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The Past Is Present: Ignored Histories of Art Education

Sat, April 14, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Third Floor, Room 3.04-3.05

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Throughout many educational disciplines, the written histories favor white heterosexual male narratives of linear progress and assume that tools and technologies are neutral. This session addresses some of the ignored histories and problematizes tools and technologies as contested sites. Through a series of papers on the role of textbooks and photography followed by an overview of multicultural practices and concluding with papers on the work of two specific female art educators, this session complicates traditional narrative understandings of the history of art education, including the pivotal book by Arthur Efland (1990). In order to reduce the curriculum violence (Ighodaro & Wiggan, 2011) inflicted upon our art education students, it is paramount that they see themselves reflected in the curriculum.

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