Expectations for Image Culture Course

I am currently in a weekend class entitled Image Culture at Teachers College. Although I am not a student in the arts department, I chose to take this course because I wanted to jump-start my thinking around the possibilities for developing arguments to continue to fund art programs in schools. As a middle school principal, this is of particular interest to me because pre-/adolescents are living in worlds that are saturated by images and attempting to navigate through them. I am always interested in thinking more about how existing programs could be re-imagined and/or re-designed reasonably, so that programs and curricular domains remain alive for students. From this course, I hope to learn about some fundamental ideas from those directly involved in the field, and I hope that these new understandings spark my thinking in a practical, school-based way.

As I work towards completing an Ed.D. at Teachers College, my interests remain in documenting and exploring classroom talk and the dynamic exchanges between teachers and students.