Title: Uncovering Conflicted Identities. A Youth Education Program in the Arts
Abstract: espanolA medida que nuestra sociedad evoluciona y nuestras conversaciones se hacen mas complejas, mas y mas personas estan comenzando a reconocer la naturaleza multiple de la identidad y sus muchos subconjuntos: raza, idioma, sexualidad, etnia, religion, por nombrar algunos. Unos tienen mas peso que otros, a veces externamente, como estamos viendo ahora mismo con el caso de la raza, y otras veces internamente, como la creencia en Dios. En un mundo cada vez mas binario, es imperativo abordar la complejidad de la identidad y estar abierto y participar en conversaciones sobre lo que significan ciertas en conflicto para las personas y las comunidades. La capacidad de identificar y analizar criticamente identidades en conflicto, para poder escuchar y respetar multiples narrativas es fundamental para un futuro mejor, y ese tipo de formacion social, emocional y analitica debe comenzar a una edad temprana. Imaginemos si los ninos en edad escolar se sintieran comodos haciendo las preguntas: ?De quien estamos aprendiendo la historia? ?De quien narrativa estamos leyendo? ?Cuales son las otras caras de esta historia? ?Como la representacion da forma a la percepcion? Esta es una propuesta para la presentacion de un poster de un plan de estudios que reinventaria y reviviria la relacion entre las instituciones culturales y los jovenes de la comunidad. Con base en un museo de arte, los estudiantes tendrian la oportunidad de explorar las colecciones mientras se les solicitaban las siguientes preguntas: ?Que tipos de piezas ven aqui? ?De quien es la historia representada en esta coleccion? El programa incluiria discusiones y conversaciones criticas, investigando que preguntas podrian responder, que preguntas no pudieron y por que. El programa concluye con un proyecto de representacion visual: se le pedira a cada estudiante que escoja una pieza de la coleccion y responda una serie de preguntas, lo mas importante, ?existen representaciones de identidad dentro de esta pieza? ?Estan en conflicto o se complementan? ?Por que o por que no? EnglishAs our society evolves and our conversations complexify, more and more people are beginning to recognize the multifarious nature of identity and its many subsets: race, language, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, to name a few. Some of these carry more weight than others, sometimes externally, such as we are seeing right now with the case of race, and other times internally, such as one’s belief in God, perhaps. In an ever increasingly binaried world, it’s imperative to address the complexity of identity and to be open to and engaged in conversations about what certain conflicted identities mean for individuals and communities. The ability to critically identify and analyze conflicting “identities,” to be able to listen to and respect multiple narratives is critical to a better future and that sort of social, emotional, and analytical training must start at a young age. Imagine if school children grew comfortable asking the questions: whose history are we learning? Whose narrative are we reading? What are the other sides to this story? How does representation shape perception? This is a proposal for a poster presentation of a curriculum that would reimagine and revive the relationship between cultural institutions and community youth. Based within an art museum, students would be given the chance to explore the collections while prompted with the following questions: what types of pieces do you see here? Whose history is represented in this collection? The program would involve critical discussion and conversation, investigating which questions they could answer, which questions they couldn’t, and why. The program concludes with a visual representation project: each student would be asked to pick a piece from the collection and answer a series of questions, most importantly, are there representations of identity within this piece? Do they conflict or complement each other? Why or why not?
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: es
Type: article
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