出版社:LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network)
摘要:This paper explores a partnership between a high school, university researchers,and community artists in the service of improved student learning, empowerment,and self-expression through the urban arts. The Urban Arts Project partners teachersat James Lyng high school with hip-hop and other urban artists to develop unitsacross the curriculum, supported by subject-area specialists from McGill’s Facultyof Education. In this article, we introduce the project and what we have learnedabout processes of school reform through cross-sectoral collaboration from the firstyear of our partnership. This includes sharing the perspectives of the teachers andartists most actively involved in the first year’s initiatives (with video interview links).