Archive for January, 2009

IDEA Talk ’09 Lauren Stevenson: “Social Change, Mobilization, and the Performing Arts”

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Lauren Stevenson IDEA Talk

In her talk “Social Change, Mobilization, and the Performing Arts” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Ms. Stevenson shares her current ethnographic study of the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Group in Oakland, California, that explores the relationally transformative capacities of a collaborative arts group.

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IDEA Talk ’09 Arnold Aprill: “New Standards for a New Century”

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Arnie Aprill IDEA Talk 09

In his talk “New Standards for a New Century: Contemporary Arts Education and Contemporary Teaching and Learning” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Mr. Aprill talks about teaching and learning organized around Big Ideas and contemporary concepts in anticipation of future demands on education.

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IDEA Talk ’09 Nick Rabkin: “An Arts Education Augury”

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Nick Rabkin IDEA Talk

In his talk “An arts education augury: Thoughts on new research and the state of the field” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Mr. Rabkin analyzes the common threads in the current moment of evolution within arts education, using Steve Seidel’s speech on the “Quality of Quality” and a recent blog-a-thon on artsjournal.com as exemplars.

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IDEA Talk ’09 Kurt Wootton: “A Pedagogy of Infinity”

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

In his talk “A Pedagogy of Infinity: Best Practices in Language, Literacy, and Arts Teaching across the Americas” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Mr. Wootton describes the characteristics of extraordinary arts, language, and literacy practices across international education settings. To hear the audio of this talk click here. To download the audio of this talk, right click and Save Link As here. To watch the video of this talk click here. To download the video of this talk, right click and Save Link As here.

IDEA Talk ’09 Amanda Lichtenstein: “Manifesto! Teaching is Believing”

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Amanda Lichtenstein IDEA Talk

In her talk “Manifesto! Teaching is Believing” given at the 2nd Annual International Education Summit, Ms. Lichtenstein describes curricular manifestos as transformative outlines for curating personal interior space in public space. Ms. Lichtenstein shares her own manifesto and several artistic projects that realize various dimensions of this philosophy.

To explore websites mentioned in this talk, visit the blog for Personal Manifestos/Public Contraditions @ the MCA or the Census of the Senses|Un Mundo website.

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