This collection of essays focuses on such topics as the daily experience of teaching art in today's public schools; the tradition of honoring only the European patriarchal canon; structural change in school policy and curriculum and teaching.
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Teaching as Transgression xiii Dennis Earl Fehr Part I Real-World Classroom Voices: Protesting the Rules 1(34) Karen Keifer-Boyd Familiar Voices and the Need for Reform 3(8) Kathleen E. Connors Making a Difference 11(10) Elizabeth Manley Delacruz Feminist and Critical Pedagogies: Intersections and Divergences 21(8) Yvonne Gaudelius Deconstructing Media Images of Postmodern Childhood 29(6) Paul Duncum Part II Real-World Aesthetics: Breaking the Rules 35(38) Kris Fehr Gender Politics in the Back Seat of a Lowrider 37(10) Dennis Earl Fehr Unmasking Ordinary Experience in Art 47(8) Grace Deniston-Trochta Mountain Culture: No Hillbillies Here 55(10) Christine Ballengee Morris You Dont Need a Penis to Be a Genius 65(8) Deborah Smith-Shank Part III Real-World Art Lessons: Ignoring the Rules 73(50) Kris Fehr Investigating the Culture of Curriculum 75(8) Olivia Gude Art in the Dark: A Nonvisual Learners Curriculum 83(8) Lisette Ewing Tough School Teaching: Myths of Creation and Destruction 91(8) Frank Pio Simply Sacred 99(8) Future Akins Identity, Sexuality, and Power: Art and the Media 107(6) Mary Wyrick Sexual Identity in the Art Room 113(10) Laurel Lampela Part IV Real-World Structural Change: Rewriting the Rules 123(44) Karen Keifer-Boyd A Field Guide for Art Educators: Guerrilla Tactics for Change 127(10) Gayle Marie Weitz Marianne Stevens Suggs Caught Between Control and Creativity: Boredom Strikes the Art Room 137(10) Ed Check Going Nowhere: Exploring the Cyberspace Between Our Ears 147(8) Michael J. Emme By the People: A Community-Based Art Curriculum 155(12) Karen Keifer-Boyd Contributors 167(4) Index 171
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