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Education by Example: Defining Black as Beautiful in Segregated America
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
For 50 years Ebony Fashion Fair, a travelling fashion show, harnessed popular culture as a super-fueled allegory for social change redefining how black women regarded their personal and societal status
Target Audience
Primarily: educators, historians, life coaches, educational strategists, curriculum planners, museum educators: The material will show how it is possible to harness popular culture to enhance learning and accelerate changes in the affirmation of both self and societal worth
Learning Outcomes
1. Appreciate off-site learning as a powerful experience--field trips are often regarded as an escape from the classroom rather than a focused opportunity in a different venue 2. To regard popular culture as a potent learning conduit--using popular culture and the opportunity to learn through objects is infinite yet often poorly articulated in curriculum 3. How to structure a learning experience in the guise of entertainment--a venue change can be transformative by harnessing affective experiences
Session Description
Based on recent research for an exhibition at a major mid-western museum for which the author was a co-curator, the concurrent session format allows time to provide a lecture with multiple images, original film and interviews to support the central hypothesis of the value of material culture as a powerful learning tool. In addition, the exhibition content focuses on the use of fashion as a tool for advancing self-worth in black women while raising money for black educational institutions and serves as a crucible of powerful ideas ready to be unpacked within the scaffolding of adult education.
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No preference
Primary Presenter
Virginia I Heaven, MA, Columbia College Chicago
Work Title
Assistant Professor