The Routledge companion to decolonizing art, craft, and visual culture education

Abstract

"This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines. Visual and traditional essays in this book combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. Across three sections (creative shorts, enacted encounters, and ruminative research), a diverse group of authors address themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital realm. Chapters highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers grapple with decolonial methods, theories, and strategies-in research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice. Each chapter includes discursive questions and resources for further engagement with the topics at hand. The book is targeted towards scholars and practitioners of art education, studio art, and art history, K-12 art teachers, as well as artist educators and teaching artists in museums and communities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Critical Reflections on Teaching as a Decolonial Practice / Maria Leake -- Cultural Networking, Storytelling and Zoom during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Conversations with African-Caribbeans on using a Decolonized Digital Arts-based Educational Platform / Judith Bruce-Golding & Sue Brown -- Raranga and Tikanga Pā Harakeke-An Indigenous Model of Socially Engaged Art and Education / Leon Tan & Tanya White.