Celebrating pluralism
Subtitle: art, education, and cultural diversity
By: F. Graeme Chalmers.
Series: Occasional paper ;; 5; Occasional paper (Getty Center for Education in the Arts) ;; 5.
Publisher: Getty Center for Education in the Arts
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States; Multicultural education -- United States; Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Canada; Multicultural education -- Canada
Description: "Educational trends will change and research agendas will shift, but art teachers in public institutions will still need to educate all students for multicultural purposes," argues Chalmers in this fifth volume in the Occasional Papers series. Chalmers describes how art education programspromote cross-cultural understanding, recognize racial and cultural diversity, enhance self-esteem in students' cultural heritage, and address issues of ethnocentrism, stereotyping, discrimination, and racism. After providing the context for multicultural art education, Chalmers examines theimplications for art education of the broad themes found in art across cultures. Using discipline-based art education as a framework, he suggests ways to design and implement a curriculum for multicultural art education that will help students find a place for art in their lives. Art educators willfind Celebrating Pluralism invaluable in negotiating the approach to multicultural art education that makes the most sense to their students and their communities.