Kerry Freedman

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Kerry Freedman is a Professor of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University and Coordinator of Doctoral Programs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is also a past Head of the Art + Design Education Division. Professor Freedman's research focuses on questions concerning the relationship of curriculum to art, culture, and technology.  Recently, she has particularly focused on inquiries into student learning through engagement with visual culture. She has provided significant leadership to the field through her various service roles and publications. Freedman's service roles include, but are not limited to: Senior Editor of Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the National Art Education Association, and World Councilor of the International Society for Education through Art, a UNESCO affiliate. She was the co-Chair of the Art Education Research Institute. [1] [2]

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Freedman is an active researcher with over 100 published articles and book chapters and her work has been translated into multiple languages. Freedman has done over 200 national and international presentations. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at several universities, including Harvard University, Cambridge University, University of Melbourne, University of Barcelona, and University of Sao Paulo.

The art education paradigm shift to VCAE (Visual Culture Art Education) has been greatly influenced by her work. Freedman's book, Teaching Visual Culture, provided guidance in the transition from a narrow, discipline-based focus on fine art in education. Freedman argued that visual culture, including popular culture and fine art, is socially constructed and has become pervasive, shaping all aspects of public behavior and influencing conceptions of self. She sought a response to these conditions from educators to prepare students for the promises and pitfalls of visual culture. Recently, Kerry Freedman was an editor for the curriculum volume of The International Encyclopedia of Art & Design Education, the first art and design education encyclopedia to be published.

Education

Kerry Freedman obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts and master's degrees in Art Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction-Art Education with minors in Art (Computer Graphics), and Psychology was granted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

After teaching K-12 art, Freedman's higher education career began as a professor at the University of Minnesota from 1985–2000. Currently, she is a professor of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University. [3] While at Northern Illinois University, Freedman was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) [4] in 2000, received the 2006 NAEA Higher Art Educator of the year, and the 2014 Higher Art Educator of the Year by the Illinois Art Education Association (IAEA). She has also received the Leon Jackman Award (the Australian national award for distinguished research in art education), the Ziegfeld Award, [5] the Manual Barkan Award (NAEA), the United States Society for Education through Art Award (2019) among others. [6] [3]

Freedman has worked in over twenty-five countries and has done over one hundred and fifty national and international presentations. [3] She has also supported the arts through several PBS Kids publications that emphasized the importance of art in child development, [7] self-expression, [8] and developing connections. [9]

Recent Examples of Publications

Books

Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research [10]

The International Encyclopedia of Art & Design Education

Teaching Visual Culture: Curriculum, Aesthetics, and the Social Life of Art [11]

Looking Back: Fifty Years of Studies in Art Education [12]

Curriculum, Culture and Art Education: Comparative Perspective (Suny Series, Innovations in Curriculum) [13]

Postmodern Art Education: An Approach to Curriculum [14]

Book chapters

Visual culture and visual literacy. The International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, Vol. 2 of 3 (Curriculum). [15]

Social justice in art education: An example from Africa's last colony. The International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, Vol. 2 of 3 (Curriculum). [16]

Viewing comics as education through art. In D. Seelow (Ed.), Leaping tall buildings with comics: Pedagogy and practice. [17]

Interculturalism now: How visual culture has changed formal and informal learning. In P. Burnard, E. Mackinlay, & K. Powell (Eds.) The international handbook of intercultural arts research. [18]

Becoming a student of art: How institutional change can support contemporary practice. In K. Hatton (Ed.), Towards an inclusive arts education.

Learning as a condition of creativity: The relationship between knowing and making art. In E. Zimmerman & F. Bastos (Eds.), Creativity in art education. [19]

Research as social action: The research process in art education. In K. Miraglia & C. Smilan (Eds.), Inquiry in action: Paradigms, methodologies and perspectives in art education research.

The art of gaming: Knowledge construction in visual culture learning communities. In Venkatesh, V., Castro, J. C., Lewis, J. E., & Wallin, J. (Eds.), Educational, behavioral, and psychological considerations in niche online Communities. [20]

Social perspectives of art education in the US. In Bering, K., Niechoff, R. Pauls, K., & Hölscher, S. (Eds.), Visual learning: Positionen im internationalen Vergleich.

Assessment of visual knowledge and communication in art education. In A. Karpati & E. Gaul (Eds.), From child art to visual culture of youth.

An aesthetic of horror in education: Schools as dystopian environments. In J. Heybach & E. Sheffield (Eds.), Dystopia and education.

Articles

The story of Vizcult: How a grassroots idea influenced art education.

Collaboration in visual culture learning communities: Towards a synergy of individual and collective creative practice,

Cultural literacies approach. [21]

Visual culture learning communities: How and what students come to know in informal art groups. [22]

Leadership in art education: Taking action in schools and communities. [23]

Rethinking creativity: A definition to support contemporary practice. [24]

Art making/trouble making: Creativity, policy, and leadership in art education. [25]

References

  1. ↑ "Kerry Freedman » Reading With Pictures – We get comics into schools and get schools into comics". 3 May 2015. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  2. ↑ "AERI – Art Education Research Institute | Steering Committee". AERI – Art Education Research Institute. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  3. 1 2 3 "Kerry Friedman". Northern Illinois University. Archived from the original on 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  4. ↑ "School of Art and Design's Freedman named Higher Art Educator of the Year – NIU Today". NIU Today. 2014-10-14. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
  5. ↑ Andrew Pemberton (2019-07-08). "Kerry Freedman, professor of art education wins national Ziegfeld Award". NIU Today. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  6. ↑ "Discussant Bios | Teachers College Columbia University". Teachers College – Columbia University. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  7. ↑ Lynch, Grace Hwang (2012-05-16). "The Importance of Art in Child Development". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  8. ↑ Parents, PBS KIDS for (2019-06-18). "Encouraging Self-Expression Through Art |…". PBS KIDS for Parents. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  9. ↑ Parents, PBS KIDS for (2019-06-18). "Connecting with Kids Through Art | Parenting…". PBS KIDS for Parents. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  10. ↑ "Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  11. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2003). Teaching Visual Culture: Curriculum, Aesthetics, and the Social Life of Art. Teachers College Press. ISBN   978-0-8077-4371-3.
  12. ↑ Looking back : editors' selections from 50 years of studies in art education. Freedman, Kerry J.,, National Art Education Association. Reston, VA. 2009. ISBN   978-1-890160-45-6. OCLC   419535340.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ↑ Curriculum, culture, and art education : comparative perspectives. Freedman, Kerry J., Hernández y Hernández, Fernando. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1998. ISBN   0-7914-3773-6. OCLC   38090887.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ Efland, Arthur, 1929- (1996). Postmodern art education : an approach to curriculum. Freedman, Kerry J., Stuhr, Patricia L. Reston, Va.: National Art Education Association. ISBN   0-937652-89-X. OCLC   36236452.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2019), "Visual Culture and Visual Literacy" , The International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 1–10, doi:10.1002/9781118978061.ead079, ISBN   978-1-118-97806-1, S2CID   229290451 , retrieved 2020-07-09
  16. ↑ Perez-Martin, Fernando; Freedman, Kerry (2018), "Social Justice in Art Education: An Example from Africa's Last Colony", The International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, American Cancer Society, pp. 1–12, doi: 10.1002/9781118978061.ead103 , ISBN   978-1-118-97806-1
  17. ↑ Seelow, David D. (2019-04-30). Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-7158-1.
  18. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2016-01-08). "Interculturalism Now How visual culture has changed formal and informal learning". In Burnard, Pamela; MacKinlay, Elizabeth; Powell, Kimberly (eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research (PDF). doi:10.4324/9781315693699. ISBN   978-1-138-90993-9.
  19. ↑ Bastos, Flávia; Zimmerman, Enid (2015). Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education: Foundations, Pedagogies, and Contemporary Issues. National Art Education Association. ISBN   978-1-890160-62-3.
  20. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2014). The Art of Gaming: Knowledge Construction in Visual Culture Learning Communities. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5206-4.ch001. ISBN   978-1-4666-5206-4 . Retrieved 2020-07-09.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  21. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2015), "Cultural Literacies Approach", The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 170–172, doi:10.4135/9781483346267.n63, ISBN   978-1-4522-4428-0 , retrieved 2019-06-13
  22. ↑ Freedman, Kerry; Heijnen, Emiel; Kallio-Tavin, Mira; Kárpáti, Andrea; Papp, László (2015-11-25). "Visual Culture Learning Communities: How and What Students Come to Know in Informal Art Groups". Studies in Art Education. 54 (2): 103–115. doi:10.1080/00393541.2013.11518886. S2CID   141406590.
  23. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2015-11-17). "Leadership in Art Education: Taking Action in Schools and Communities". Art Education. 64 (2): 40–45. doi:10.1080/00043125.2011.11519119. S2CID   150501764.
  24. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2015-11-17). "Rethinking Creativity: A Definition to Support Contemporary Practice". Art Education. 63 (2): 8–15. doi:10.1080/00043125.2010.11519056. S2CID   140920339.
  25. ↑ Freedman, Kerry (2015-12-16). "Artmaking/Troublemaking: Creativity, Policy, and Leadership in Art Education". Studies in Art Education. 48 (2): 204–217. doi:10.1080/00393541.2007.11650100. S2CID   150414349.
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