Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators (Routledge Research in Arts Education)

Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm collects and explores the professional and pedagogical narratives of Asian art educators and researchers in North America. Few studies published since the substantial immigration of Asian art educators to the United States in the 1990s have addressed their professional identities in higher education, K-12, and museum contexts. By foregrounding narratives from Asian American arts educators within these settings, this edited volume enacts a critical shift from Western, Eurocentric perspectives to the unique contributions of Asian American practitioners.

Enhanced by the application of the AsianCrit framework and theories of intersectionality, positionality, decolonization, and allyship, these original contributor counternarratives focus on professional and pedagogical discourses and practices that support Asian American identity development and practice. A significant contribution to the field of art education, this book highlights the voices and experiences of Asian art educators and serves as an ideal scholarly resource for exploring their identity formation, construction, and development of a historically underrepresented minoritized group in North America.

Ryan Shin is Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arizona, United States. His research interests include Asian popular and visual culture, Asian critical theory and pedagogy, decolonization in art education, global civic engagement, and new digital media and visual culture.

Maria Lim is Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States. Her research interests include art teacher preparation through global perspectives, cultural appropriation and culturally responsive education, social justice and anti-racial discrimination pedagogy, and critical Asian theory and pedagogical decolonization.

Oksun Lee is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art Education in the Department of Art at the University of Central Oklahoma, United States. Her research interests include Asian art education faculty identity, Asian critical pedagogy, cross-cultural education, and preservice art teacher education.

Sandrine Han is Independent scholar and Former Associate Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests are in the fields of art education, visual culture, cultural studies, technology, semiotics, and visual communication.