The Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental series of courses designed to introduce undergraduates to the key issues and methodologies in the field of arts education for multiple publics and to a broad range of possible career paths including teaching artistry, K-12 classroom teaching, museum education, socially-engaged arts practice, creative arts therapies, and arts advocacy.
VAPAE is committed to creating a diverse pool of candidates for potential part-time teaching positions in arts education during each academic year. Currently, VAPAE is interested in meeting qualified candidates to teach its Arts Ed 103 - Socially Engaged Pedagogy in the Arts course.
Arts Ed 103 Course Description:
Students are in contact and conversation with active community-based artists and youth workers regularly utilizing goals, principles, and practices of socially engaged art. Based on readings and investigations, students research and write one case study on one arts site that is currently utilizing socially engaged art practices and pedagogies. Theoretical and experiential components provided for students from all arts disciplines to explore tactics and strategy of socially engaged art practice and pedagogy through a variety of approaches that may include readings, visual and audio documentation, discussion, research papers, oral presentations, and relevant guest speakers.
Arts Ed 103 Course Goals:
Students develop, practice, and implement methods of popular education as a liberatory practice, with the goal of raising critical consciousness and empowering their students and/or communities to participate creatively in the transformation of their world.
Students synthesize the revolutionary political possibilities of socially engaged art with the practice of radical pedagogy to formulate their own guiding positions. As a class, they engage with a current social justice issue that affects their communities and collaborate with those communities to devise creative projects and solutions to address the issue.
Students critically analyze and disrupt the limitations of their personal contexts within the academy, arts and education, striving for more accessible and effective communication through collaborative in-class projects and a discursive final project.
Minimum Qualifications: MA required, MFA or PhD preferred; relevant professional experience
Annual Salary Range $70,977-$199,722.
Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. See Table #15
Appointments contingent on availability of funding.
For more information about this program visit the VAPAE Website.
