Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy

Barbara Beyerbach, Ph.D., is a professor at SUNY at Oswego. She also serves as a co-director of Project SMART, a teacher professional development program aimed at creating urban/rural partnerships in K–16. Beyerbach is co-editor (with R. Deborah Davis) of “How Do We Know They Know?”: A Conversation About Pre-Service Teachers Learning About Culture and Social Justice (2009). R. Deborah Davis, Ph.D., is a professor emerita at SUNY at Oswego and a co-director of the Teacher Opportunity Grant. Davis is the author of Black Students’ Perceptions: Persistence to Graduation in an American University (2007). Tania Ramalho, Ph.D., a Brazilian American, is professor at SUNY at Oswego. She teaches critical literacy and pedagogy in the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She serves as a board member of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, associated with the University of London’s Institute of Education and the London Development Center.

“This book covers a lot of ground in showing the many powerful ways art can inspire social justice activism. From classrooms to communities, from the local to the global, the authors demonstrate how art can engage the emotions, promote critical thinking, and motivate the courage to act in the face of injustice. The book provides a range of examples of emerging/transforming stories of social justice pedagogy through activist art. An excellent resource for schools and communities seeking ways to draw upon art to energize action!”—Lee Anne Bell, Professor Emerita, Barnard College

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Cynthia Clabough: Note on the Cover Art: "The Night the Artist Became Activist" – Barbara Beyerbach: Introduction – Barbara Beyerbach: Social Justice Education Through the Arts – Tania Ramalho and Leah Russell – Learning About 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 K. 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 – Arnon A.m. de Andrade/Tania Ramalho (Translator): Complexity, Communication, Education, and the Making of Art – Ritu Radhakrishnan: It Starts With an Idea: Integrating Arts into the Classroom – Anneke McEvoy/Peter Cardone/Elias Williams: Sharing Our True Identity: Taking Environmental Portraits to Subvert Existing Community Narratives – Cynthia Clabough/Todd Behrendt/Elizabeth Brownell/Christi Harrington/Sharon Kane/Lacey McKinney/Kelly Roe: A Collective Endeavor—The Creatively Exploring Place, Self, and Collective Identity Project – Barbara Beyerbach/Tania Ramalho: Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy – About the Authors.