In the United States, enrollment in teacher education programs has dropped and arts education programs have faced existential threats due to budget cuts and curriculum constraints at all educational levels. This is despite evidence that arts education increases student attendance achievement. Using the presenters’ teaching context at an international, diverse urban secondary school serving Multilingual Language Learners, this presentation will explore how an arts integration course assists secondary students in transitioning to university while experiencing an authentic journey of self-discovery and meaning-making. The presentation will describe a one semester course during which students engage first as arts integration students and then as creators and teachers of arts integration workshops. In Maxine Greene’s work The Artistice-Aesthetic Curriculum she writes, “works of art (wherever they come from) address themselves to human freedom — meaning the capacity to choose and (we would hope) the power to act in a changing world.” (Greene, 2018, p. 185). This presentation describes how secondary students engage in the university Arts in Education course allowing them to, as Greene writes, “address themselves to human freedom” in their own artistic expressions, and then as facilitators of arts integration workshops for younger students, they take action “in a changing world” by shaping the education with which their peers engage. This presentation will highlight (1) The course’s goal to teach ways of integrating the arts into planning academic and multicultural curricula (2) How inquiry-based education focusing on authentic purpose and audiences builds student agency.

Authors:
Angela Cornelius, City University of New York, United States
Megan Minturn, Brooklyn International High School, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Angela Cornelius is currently an Associate Professor of Education at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City, United States.

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