Pedagogy

pedagogy
pedj/
noun: pedagogy; plural noun: pedagogies
the method and practice of teaching, especially
as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pedagogy

SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM IS A PHILOSOPHY THAT EMPHASIZES THE ADDRESSING

OF SOCIAL QUESTIONS AND A QUEST TO CREATE A BETTER SOCIETY AND WORLDWIDE
DEMOCRACY. RECONSTRUCTIONIST EDUCATORS FOCUS ON A CURRICULUM THAT
HIGHLIGHTS SOCIAL REFORM AS THE AIM OF EDUCATION.
HTTP://OREGONSTATE.EDU/INSTRUCTION/ED416/PP3.HTML
 Dr. Gaye L. Green
PREVIOUSLY AN ELEMENTARY ART SPECIALIST AND TEACHER
NOW A PROFESSOR OF ART AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
BA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY; MA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; PHD, PENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY
B.A. IN BOTH ART AND PSYCHOLOGY, A PH.D. IN ART EDUCATION
SHE HAS TAUGHT ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN TO COLLEGE
BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
VIRTUALLY NO ONLINE PRESENCE (PICTURES, VIDEOS)
 Feminist
Practices
Gaye Green makes a case for the inclusion of
such socially progressive, reconstructive,
feminist, and ultimately any other anti-
discriminatory Pedagogy for Art Education. She
refers to this practice as Art Making as Critical
Inquiry
Confronts societal values and beliefs
Encourages critical thinking
socially responsive content Identify and define intricate problems
stimulates ethical debate that
requires nonalgorithimic [sic] thinking Analyze available data
and problem solving, thereby
Identify assumptions
augmenting conventional curricula
with material that champions human Employ findings via art making
rights and confronts hegemonic
structures Engineer new forms of evaluation
 Engagement in Art as Social Practice

Art in the classroom is a lot like art in social practice. She believes in sociocultural transformation
through the arts and is involved in performance art. Her attitude towards social practice is best
exemplified through a few select quotes:

The call for Socially responsive art making permeates contemporary art and educational, critical,
historical, and philosophical theory

Consider what would transpire if the goal of production were to

effectively engage audiences in dialogue that demystified artistic processes,
incorporates audience input, and seeks cultural transformation.

Interacting with the community with works that both edify and engage, community-based
education focuses on social issues such as gender, class, race, and sexual orientation. Supplanting
modernist-inspired pedagogy that trained artists for the pursuit of personal authorship, rethinking
studio curricula to include socially relevant content. encourages the merger between art and life,
contemporary theory and pedagogy, and, more specifically, between artist and audience.
New Genre Public Education. Gaye Green. Art Journal, Spring (1999) v58 i1 p.80 (4).
Additional Reading for Dr. Green

Imagery as Ethical Inquiry published in the

November 2000 issue of the journal Art
Education
The Return of the Body: Performance Art and
Art Education (January 1999)
Reading Violent Images (March of 2004 )
In Their Own Words (July 2006)
Former Students and STEAM

In this project, students Ella Lamont,

Jayla Mills, Bonnie Smerdon and
Kimberly Williams addressed issues
of oceanic pollution by creating
jellyfish out of plastic materials.

http://www.westernfrontonline.com/2016/05/1
7/steam-adds-art-into-the-mix-of-stem/
These are her cats, Mimi and Yoshi, as
featured on her Facebook
Recent Artwork