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Youth, aesthetics, and visual cultural education - Kevin Tavin
Visual culture as a new transdisciplinary field of study is explored through the changing boundaries that inform understanding of art institutions, forms, practices, pedagogy. Critical theories that shape analyses of culture provide the backdrop for engaging performative interpretation and creating meaningful production by children and youth. The use or uselessness of “aesthetics” is problematized.
Kevin Tavin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at The Ohio State University in the U.S. He holds a BFA, M.Ed., and a Ph.D. in art education and has taught K-12 and post-secondary courses since 1990. Tavin's research focuses on visual culture, critical pedagogy, cultural studies and art education. His work is published in numerous international journals and has been presented through lectures in the U.S., Sweden, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Finland, Denmark, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Spain.
