jel185I think art in general needs to cover many sociohistorical concepts to illustrate the reasons why artists created this work. I think just showing nothing but technic or theories isn’t the true reasons why artist’s created artwork. Artists are embedded in their culture creating art. Furthermore, I believe you are only going to learn art by doing but again it is important to put yourself into the world of artist if you want to create this type of work. Of course then for original works, we hope artists are basing them off their own culture.
jel185I believe it mentions these contexts but never really goes in-depth. This could be due to the fact nobody in public schools want to talk about issues of gender, race, age, sexuality, and disability because it could be inappropriate. Because of all the negative experiences where teachers have taken it too far which unfortunately happens, it may be hard to convince your school to have discussions about these topics. However, they are important and are significant to our culture.
jel185We need to educate the administration behind the curriculum. This could be during meetings, a presentation, basically whatever it takes to show what has changed. I truly believe those who are involved in the decision processes do not know when the curriculum is not culturally responsive. More in likely they are comparing past cultures, a curriculum that has been seen in the past and one used regularly. As a teacher I believe we need to embrace what is out there. Sure students might on their own but it will be helpful if we could guide them.
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