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INF Seminar Series: How the Arts Can Save Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Instruction
Details
University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Person Encouraged for UCI Students, Faculty, Researchers, and Staff On Zoom for the Public (Use Meeting ID 998 7280 7323)
Title: "How the Arts Can Save Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Instruction"
Abstract:
The age of accountability in education is losing its momentum. Education is in a time of profound change. We are increasingly aware of how learning outside of school provides life-giving opportunities for our most vulnerable kids. The arts—dance, theater, music, the visual arts, and the digital and design arts—offer us a way to reimagine what good learning and teaching are and how to design learning environments that work for all kids. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools and exposed ever-present in-equities in education. And though it has been heart-wrenching for teachers, students, and families, the disruption has also offered us the opportunity to fundamentally rethink what education can be. Gloria Ladson-Billings has called for a "hard reset" on education and for us to fundamentally recon-sider the kind of human beings we want to produce. In this talk, I will describe how the arts can save education by providing new models for learning that embrace the social, cultural, and historical assets that kids bring to the classroom. I will also share how an arts-based approach to teaching focuses on risk-taking as the most important aspect of a successful classroom. I offer a framework that leverages how arts practitioners do their work to design learning experiences for all subject areas. Throughout, I use my own arts organization, Whoopensocker, as a model for how to reframe learning as acts of metacognitive representation, identity development, and collaboration—and lots and lots of joy.
Bio:
E. Halverson is a Professor in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores how people learn in and through the arts, which one can read about in her forthcoming book, How the Arts Can Save Education.
Where
Donald Bren Hall 6011
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, United States