Reknowing: Art + Education

A place with reminders, resources & prompts to check your privilege. A place to reknow what you thought you knew. Navigate via the Menu tab.

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3 ways to speak English | Jamila Lyiscott

Jamila Lyiscott is a "tri-tongued orator," and this powerful spoken-word essay celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks...

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Suzanne Lacey, The Oakland Projects (1991-2001)

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NativeLand.ca

Welcome to Native Land. This is a resource for North Americans (and others) to find out more about local Indigenous territories and languages.

Learn more about Land Acknowledgement via U.S. Department of Arts & Culture

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Growing Reading List

Some I’ve read parts, some I want to reread, some I don’t want to forget. 

Always growing....

Beverly Tatum, Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together? And Other Conversations About Race

Mica Pollock, Everyday Anti-Racism

Lee Bell, Storytelling for Social Justice

Maurice Beger, White: Whiteness and race in contemporary art

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy for the Oppressed

Ira Shor & Paulo Freire, A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education 

Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

Gloria Ladson Billings, Just what is CRT and what’s it doing in a nice field like Education?

bell hooks, Art On My Mind

Dipti Desai, “The Challenges of New Colorblind Racism in Art Education”, in Art Education 2010

Susan Cahan and Zoya Kocur, Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (specifically the chapter “Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education”)

Christine Sleeter, Race, Gender, And Class 

Jessie Whitehead, “Counternarratives: Considering Urban Students Voices in Art Education” in_ Transforming City Schools Through Art_, Eds. Karen Hutzel, Flavia Bastos, Kim Cosier

J.B. Acuff (2014). “(mis)Information highways: A critique of online resources for multicultural art education,” in International Journal of Education through Art, 10(3), 303-316.

Wanda Knight “E(Raced) bodies in and out of sight/cite/site” in Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Vol 26

Sara Ahmed, “A Phenomenology of Whiteness” in Feminist Theory, Vol. 8(2)

Wayne Au, Rethinking Multicultural Education

William Ayers & Ryan Alexander-Tanner, To Teach: The Journey, in Comics

Marit Dewhust, Social Justice Art 

Douglas G. Boughton, Assessment of Performance in the Visual Arts: What, How and Why?

Olivia Gude, “Drawing Color Lines”, in Art Education, Jan 2000, 53, no1

Olivia Gude, “Principles of Possibility: Considerations for a 21st-Century Art & Culture Curriculum”, in Art Education, January 2007, 60, no1

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WHO DECIDES WHAT THE STANDARDS ARE?

WHO IS SAYS WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT IS NOT?

From “Liberating the Curriculum” in To Teach: The Journey, in Comics by William Ayers & Ryan Alexander-Tanner (2010)

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From “Liberating the Curriculum” in To Teach: The Journey, in Comics by William Ayers & Ryan Alexander-Tanner

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Curriculum Check

When was the last time you revised your curriculum? 

Is it still relevant? Is it challenging you? Is it culturally responsive to current students? What is the narrative? Who is missing?

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Power Check

Not “your” students.

You do not own them. 

They are their own selves. 

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Teach WITH students, not at.

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How can I motivate students unless they act with me?

Ira Shore (1987) 

Ira Shore & Paulo Freire, A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues for Transforming Education

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YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED on Instagram: “SOLIDARITY 101 - Easy Ways To Be A Great Ally! . . . A cheeky #video I did w the incredible production and direction of @taniasafi and…”

5,205 Likes, 205 Comments - YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED (@yassmin_a) on Instagram: “SOLIDARITY 101 - Easy Ways To Be A Great Ally! . . . A cheeky #video I did w the incredible…”

When someone asks, “But how can I be an ally?”

Replace racist for sexist, homophobic, classist, & any OTHERNESS. 

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Who is missing from the narrative?

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Hank Willis Thomas, Branded Head, 2003

Now Go Read: 

Alessandra Raengo, “©amouflage” in On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture

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Derrick Adams, from Sancturary at Museum of Art + Design