When we were reading about multiculturalism in chapter 3, one quote from the reading read as "The cultural identity of any person, including any artist, may be made up of many national and ethnic roots and this interculturalism should be included in students’ understanding of visual culture (Ballengee-Morris & Stuhr, 2001)" (Boughton, Freedman pg 6).
So, when we were role-playing as different types of parents and different families, it caused us as a class to adopt and play as if we were from these different backgrounds. For example, Joel’s character came from a place of a free-spirited nature while Nicole’s character was focused on making sure that her children had work for them to do at home as to keep them busy. In my case, Andrea and I were role-playing as a lesbian couple, so for us our angle was to make sure that LGBT+ and female representation or culture was an important part of our culture that we wanted to make sure was included. When sitting through this role play, I noticed that because all of our roles had specific personality traits and came from different perspectives, it affected how they approached asking certain questions and what their concerns were. While Andrea and I were concerned about diverse representation, others cared about how much money they could possibly leverage, or how involved they can get with the students by suggesting their own lesson plans and Pinterest ideas. As art educators, we will be handling children from homes of all different backgrounds other than the traditional 50s ‘nuclear family’. Whether it be single parents to interracial couples, having that be represented, normalized and worthy to study is important to students to validate themselves as well as have personal connection to what they are learning. Because a visual culture approach includes other new media and popular arts, making sure that the curriculum is diverse makes sure that students from different backgrounds and identities feel important and heard. For my picture attachment, I chose to put a screencap of the series finale to a children’s show Legend of Korra. The entire Avatar universe that this show is in to me is a great representation of multiculturalism within visual culture not only do to the different cultural inspirations that the writers took from all over the world- South Asia, India, Polynesia but also within their series finale they decided to make two female characters into a romantic relationship which was revolutionary during the time. Boughton, D., & Freedman, K. Introduction to Art Education. Elementary Art Education: A Practical Approach to Teaching Visual Culture. New York, NY: McGraw Hill
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DescriptionPosted here are my reflections from class as well as readings in the textbook, Elementary Art Education: A Practical Approach to Teaching Visual Culture written by Freedman and Boughton.
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