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- Creator:
- Knotts, Gregory D.
- Description:
- This study describes research done with elementary pre-service teachers and the Education Outreach Project of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA). The study summarizes research on the impact this Outreach Project had on these teacher candidates' intersecting views of gender and sexuality. The presentation will share fmdings from this case study and the Project's implementation in a large, comprehensive university teacher education program. It investigates how pre-service teachers bring to school their constructed meanings of gender and sexuality, and how the implementation of the Project changed pre-service teachers' views of misogyny and homophobia. This study continues a dialogue about how to address issues of gender and sexuality in the classroom and how elementary school teachers might better be able to approach these topics in standards-driven appropriate ways.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Burstein, Joyce H. and Knotts, Gregory D.
- Description:
- This article discusses the importance of using the arts as an access strategy to help students learn social studies. Although the study and use of the arts in elementary school curriculum has been shown to increase academic achievement overall (Brouillette, 2010; Darby & Catterall, 1994; Eisner, 1999, 2000; Holzer, 2009), the arts in general have all - but disappeared from the elementary school curriculum. Short of some cutting and pasting and working with construction paper, a disciplined, purposeful use of the visual and performing arts, from a standards-based perspective, is illusive at best to most elementary school teachers. Yolk (1998) has demonstrated the multicultural links made by an intentional arts education. Eisner (2000) and others (Damm, 2006; Grallert, 2009; Holzer, 2009; Raymond & Broderick, 2007) continue to demonstrate the need for a comprehensive arts education, but teachers face the practical reality of accountability and assessment in curriculum other than the arts, suggesting that they ignore and 'leave behind' the arts altogether.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge