Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy

Barbara Beyerbach is a professor at the State University of New York at Oswego in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She is co-editor (with R. Deborah Davis) of «How Do We Know They Know?» A Conversation About Pre-Service Teachers Learning About Culture & Social Justice (Peter Lang, 2009).R. Deborah Davis is a tenured associate professor at the State University of New York at Oswego in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. Davis is also education subdivision editor of the Black Studies and Critical Thinking series at Peter Lang Publishing.

• Contents: Barbara Beyerbach: Introduction – Barbara Beyerbach: Social Justice Education Through the Arts – Tania Ramalho/Leah Russell: Learningabout the Farmworkers and the Landless Rural Workers Movements Through the Arts – Leah Russell: Art and Change in the AfroReggae Cultural Group – Jacquelyn S. Kibbey: Media Literacy and Social Justice in a Visual World – Mary Harrell: Enlivening the Curriculum Through Imagination – Dennis Parsons: Photography and Social Justice: Preservice Teachers and the Ocularized, Urban Other – Jane Winslow: Creating Student Activists Through Community Participatory Documentaries – Jennifer Kagan/Chris Capella: Art Class at the Onondaga Nation School: A Practice of the Good Mind – Lisa Roberts Seppi: Indigenous Activism: Art, Identity, and the Politics of the Quincentenary – Carrie Nordlund/Peg Speirs/Marilyn Stewart/Judy Chicago: Activist Art and Pedagogy: The Dinner Party Curriculum Project – Lisa Langlois: Acting Up In and Out of Class: Student Social Justice Activism in the Tertiary General Education, Fine Arts, and Performing Arts Curriculum – Patricia E. Clark/Ulises A. Mejias/Peter Cavana/Daniel Herson/Sharon M. Strong: Interactive Social Media and the Art of Telling Stories: Strategies for Social Justice Through Osw3go.net 2010: Racism on Campus – Barbara Stout: In the Grey: Finding Beauty Without Labels – Suzanne Bellamy: The Art of Growing Food – Barbara Beyerbach/Tania Ramalho: Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy.