In 1965, The Pennsylvania State University gathered the top art educators, artists, critics, educational researchers, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers in the nation. This seminar focused on topics in art education that have never been discussed before in this kind of forum. Historically, 1965 was a year of turbulent events in America, with the Vietnam War protests, Civil Rights movement, and the Voting Rights Act were some of the issues at the forefront for many people in America. President Johnson continued proclaiming his legislation in the “Great Society” speech during his State of the Union address to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. These societal, economical, cultural and racial changes meant education, including
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In addition, investigate what new problems in art, education, and societies have impacted curriculum development fifty years later. The focus of this paper is to consider McFee’s six major social changes in the sixties and compare them to the new social changes of today.
McFee introduced art in a place of pedagogy from a social theory lens in the following areas: the emergence of minority groups, economic deprivation, population and urban increase, automation and the increase of leisure, mass media, and anomy. The contention is how to develop a diverse curriculum that will incorporate the art, culture and society to embrace minority children. McFee’s article created the conversion about the traditional American middle class ideologies and stereotypes of minorities. Furthermore, this paper will compare the “new problem areas” that emerged fifty years …show more content…
This will include social changes with the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans migration and conformism to the north and urban city society. Moreover, the increase population is predicted for the strain in urban cities with uneducated and unskilled minorities entering the workforce. McFee’s foretells, if the American middle class does not change the economic opportunities, then classism will increase and impair social advancement. Another problem address is school policy developed is by the white middle class, which exclude representations of educators from minority groups in the classrooms. This paper will inquire about McFee suggested four directives to meld art education with the emergence of minority cultures. Also, discussed is how art educators will have to shift their thinking from the traditional design to a broader curriculum that embraces visual literacy and formulate a plan that will communicate visual aesthetics in a diverse
In addition, investigate what new problems in art, education, and societies have impacted curriculum development fifty years later. The focus of this paper is to consider McFee’s six major social changes in the sixties and compare them to the new social changes of today.
McFee introduced art in a place of pedagogy from a social theory lens in the following areas: the emergence of minority groups, economic deprivation, population and urban increase, automation and the increase of leisure, mass media, and anomy. The contention is how to develop a diverse curriculum that will incorporate the art, culture and society to embrace minority children. McFee’s article created the conversion about the traditional American middle class ideologies and stereotypes of minorities. Furthermore, this paper will compare the “new problem areas” that emerged fifty years …show more content…
This will include social changes with the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans migration and conformism to the north and urban city society. Moreover, the increase population is predicted for the strain in urban cities with uneducated and unskilled minorities entering the workforce. McFee’s foretells, if the American middle class does not change the economic opportunities, then classism will increase and impair social advancement. Another problem address is school policy developed is by the white middle class, which exclude representations of educators from minority groups in the classrooms. This paper will inquire about McFee suggested four directives to meld art education with the emergence of minority cultures. Also, discussed is how art educators will have to shift their thinking from the traditional design to a broader curriculum that embraces visual literacy and formulate a plan that will communicate visual aesthetics in a diverse