When Curriculum Becomes Art Practice: Art Education as Engagement with the World

In this video, Carpenter focuses on how educators can disrupt traditional pedagogical models to engage learners with social issues and lived experience. He uses a group activity to demonstrate how curriculum development is a political act that involves choosing not only what is included, but what is excluded. This video will be of particular interest to art educators and curriculum developers.

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People and ideas referenced in this video:

  • Jasper Johns (pop artist).
  • The Elements of Art & Principles of Design (used in traditional arts curricula).
  • Olivia Gude (Art Institute of Chicago) and her development of the “Postmodern Principles”:
  • Storyspace (a hypertext software):
  • Carpenter, B. S. “Never a Dull Moment: Pat's Barbershop as Educational Environment, Hypertext, and Place.” Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 21 (2003): 5–18.
  • John Snow's epidemiology work on the 1854 cholera outbreak in London:
  • Schoolhouse Rock! (TV show) & the “No More Kings” song.
  • Andres Hernandez (Art Institute of Chicago) and his work on informal settlements.