Social Justice and the Arts

Lee Anne Bell is Professor and Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. Her most recent book is Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching (Routledge, 2010) and she is co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2007). She recently produced a documentary film about integration in Mississippi that powerfully exposes, through the recollections of those who lived through this historic period, the individual and institutional practices and impacts of racism in education (2013). Dipti Desai is an Associate Professor and Director of the graduate program in art education at New York University, USA. As a scholar and artist-educator she is committed to addressing the formative role of visual representation and its politics in order to affect social change. She has published widely in the area of critical multiculturalism/ critical race theory in art education, contemporary art as a pedagogical site, and critical pedagogy. Her co-authored book History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education received an Honorable mention for the Curriculum Practice Category by Division B of the American Education and Research Association.　  

1. Imagining Otherwise: Connecting the Arts and Social Justice to Envision and Act for Change Lee Anne Bell and Dipti Desai 2. Multimodal Literacies, Pedagogy, and the Construction of Identity-Based Social Movements: The Case of Espina y Jugo in Mexico Erika Mein 3. Indigenous Digital Storytelling in Video: Witnessing with Alma Desjarlais Judy M. Iseke 4. Facing and Transforming Hauntings of Race Through the Arts Rosemarie A. Roberts 5. Engaging Public Space: Art Education Pedagogies for Social Justice Paul Duncum 6. Where is the Action? Three Lenses to Analyze Social Justice Art Education Marit Dewhurst 7. All the School’s A Stage: Critical Performative Pedagogy in Urban Teacher Education Ruth Harman and Greg McClure 8. Enacting Democracy: Using Forum Theatre to Confront Bullying Karen M. Gourd and Tina Y. Gourd 9. You Better Recognize!: The Arts as Social Justice for African American Students Mary Stone Hanley