Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Creative Arts for Teachers and Teacher Educators

✍ Scribed by Amanda Nicole Gulla, Molly Hamilton Sherman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Series: Creativity, Education and the Arts
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum. Guided by Maxine Greene’s philosophy of Aesthetic Education, the authors discuss the social justice implications of marginalized students having access to the arts and opportunities to find their voices through creative expression. They aim to demystify the process of inquiry-based learning through the arts for teachers and teacher educators by offering examples of lessons taught in high school classrooms and graduate level teaching methods courses. Examples of student writing and art work show how creative interactions with the arts can help learners of all ages deepen their skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction and Looking Both Ways: How (and Why) a High School English Teacher and an English Education Professor Formed a Partnership That Informed Their Practices
Introduction
A Word About Word Clouds
Creating an Immersive Pedagogy for Students and Teacher Candidates
Amanda Gulla: Live Your Life Like an Artist
Molly Sherman: Placed in Worlds of Which I Had Never Conceived
Why Voice Matters
Art as a Portal to Voice
Works Cited
2 Teaching to Meet the Moment
Teaching and Learning in the Upside Down—Amanda Gulla
Inside/Outside
What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Quarantine?
Somehowly—Molly Sherman
Works Cited
3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Texts: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Ekphrastic Poetry
Creative Responses to Texts
The World Goes on in Spite of Everything
Daedalus Is Held to Account for Building the Labyrinth and Other Crimes
Storytelling and the Years After
Works Cited
4 Imagining the World as If It Could Be Otherwise: Preparing Students for Solving Problems and Seeing Possibilities (Writing Poetry as Evidence-Based Argument)
Found Poetry in Romare Bearden’s Black Odyssey
In the Land of Not Make Believe
We Hold On
Works Cited
5 Analyzing and Synthesizing Our Stories: Exploring Identity Through Art and Poetry
Works Cited
6 Art as Exploration: Jacob Lawrence and the Great Migration
Works Cited
7 Making Claims and Making Change: Creative Responses to the 1619 Project
Antiracism Teaching: The 1619 Project
Reflection
Works Cited
8 Point of View: Stepping Inside the Story
Singing America and the Underground Railroad (Amanda Gulla)
The Trilogy of Singing America Poems
I Too, Am the American Dream
Below 14th Street
I, Too Sang America
The Underground Railroad
Assignment Framing
Literary Analysis Through Performance: Molly Sherman
Works Cited
9 Teaching as Transaction: Building Community Through Shared Inquiry
Works Cited
10 This Is Not for Me: In Which We Discuss Some Challenges and Obstacles That May Impede the Development of an Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Arts Practice, and What Might Be Done About Them
Works Cited
Appendix
Resource Guide
Visual Art and Artists
Index