How The Arts Ed Field Can Be Its Own Worst Enemy
Submitted by Steve on October 3, 2011
Richard Kessler, who will be blogging from the 2011 GIA Conference later this week, posts to his own blog, Dewey 21C:
For about as long as I have been in this field, which is longer than I would now like to admit, I have witnessed the unfortunate tendency for us to shoot ourselves in the foot. It could be the arguments of discipline-based versus integration, it could be residencies versus field trips, aesthetic versus creative, blah, blah, blah.
One way or the other, while one ideologue makes their shot across the bow, the people who are not so deeply connected to the arts yawn, and walk away. And many of these people are the ones we need to bring on board.