Helping Kids Turn Out Queer: Queer Theory in Art Education
10 Aug 2017-Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education (Routledge)-Vol. 58, Iss: 3, pp 195-205
TL;DR: The authors explore the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help children turn out to be queers, and explore the ways in which art education researchers address queerness and how those forms of address impact the relations that are possible within the educational dynamic.
Abstract: This article explores the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and I playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help kids turn out queer. Moving away from both victim narratives of queer subjects and the attention on gay artists, who often are the focus of scholarship in art education, I contemplate the ways in which art education researchers address queerness and how those forms of address impact the relations that are (im)possible within the educational dynamic. I ask, “In what ways has queer been addressed in art education research, and how can other scholars push forward with such work to continue queer projects?” I observe a need to challenge fears around queer topics and contemplate how queerness, embedded in theory and practice, disputes and disrupts art education research.
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TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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Abstract: This Article recounts the first history of sex in public accommodations law—a history essential to debates that rage today over gender and sexuality in public. Just fifty years ago, not only LGBTQ people but also cisgender women were the subject of discrimination in public. Restaurants and bars displayed “men-only” signs. Women held secondary status in civic organizations, such as Rotary and Jaycees, and were excluded altogether from many professional bodies, such as press clubs. Sports—from the Little League to the golf club—kept girls and women from achieving athletic excellence. Financial institutions subsumed married women’s identities within those of their husbands. Over the course of the 1970s, the feminist movement protested and litigated against sex discrimination in public accommodations. They secured state laws opening up commerce and leisure for “full and equal enjoyment” by both sexes. When “sex” was added to state public accommodations laws, feminists, their opponents, and government actors understood sex equality in public to signify more than equal access to public spaces. It also implicated freedom from the regulation of sexuality and gender performance and held the potential to transform institutions central to dominant masculinity, like baseball fields and bathrooms. This history informs the interpretation of public accommodations laws in controversies from same-sex couples’ wedding cakes to transgender people’s restroom access.
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TL;DR: Gilbert et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss how adults and at-large cultural norms informs school environments and in turn regulates and limits the metaphysical "child" and childhood sexuality, and how this productive, xenophobic epistemology harms all people (e.g., students, parents, teachers, administrator, the public) who are entrenched within and place value into this narrow, discriminatory schooling cultural climate.
Abstract: Review of Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education by Jen Gilbert, University of Minnesota Press, paperback, 2014, 120pp., $20.00Discovering the new work by Jen Gilbert was particularly valuable, applicable, and timely for me as feminist/queer education researcher. Situating firmly in the philosophical, ontological, and epistemological foundations of education, Gilbert provides significant contributions to queer and sexuality scholarship. I found Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education effectively challenging as it relates to the socially constructed boundaries and norms of education. This work is a robust commitment to the messiness, complications, and contradictions that circulate within knowledge production of school aged children.Gilbert begins the text by situating her positionalities as a queer educator who is emotionally invested in the subject of school as a social justice advocate/activist. Additionally, she provides the theoretical lens to which she examines schooling as a productive force. Queer/after-queer theory intersects with psychoanalysis enabling Gilbert to discursively articulate the ways sexuality in always already part of schooling. She demonstrates how sexuality is operationalized to manage cultural norms and reminds educators to think with theory towards inventing space for "our unintelligible selves" and unleashing possibilities (pg. xxiv).The book has five topical chapters that are all entangled but have specific analytic goals. The first chapter is crucial as it frames and serves as a methodological tool for the following chapters. The following chapters expound on the assertions that are contextualized in chapter one. Additionally, Gilbert strikes a strong balance between theoretical inquiry and applied examples. In doing so, she breathes life into the complexities of sexuality in schooling while creating accessible, material illustrations of educational theories in practice.In the first chapter, Gilbert effectively delineates how adults and at-large cultural norms informs school environments and in turn regulates and limits the metaphysical "child" and childhood sexuality. By eliminating queer knowledge, becomings, and possibilities from educational arenas, schools imagine that they successfully have saved our future through preserving hope that exists within the rhetorical narrative of the innocent, pure, child; yet, Gilbert notes how quite the opposite occurs. She articulates how this productive, xenophobic epistemology harms all people (e.g. students, parents, teachers, administrator, the public) who are entrenched within and place value into this narrow, discriminatory schooling cultural climate.In the later chapters, she continues to skillfully demystify sex and sexuality of children, unveils the flawed nature of liberal sex and sexuality education, and challenges and encourages schools to be hospitable for open discussions about sexuality, sex, desire, and pleasure. Gilbert is able to demonstrate how heteronormative sexuality is entrenched in schools, the deliberate actions that schools take to mute and/or curb non-normative and unimaginable sexual possibilities, and the political becomings of "the child" that adults exploit for their own particular agenda. …
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Abstract: Concern regarding the static nature of school art curricula has caused some higher educators to question what happens when graduates of art education programs transition from being preservice teachers associated with the university to in-service teachers working in schools. Why is it that graduates do not seem to be fulfilling their roles as the change-makers many hope they will be? In this article, I offer insights gleaned through work with new, in-service art teachers in a qualitative research study to suggest that school art practices as implemented by beginning art teachers are shaped in part by forces of accountability and compliance that are pervasive in current school contexts. My analysis attempts to shift the focus of concern from the individual actions of beginning art teachers to the regulatory nature of the audit culture in public schools and its productive effects with regard to school art.
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...…in Art Education / Volume 59, No. 2 91 ● digital culture and making (Knochel & Patton, 2015; Sweeny, 2010) ● queer theory (e.g. Bey & Washington, 2013; Cosier & Sanders, 2007; Greteman, 2017; Wolfgang & Rhoades, 2017) ● community and place (e.g., Gradle, 2008; Hutzel, 2007; Lawton, 2014)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the incorporation of the alfabeto, the tipografia and the caligrafia to the daily space of art education is discussed, and minimum criteria are established to recover the tradition of calligraphy teachers and to use this resource to educate in diversity.
Abstract: El presente articulo plantea la incorporacion del alfabeto, las tipografias y las caligrafias al espacio cotidiano de la educacion en artes visuales. El avance progresivo de la manipulacion de teclados en el aprendizaje y los usos de la escritura, asi como la actualizacion de contenidos en los talleres de artes, permiten elaborar un nuevo discurso, facilitando el tratamiento de las letras como signos graficos, ademas de conquistar un escenario de innovacion para el lettering y la ensenanza del diseno. Consideramos de gran relevancia el papel que pueden adquirir las imagenes de los textos en la formacion del profesorado de Educacion Primaria. Mas alla del habitual manejo de la tipografia por parte de disenadores profesionales, aqui se reivindica el aprovechamiento educativo de la escritura en tanto que imagenes, a todos los niveles y desde cualquier perspectiva. Las tecnologias digitales generan asimismo un impresionante paisaje de posibilidades graficas. Se establecen unos minimos criterios de recuperacion de la tradicion de los maestros caligrafos y del potencial creativo de las caligrafias personales, asi como el uso de este recurso didactico para educar en diversidad. This paper proposes the incorporation of the Alphabet, Typography and Calligraphy to the daily space of Art Education. The progressive advancement of the keyboards’ manipulation in the learning and uses of writing, as well as the update of contents in the workshops of arts, allow to elaborate a new territory for the treatment of letters like graphic signs, conquering a new one stage for Lettering and Design Education. We consider important the role that images of texts can acquire in the training teachers for Primary School. Beyond the usual use of typography by professional designers, the educational use of writing as images, at all levels and from any perspective, is claimed here. Digital technologies generate an impressive landscape of graphic possibilities. Minimum criteria are established to recover the tradition of calligraphy teachers and the creative potential of personal calligraphy, as well as the use of this resource to educate in diversity.
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