Can Art Help People Develop Empathy?
A new Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts has made people wonder whether empathy can be taught? And, if so, how can the arts help with this process?
A new Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts has made people wonder whether empathy can be taught? And, if so, how can the arts help with this process?
Rapper Jay Z recently released his 13th studio album 4:44. Could this be used in the classroom to enlighten and education English students? Brent McKeown says yes.
With the rise of the crowd-sourced syllabus, such as the #FergusonSyllabus or #TrumpSyllabus, we explore what a syllabus is and how the digital age might be expanding the scope of online learners.
Mexico’s struggle for education reform has been a long journey paved in protests. The foundation upon which today’s strikes and struggles can be viewed has been a long time in the making.
Over the course, we studied artists like Damon Davis and his #allhandsondeck project, Kerry James Marshall’s photographic collages of lynchings, Ken Gonzales-Day’s work with both protest photographs and erased lynchings, and Natalie Bookchin’s video collages.
Let’s revisit Christopher Columbus through a variety of lenses, examining the myths and legends behind this once exalted and now oft-contested figure.