focus can give art educators a familiar basis to introduce and expand content. A community-inspired ...
Images of Women in Visual Culture
Jan 01, 2009; ... Visual culture permeates women's everyday lives, affecting how they see themselves, the world, and their relationships With Others. On the Internet and television, in grocery stores, childcare centers, shopping malls, bookstores, and art galleries, women are bombarded with images aimed ...
Learning OUTSIDE the Box: How Mayan Pedagogy Informs a Community/University Partnership
Jan 01, 2009; ... My experiences learning with Maya painters in their studios suggested a possible transfer of such teaching methods tc other contexts such as this mural project. In this article I describe a project in which professors and preservice art educators from Northern Illinois University (NIU) ...
Identity In Flux: Exploring the Work of Nikki S. Lee
Jan 01, 2009; ... Recommended for grades 9-12 Introduction Ahh, teen angst. I must admit, when I think of my teen years, I recall a host of film director John Hughes' movies: Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club. In each of these films, the characters belonged to certain cliques ...
Media Literacy Art Education: Logos, culture jamming and Activism
Jan 01, 2009; ... American youth live in a world saturated with popular media constructs that not only sway them into purchasing and consuming, but also influence how they experience and learn about the world. Widely disseminated media constructs1 such as advertisements and TV commercials often serve as ...
Bringing Children to Art-Bringing Art to Children
Jan 01, 2009; ... A museum isn't just a place where we keep art, it is a place where the public, the students and we can view, respond and learn about art and ourselves. (S. Hock, personal communication, May 2, 2002) A commitment to providing students with multiple learning venues is the ...
Personal Spaces: Students Creating Meaning Through Big Ideas
Jan 01, 2009; ... "Hey, he's back, the Life-Giver!" "All hail, Kay! All hail, Kay!" -Men in Black II Every once in a while, stray fragments from art or popular culture spark our imaginations and trigger an idea for developing an art curriculum project. In the above scene from the movie Men ...
EDITORIAL
Nov 01, 2008; ... No matter what I do as editor, how the reviewers advise me, or what the authors submit, this journal first and foremost functions only because you read it. Even then its purpose, effect, and meaning depend upon not only if, but how you read. As this is my last issue as editor of this journal, I ...
Image, Text, and Story: Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Nov 01, 2008; ... Comics and graphic novels are powerful teaching tools; reading and making comics encourages students to become more skilled at critically consuming and creating texts that examine complex concepts (Frey 8c Fischer, 2004; Morrison, Bryan, & Chilcoat, 2002; Berkowitz & Packer, 2001) ....
When Vines Talk: Community, Art, and Ecology
Nov 01, 2008; ... Place ... is sometimes a setting, but is most often married to memory, imagination, and our embodied experiences in such a way that words like emplaced, displaced, replaced, or out-of-place conjure up meanings that are felt immediately and viscerally. It is a mixed group of community ...
Build-A-Bear Workshop: Its Aesthetic and Ideology
Nov 01, 2008; ... A new responsibility given to today's educators is to help students understand the popular visual culture that they experience everyday. Art teachers can make a unique contribution to that understanding by examining the ideological messages of visual culture through their aesthetic features. In ...