This IMOVIE is designed by Gail Harper Yeilding for the Images Project assignment for EDF 600: Urban Education taught by Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The photos were taken by myself and also pulled from newspaper articles. Newspaper sources are from The Birmingham News and the first bridge picture is from the Huffington-Post. Also, the picture at the Alabama Humanities Foundation was taken by a parent. I took photos from the newspaper in an effort to explore media portrayals of education with my own experiences.
The rationale for this project was developed from a reading titled, "Releasing emotion: Artmaking and leadership for social justice" by Laura Shapiro.
The goal of the movie is to display a community of strong poets and to display the ability of artmaking as a tool to challenge assumptions, release emotion, and to allow a learner to make meaning.
A guiding quote from the article which gave me inspiration: (Barone 2000) writes, "the strong poet is a strong storyteller, continuously revising her life story in the light of her own experience and imagination..."
Reference for the reading:
Shapiro, L (2006). Releasing emotion: Artmaking and
leadership for social justice: Making revolutions in
education (pp.233-250). Boston: Pearson.
Many thanks to the strong community of poets involved in this project!
The photos were taken by myself and also pulled from newspaper articles. Newspaper sources are from The Birmingham News and the first bridge picture is from the Huffington-Post. Also, the picture at the Alabama Humanities Foundation was taken by a parent. I took photos from the newspaper in an effort to explore media portrayals of education with my own experiences.
The rationale for this project was developed from a reading titled, "Releasing emotion: Artmaking and leadership for social justice" by Laura Shapiro.
The goal of the movie is to display a community of strong poets and to display the ability of artmaking as a tool to challenge assumptions, release emotion, and to allow a learner to make meaning.
A guiding quote from the article which gave me inspiration: (Barone 2000) writes, "the strong poet is a strong storyteller, continuously revising her life story in the light of her own experience and imagination..."
Reference for the reading:
Shapiro, L (2006). Releasing emotion: Artmaking and
leadership for social justice: Making revolutions in
education (pp.233-250). Boston: Pearson.
Many thanks to the strong community of poets involved in this project!
Take this class if you haven't already and check out UAB's Center for Urban Education, http://www.uab.edu/cue
