Teaching Meaning in Art Making Chapter 2- This chapter discussed artists work from big ideas, but to motivate and sustain their interests and to make their ideas worth pursuing, they find personal connections to them. And how student artists also need personal connections to big ideas. The main points of this chapter were personalizing big ideas, Donald Lipski’s fascination with objects, taking Lipski’s ideas and applying it to your art room, Sandy Skoglund exploring personal history and applying her techniques into the art room, Andy Goldsworthy connecting with nature and applying his techniques in the art classroom, and finally Fred Wilson questioning museum practices and applying his techniques in the art room.
Desai (2010): The Challenge of New Colorblind Racism in Art Education- This article talks about racial inequalities and how to integrate these inequalities and how to shape anti-bias into the art classroom. The main points of this article were racial inequality in the age of Obama, seeing colorblindness, visual culture and colorblind racism, and confronting the color line as a way to build culture.
Hyland (2010)” Being a Good Teacher of Black Students? White Teachers and Unintentional Racism- This article is about the roles adopted by four White teachers( Pam, Sylvia, Carmen, and Maizie) before and after they participated in a seminar on teaching antiracism with colleagues at the Woodson Elementary School, which was the only African-American school located in a small Midwestern city in America. Each teacher is considered a ‘good teacher’ and teaching Black students. Hyland explored the roles and related practices of the four teachers and the disconnect between what researchers have identified as good practices for teaching students of color.
