Critical Response:
Reflections and/or relevance to personal art educational experiences/or teaching experience
Teachers play an enormous roll in the classroom (as if we didn’t already know that). Their attitude towards the children dramatically affect the way that student’s perceive education, school, and learning. A teacher who allows an LGBT student to explore and express themselves is likely helping the students understand themselves as well as give insight to those who may have not understood them before. It is great for LGBT students to work in community activities, as it helps give them a sense of belonging. Artivism, or art-activism, is meant to take a stand on these topics, and allows the students to make statements on issues that are meaningful to them. Critical civic praxis is the act of largely cooperating practice in social groups.Basically what this is saying is that students, particularly those who identify is LGBT should work in groups, communities, or social functions to help strengthen their bonds with other people, help spread the awareness of LGBT and their strife, and give themselves a sense of being wanted or needed in society.
LGBTQ: Youth + Artivism Video
It is particularly important to reach out to LGBT communities. We must learn how to support them, and actively endorses artivism as well as critical civic praxis. This gives insight to LGBT youth and adults lives, and discusses the similar and different struggles that they may go to compared to non-LGBT people.
"LGBTQ youth’s lives have remained challenging and complex, within and outside of schools.-In successful critical civic praxis, adults and youth collaborate; in artivist projects they co-create. Traditional educational hierarchies dissolve. Everyone learns and grows together."
"…[To] Provide opportunities and support for youth leadership and development.-…Focus on building critical consciousness around important issues directly related to youth’s lives. Youth learn sophisticated, complex ways to examine issues, critically consider causes, outcomes, and implications."