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Zusatztext "History as Art! Art as History is a powerful and provocative response to schooling that severs the arts and humanities from the social studies and that cuts both from the academic mainstay. It aims to inspire and empower teachers to make intellectually rich classroom connections between contemporary visual arts and history education in a way that strengthens learning in both domains."--Teachers College RecordWinner of the 2010 AERA Division B Outstanding Contribution Award Informationen zum Autor Dipti Desai is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Art Education Program, Department of Art and Art Professions, at New York University. Jessica Hamlin is the Director of Education and Public Programs for the non-profit organization Art21, Inc. Rachel Mattson is a historian, a teacher educator, and an Assistant Professor, Department of Secondary Education, at SUNY New Paltz. Zusammenfassung Pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. This title provides theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching US history topics through close readings of both primary sources and provocative works of contemporary art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Reframing History and Art 1. Introduction, Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, and Rachel Mattson 2. Using Visual Historical Methods in K-12 Classroom: Tactical Heuristics, Rachel Mattson 3. Curriculum as a Creative Process: An Interview with Artist-Educator Thi Bui, Dipti Desai 4. Artists in the Realm of Historical Methods: The Sound, Smell, and Taste of History, Dipti Desai and Jessica Hamlin 5. "Committing History in Public": Lessons from Artists Working in the Public Realm, Jessica Hamlin and Dipti Desai Part II: Investigating History and Art: A Teaching Toolkit 6. Introduction to the Teaching Toolkits: Visual Approaches to Teaching about History 7. Foundations of Citizenship Section 1: The Constitution and U.S. Government Section 2: Japanese Incarceration 8. Constructing Race Section 1: Slavery and Abolition Section 2: Immigration 9. The United States and the World Section 1: Westward Expansion Section 2: The U.S. War in Vietnam Resources ...
