| Full-Time Faculty
 Patty
Bode
Director of Art Education for Tufts University in
affiliation with The School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
Patty holds an Ed.D. from University of
Massachusetts Amherst with a concentration in
Language, Literacy and Culture. Her research
interests include: the arts in urban education, the
role of visual culture in art teacher preparation,
and the intersection of postmodernism and
multiculturalism in art education. She has published
and lectured on critical art pedagogy based in
public schools, retheorizing identity and
curriculum, and redefining multicultural education.
Years of experience as an activist public school art
teacher and teacher educator inform Patty Bode's art
making, research and teaching. Patty is the
recipient of National Multicultural Educator Award
of 2005 from National Association for Multicultural
Education for efforts in anti-racist curriculum
reform in art education and bridging theory and
practice in multicultural education. She delivered
the keynote address at the 2006 conference of the
Massachusetts Art Education Association. Patty also
co-delivered, with Sonia Nieto, a keynote address at
the 2007 conference of the National Association for
Multicultural Education.
More about Patty Bode’s work as an A/R/Tographer -
Artist/Researcher/Teacher
Recent publications
Nieto, S. & Bode, P. (2008). Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical context of multicultural
education, 5th ed. Boston/NY: Allyn & Bacon/Longman.
Nieto, S., Bode, P., Kang, E. & Raible, J. (2008).
Identity, Community and Diversity: Retheorizing
multicultural curriculum for the postmodern era. In
F. M. Connelly, M. F. He & J. Phillion (Eds.), The
Sage Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bode, P. (2005). Waiting tables and juggling
motherhood: Taking the road less traveled. In S.
Nieto (Ed.), Why We Teach (pp. 49-57). New York:
Teachers College Press.
Bode, P. and Schmidt, S. (2004). Painting a picture
of the Movement: from Aaron Douglas to the Memphis
sanitation workers' strike. In A. Murray, D. Menkart,
and J. View (Eds.), Putting the Movement Back into
Civil Rights Teaching (pp. 410-416). Washington, DC.
PPRC/Teaching for Change. Available online >>
Bode, P. (2003). Puerto Rican arts in social
context. In S. Nieto, What Keeps Teachers Going?
(pp. 82-85). New York: Teachers College Press.
Bode, P. (2002, Fall). The Puerto Rican Vejigante:
The Importance of teaching art in its social
context. Rethinking Schools,17 (1) 8-9. Available on
line >>
Bode, P. (2002, Spring). A Letter from Kaeli. Rethinking Schools, 16(3)
18. (Reprinted from S. Nieto (1999). The Light in
their eyes: Creating multicultural learning
communities). Available online >>
Conference presentations 2006-2008
AERA American Educational Research Association New
York, NY, April 2008 "Effects of Global Oil
Contamination on Art, Visual Culture, and Amazonian
Indigenous Life." Paper presentation.
AERA American Educational Research Association New
York, NY, April 2008 “Paulo Freire, Civic
Responsibility, and Public Schools: Teachers and
Teacher Educators Reflect on Paulo Freire’s Legacy.”
Panel Symposium.
National Association for Multicultural Education,
NAME. Keynote Address: Re-affirming Diversity: New
Voices for New Times. Baltimore, MD. November 2007.
NAME National Association for Multicultural
Education. Baltimore, Maryland November 2007. “Gay
Identity in the PK-12 Classroom: Expanding
Definitions of Family.”
NECME New England Conference on Multicultural
Education. Hartford, October 2007. Panelist: “New
England Advisory Board: Networking for Change”.
NECME New England Conference on Multicultural
Education. Hartford, October 2007. “Re-Affirming
Diversity: Curriculum Reform and Multicultural
Practice”.
AERA American Educational Research Association.
Chicago, April 2007. Chair of panel of papers:
“Ethical and Practical Issues in Conducting Research
on or with K-12 Teachers”.
NAEA: National Art Education Association. New York,
March 2007. Presentation: “Gay Identity in the PK-12
art room: Expanding Definitions of Family”.
NAEA: National Art Education Association. New York,
March 2007. Presentation: “Developing an art teacher
study group that cultivates professional and
artistic identities”.
NAME: National Association for Multicultural
Education. Phoenix, November 2006. Presentation:
“Stories and Struggles in the Contested Land of
Teacher Education.”
MAEA: Massachusetts Art Education Association.
Sturbridge, Massachusetts. November 2006. KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Multiple Identities, Multiple Contexts:
Multicultural Art Education in the Postmodern Era.
NAEA: National Art Education Association. Chicago,
March 2006. Presentation with Stephanie Schmidt:
“Visual Culture: Integrating Traditional and
Postmodern Art in the Middle School Art room.”
AERA: American Educational Research Association. San
Francisco, April 2006. Invited Presidential Session.
“A Collage of Hope: The Mentorship of Sonia Nieto”.
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