Cultural Pedagogy ― Art/Education/Politics

This is a fully informed progressive response to the recent debates surrounding the multifold issues of culture and education. Trend provides a compelling argument for integrating education and the arts more fully into our lives--both in theory and in practice. His theoretical overview of the ideological battles over texts and their discursive contexts leads into a critical analysis of how both conservative and alternative cultural education have evolved in such settings as the school, the university, and the community, and concludes by calling for a new cultural pedagogy.

DAVID TREND is most recently co-director of programs at the Capp Street Project, a nonprofit alternative arts organization. Trend spent five years as editor of Afterimage, the award-winning progressive visual arts publication. He lectures nationally on media and culture and has written over 80 articles and essays for such periodicals as Afterimage, Art in America, Cultural Studies, and Exposure. He holds an MFA in visual arts studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.