Linda Frye Burnham / 04:25 PM
Forwarded from Sharon Chappell, doctoral candidate, Arizona state U.:
Call for papers
Panel on “At Risk” Youth in Community Arts
This panel seeks a diverse set of perspectives on “at risk” youth in community arts, particularly the ways that young people in marginalized and oppressed situations take creative risks to speak through the arts and the impacts of that speech. If accepted, this panel will participate in The Society for the History of Children and Youth’s 5th Biennial Conference -- Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective – which will take place at the University of California, Berkeley, July 10-12, 2009.
Topics might include:
1 the ways that constructions of “at risk” are questioned through creative action
2 the ways that young people become leaders in their communities through social/political art making
3 the ways that cultural norms, traditions and institutions are affected by young people’s creative action on social issues
4 examples of arts practices and programs with “at risk” youth and the implications of that practice
5 responses to criticism that the arts “make noise” but do not produce political or social change and how this criticism affects young artists creating the work (See, for example All about the Beat by J. McWhorter)
6 responses to criticism that particular art forms participate in oppressive patriarchal imperialist cultural history and how young people’s use of the arts defies or participates in oppressive traditions (See for example We Real Cool by b. hooks)
7 analysis of the importance of speech and silence in various “at risk” communities and how the arts function in that continuum of “voice” (See for example Democratic Dialogue in Education by M. Boler)
A 300 word abstract and author biography can be sent by November 1, 2008 to Sharon Chappell, Arizona State University at sharon.chappell@asu.edu. Decisions will be made in early December and the panel proposal will be authored collaboratively.
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