Using Art Critically - Volume 3

Rather than seeing art as a curricular extra, or a fun break from the curriculum, art in the Using Art Critically series is used, like language, as a tool and toy for learning, rethinking, and outgrowing oneself. The authors' intent is to position art as a seamless, joyful, and integral part of the educative process that creates space for exploring important social issues, events, and injustices. In so doing working with art from a critical perspective becomes an opportunity to understand curriculum as one way to explore opportunities for change. This book includes strategies that can be used in elementary and secondary school, and university settings.

Peggy Albers, Vivian Vasquez, and Jerome C. Harste collectively have over 90 years of experience working with students from preschool to graduate school, as public school teachers, and as university professors. They share a passion for framing their teaching, regardless of the age of their students, from a critical literacy perspective, and they share a passion for making and creating as part of their teaching and learning, and as part of their lives. The Using Art Critically series combines these two passions.