A Journey Toward an Art Education for Wired Youth

Abstract

The author examines his own journey in art education over the past 30 years, largely with reference to 13 articles published in Studies in Art Education. Five issues are described in which the past and present are compared. These include the shift from an attempt to validate copying when learning to draw to validating today’s youth remix culture on the net; the shift from popular culture to the more inclusive concept of visual culture; the shift from the focus of visual culture on the visual to multisensory, multimodal forms of communication; the shift from Neo-Marxism to New Times; and a shift from critical theory and critical pedagogy to a playful, dialogic pedagogy.