When advocating for the essential role arts education plays in our students lives, I am often asked the question “Will I really be able to teach all this in the real classroom? What if I don’t have the support of my administration, staff or the parents?” I often turn to an article I read by Jane Cera in 2013. Her article Teacher Leadership in Art Education Preparation states:
Teaching art education students about teacher leadership requires teach-
ing about the culture of schools, school reform efforts, professionalization, and empowering teachers. We can do all of this through a pedagogy that utilizes an emphasis on the real world of schools and their political complexities, including institutionalized resistance to change, along with strategies for effectively dealing with that resistance.
Our roles as Arts Educators is so much more then teaching a technique, we are responsible for fostering creative growth, problem solving and above all to help those around us see what is possible. To make the connections they believe cannot be made and to do it with the passion that brought us to our education profession.
For Jane’s full article click: Teacher leadership in Arts Education
Teacher Leadership in Art Education Preparation
Author(s): Jane Cera
Source: Visual Arts Research , Vol. 39, No. 2 (Winter 2013), pp. 93-103 Published by: University of Illinois Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/visuartsrese.39.2.0093