Charles R. Garoian is Professor of Art Education and Director of the School of Visual Arts at The Pennsylvania State University.

• Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Performance Art: Repositioning the Body in Postmodern Art Education 3. The Emancipatory Pedagogy of Performance Art 4. Goat Island: Spectacle as Performance Art Pedagogy 5. Robbie McCauley's Talk-About Pedagogy 6. Understanding Performance Art as Curriculum Text: The Community-based Pedagogy of Suzanne Lacy 7. Constructing Identity: An Autobiographical Case Study of Performance Art 8. Constructing a Performance Art Pedagogy Bibliography Index

"Garoian is an innovative artist, teacher, and scholar. He challenges the reader to examine the complexity of culture and identity formation through an art of politics. The emphasis on personal context, civic responsibility, and participatory democracy is grounded in his own past art performances that parallel reform efforts in the past five years in general education. Well written and thoroughly researched, this is an insightful investigation into the practice of teaching toward life-long learning." — Don H. Krug, The Ohio State University"Garoian brings together the practices and ideas of some of the most significant performance artists, especially as they illuminate the theory of performance and the potential for performance to enrich and transform the educational process." — Glenn Harper, editor of Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance