Emerging Feminisms at a Regional Multicultural Magnet School: Applications of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Curriculum Project through a Service-Learning Partnership

• In Event: Feminist Classrooms: Social Justice Practices in K-12 and Universities

Abstract

This paper will explore the processes and outcomes of a service-learning partnership between a regional multicultural magnet school and research university. In fall 2013, fourth graders worked side-by-side with college students to research and produce three-dimensional art projects based on feminist artist Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party Curriculum Project. This paper will provide an overview of the processes, successes, and challenges of interdisciplinary teaching and learning across institutions employing a service-learning pedagogy, as well as the possibilities for transforming multicultural education curricula through feminisms and the arts.

Presenter

• Nancy Parent, University of Connecticut