Engaging Public Space: Art Education Pedagogies for Social Justice

Autor/in	Duncum, Paul
Titel	Engaging Public Space: Art Education Pedagogies for Social Justice
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 44 (2011) 3, S.348-363 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Intellectual Freedom; Art Education; Urban Environment; Civil Rights; Art Teachers; Role of Education; Teaching Methods; Activism; Educational Technology; Democratic Values; Democracy; Social Influences; Power Structure; Social Change; Community + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Akademische Freiheit; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Stadtökologie; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Art teacher; Kunsterzieher; Kunsterzieherin; Bildungsauftrag; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Unterrichtsmedien; Demokratie; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	Considering social justice to be founded on human rights, which, in turn, are grounded in freedom of thought, expression, and assembly, this essay reviews efforts by art educators to engage with public space as a form of social justice pedagogy. Public space, whether actual or virtual, is understood to be inherently devoted to contestation in the pursuit and protection of human rights. However, today we face a serious contraction of public space. Due to the relentless logic of consumer markets and the visceral fear of physical attack, some have asserted that public space is now dead. In this article, the author points to pedagogies employed to take back physical public space, identified on a continuum that include learning about, learning from, acting within, and acting upon public space. These pedagogies involve: critiquing private, corporate space; engaging in public community and environmental art; and engaging in activist and protest art, including a critique of the public space itself. Additionally, different positions are identified, including descriptive, prescriptive, and proscriptive positions, as well as alternative and oppositional positions. The author then explores the possibilities for taking hold of virtual space and concludes by conceptualizing each of these strategies in terms of residual, dominant, and emergent culture, as well as providing consideration of challenges and possibilities for further activity. (Contains 3 figures and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10