Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

Mary Stone Hanley is Assistant Professor in Initiatives for Transformative Education, George Mason University.George W. Noblit is the Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Tom Barone is Professor at Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, Arizona State University.Gilda L. Sheppard is Professor of Sociology at Washington State’s The Evergreen State College and Adjunct Faculty member at Antioch University Seattle Teacher Education Program.

• ContentsPreface Introduction: Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice Mary Stone Hanley Section I: Models of the Arts as Social Justice Section Introduction1 Storytelling for Social Justice: Creating Arts-Based Counter-Stories to Resist Racism2 Theater as Ritual for Healing and Social Change 3 Scratching the Imagination: Siglo XXIII and the AHA-AJA Museum for Planetary and Global Citizenship 4 Documentary Theatre in Education: Empathy Building as a Tool for Social Change 5 What the Music Said: Hip Hop as a Transformative Educational Tool 6 The Arts and Juvenile Justice Education: Unlocking the Light through Youth Arts and Teacher Development 7 Pushing Against the Water: Artists and Sense of Place Museum Residency Program in New Orleans8 Picturing Equity in City Schools: Using Photography to See What Justice Means to Urban High School Students 9 Editing Lives: The Justice of Recognition through Documentary Film Production10 Tackling Homophobia and Heterosexual Privilege in the Media Arts Classroom: A Teacher’s Account 11 Exploring Arts-Based Inquiry for Social Justice in Graduate Education Section IISection Introduction12 Narrowing in on the Answers: Dissecting Social Justice Art Education13 From the Plantation to the Margin: Artful Teaching and the Sociological Imagination14 The Beauty Parlour Within Me 15 African American Children, Arts of Africa and the Diaspora, and the Right to Freedom of Thought 16 Closure: A Critical Look at the Foreclosure Crisis in Words and Images 17 The Studio: an Environment for the Development of Social Justice in Teaching and Learning 18 Embody the Dance, Embrace the Body Closing Gilda SheppardAbout the Authors

"The visual arts, theater, music, photography, dance, and film are all presented by the contributors, who are professionals presenting the aesthetic, conceptual, and practical traditions of social realities. It is vitally important for arts teachers to read the many articles contained here and to realize the importance of their various constituencies. Summing up: Recommended." - G.A. Clark, emeritus, IndianaUniversity, in CHOICE, January 2014