From vague policies regarding racism to challenges within the classroom, from a lack of power to a lack of understanding, racism is constantly perpetuated throughout all the links of the education policy chain. This literature review examines reports and articles regarding racism within visual arts education, and the many ways that whiteness as a norm is produced, and reproduced both inside, and outside the classroom, and how racism can be counteracted. While teachers face challenges regarding both understanding the issue as well as how to negate it. Through systematic searches, deep reading, and analysis we’ve gathered articles and reports that answer our questions: what does racism look like within visual arts education? What are some ways to counteract it? Many articles suggest that while whiteness shapes and is shaped by the educational system on all levels, working with visual culture is a useful and powerful tool to counteract racism. It provides both students and teachers with an opportunity to critically reflect upon themselves, and their relationship to themselves, to others, and to society. It also provides a broader range of experiences to be represented within the classroom, and thus might offer inclusion, and visibility of issues in spaces where exclusion and invisibility might otherwise be the norm.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-49366 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nord, Emma, Carneholm, Emma |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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