Creative License: Education, Social Justice and the Arts
From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students with opportunities to engage more deeply with their learning process(es), expose injustice, and work towards a more fair and equitable world. The summer 2013 issue of Our Schools /Our Selves explores the relationship between education, social justice and the arts.
Attachments
[Preview] Summer 2013: Table of Contents & Editorial
[Preview] Blood is Blood: An Arab-Jew collaboration
[Preview] Radicalizing Dance: Confessions of an “artivist”
About the author
Erika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began her career at the CCPA in 1997 as director of the Education Project. Originally established to monitor corporate intrusion in public education, the project broadened its focus to include standardized testing, social justice and anti-racism education in schools, educational equity, school finance, child care and early childhood education, tuition and user fees, technology, surveillance and privacy, the arts, and community-based education. In 2000 she also became editor of Our Schools/Our Selves, the popular education journal founded in 1988. It provides commentary and analysis on a wide variety of education-related topics. Erika has a BA in History from McGill University and an MA in English (critical literary analysis) from the University of Guelph. Prior to coming to the CCPA, she worked in Washington DC researching the corporatization of childhood, and was one of the founders of UNPLUG (which became the now-defunct Center for Commercial-Free Public Education). She spends far too much time on social media.
