Youth Arts for Social Change

Youth Arts for Social Change is a course for K-12 teachers, piloted by Cultural Agents and now included by the Harvard Extension School. Local artists (musician, actor, muralist, photographer, poet) train teachers during day-long workshops to incorporate creative practices in their classrooms and after-school programs. Teachers locate their own creative talents and gain confidence in their students’ ability to develop concentration and stamina by learning academic material through creative arts.

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Links

Harvard Gazette Article: Using arts to better the art of teaching

Supporting Documents and Work from Previous Years

Final Project Pamphlet
Required and Suggested Readings for YASC 2006
Faculty Bios for YASC 2006
Arts as Epistemology: Enabling Children to Know What They Know
Art and Accountability
Notes for Week 1 of YASC 2006
Notes on the political economy of black music

 

Unaffiliated Academic Opportunity: Landscape and Human Rights Workshop