Table of Contents

 

Plenary Speech

Nicholas Michelli, Presidential Professor (CUNY Graduate Center)

 

 

Description of Lincoln Center Institute

 

 

 

Strand A - Arts in the General Setting - Aesthetic Education in the K-18 Environment: What It Looks Like and How It Works. This strand examined Lincoln Center Institute's aproach to aesthetic education, including discussions of key components and previous examples of successful practice.

 

Art Workshop - "Oak Seasons" Windows

Jerry James (Lincoln Center Institute Teaching Artist)
Tara O'Grady (Lincoln Center Institute Program Manager)

 

Theater Workshop - "The Snow Queen"

Patti Chilsen (Lincoln Center Institute Teaching Artist)

 

"The Snow Queen"

 

Before and After the Performance: Selecting Contextual Materials

John Holyoke (Lincoln Center Institute)
Suzanne Li (Queens College)
Angela Love (Queens College)

 

Dance Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Susan Koff (Dance Education Program, Steinhardt School, NYU)

 

Strand B - Partnership Within the Community & Across Disciplines. This strand addressed social and environmental issues in aesthetic education and cross-disciplinary collaborations. It invited participation of community leaders, arts specialists, and non-teaching professionals who work in and outside classrooms. It offered paper presentations, workshops, and panel discussions utilizing the interdisciplinary and community-based approach to aesthetic eduction practiced by Lincoln Center Institue.

 

Aesthetic Connections: A Unique Collaborative Pilot - Lincoln Center Institute, State University at New Paltz/Art Eduation Department, Regional School Districts, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art & the Dutchess Arts Camp/Mill Street Loft Programs

Aliza Driller (Highland High School)
Ann Miceli Teed (State University of New York at New Paltz)

 

The Upper West Side Architectual Project

Maggie Reilly (The Computer School)

 

Aesthetic Education & Action Research: A Title V Collaboration Between Two CUNY Campuses & Lincoln Center Institute in Search of Engaged Pedagogy

Holly Fairbank (Lincoln Center Institute)
Amanda Gulla (Lehman College)
Susan Polirstok (Lehman College)

 

Fear of Water: A Response to Life After Hurricane Katrina

Lori Kent (Queen College)

 

 

Strand C - Excellence in Education & Advocacy for Aesthetic Education. This strand aimed to inspire the advocacy of the capacities necessary for engaging in aethetic and critical encounters with the world. It explored the re-imagination of "excellence" in education and developed stategies to support this vision.

 

Leadership for Social Justice: An Arts-Based Inquiry -- Professional Development Research Project

Lucy Barbera (State University of New York at New Paltz)

 

The Emotional Intelligence of Aesthetic Education

John Pellitteri (Queens College)

 

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self & Social Understanding

Yolanda Medina (Borough of Manhattan Community College)

 

Teaching & Learning Aesthetic Education: Relevance & Reflection

Faith Deveaux (Lehman College)
Ernesto Donas (CUNY Graduate Center)
Gail Perry-Ryder (CUNY Graduate Center)

 

 

Strand D - Research Into Aesthetic Education. This strand offered a conceptual and interdisciplinary approach to aesthetic education. It was designed for those interested in exploring topics such as legitimate modes of inquiry; deeper understanding through the arts; the realtionship between aesthetic education and social justice, action research, and ways aesthetic education can help to expand a community of learners.

 

Accessing Embodied Imagination, A Movement-Learning Theory and the Lincoln Center Institute Approach to Aesthetic Eduation

Mark DeGarmo (Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/ Dynamic Forms Inc.)

 

An Exploration into the Process of Integrating Aesthetic Inquiry in Courses Across the Teacher Education Curriculum

Lisa Novemsky (Brooklyn College)
Florence Samson (Education Consultant)
Marietta Saravia-Shore (Lehman College)
Gale Synnott (Brooklyn College)

 

Deconstructing & Reconstructing Aesthetic Education in the Mathematics Education Classroom

Edward Wall (City College)

 

Disrupting The Taken-for-Granted: Urban Teacher Education & Aesthetic Lines of Inquiry

Catherine Franklin (City College)
Gretchen Johnson (City College)

 

What Aesthetic Education Contributes to Classroom Motivation for Students with Learning Disabilities

Michelle Malow-Iroff (Manhattanville College)
Karen Steuerwalt (Queens College)

 

 

Summary of Panel Discussion

 

Summary of Maxine Greene's Keynote Address

 

Poster Presentations