“The Aperture On Sight curriculum is designed to teach visual literacy through working with photography and creating photobooks. It builds students’ abilities to communicate as visual storytellers, develops them as creative and critical thinkers, as well as building their capacity for academic and professional success.”
Full curriculum and resources are available online for free download.
“The Photoville Passport was created for Photoville Education Day, an annual art education initiative that gives local middle and high school students an inside look into the exhibitions, artists and curators that make up New York City’s premier pop-up photo destination, and the power of visual storytelling.”
More teacher resources available here: https://unitedphotoindustries.com/education/resources/
List of books that address critical pedagogy, critical multicultural education, anti-racist education and more!
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in Schools by Mica Pollock
The U.S. Constitution and The Great Law of Peace: A Comparison of Two Founding Documents by Gregory Schaff
Emergent Strategies by adrienne maree brown
A selection of interactive prompts pulled from Art21’s Educators’ Guides, the Learning Library offers both discussion questions and hands-on activities in relation to Art21 artists and film segments.
Watch TED Talk here. July 2009.
“Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvWUlus6ao
Run time: 1hr 25min
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later.
Watch the film on PBS here.
Run time 53min 5s