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Awakening Presence in Art Teacher Training
- Visual Arts Research
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, Issue 80, Summer 2015
- pp. 84-95
- Article
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This article argues that a commitment to the social justice potential of art education forces us to reconsider the constructed dialectic of “school” and “community.” When emerging art educators are immersed in community encounters, they become reflexive teachers and learners, and they can awaken a relational, embodied self-understanding that they can deploy regardless of their teaching site.