A Challenge for Art Education: Including Lesbians and Gays.

Lampela, Laurel

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ERIC Number: EJ520817

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Publication Date: 1995

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A Challenge for Art Education: Including Lesbians and Gays.

Lampela, Laurel

Studies in Art Education, v36 n4 p242-48 Sum 1995

Maintains that teachers should acknowledge sexual orientation as an individual difference and address it in the classroom and the curriculum. Includes several examples of artists' sexuality being expressed through their work. Details four basic concepts important to this effort and includes several reference works on gay artists. (MJP)

Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum, High Risk Students, Homosexuality, Humanistic Education, Role Models, Secondary Education, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Identity, Social Change, Student Needs, Student Subcultures

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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