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Patty BodePatty Bode, patty.bode@tufts.edu
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, re-theorizing 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. In 2008 she delivered the keynote address at the Institute for Learning Partnership at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay.

More about Patty Bode’s work as an A/R/Tographer - Artist/Researcher/Teacher

Publications

Bode, P. (2009). The Circulatory System of Oil Contamination, Visual Culture, and Amazon Indigenous Life. In A. Arnold, A. Kuo, E. Delacruz, and M. Parsons (Eds.). Globalization, Art, and Education. Reston, VA: NAEA.

Bode, P., Elton, N. & Shuman, R. (2009). Asking and Listening with High Expectations. In D. Fehr and M. Cain Fehr (Eds). Teaching Boldly! New York: Peter Lang.

Bode, P. (2008). Multicultural Education: Histories and Definitions. In Psychology of Learning Research Handbook.  Farmington Hills: Thomson Learning/Cengage.

Bode, P. (2008). Radicalizing the Reading of the World Through Art. In S. Nieto Dear Paulo: Letters from those who dare teach. Boulder: Paradigm.

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. & 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

NAEA. National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Multicultural Education Re-Activated: The Role of Visual Culture in Postmodern Patriotism."

NAEA. National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Critical Race Theory, What’s Goin’ on: Explicit Talk about Race from the K-12 Art Room to Art Teacher Preparation." Co-presented with Debra Ambush.

NAEA. National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Incarcerated Youth and Arts Education: Unlocking the Light to Excavate the School-to-Prison Pipeline through youth arts and teacher development." Co-presented with Derek Fenner.

NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. New Orleans, LA. November 2008. "Explicit Talk about Race in the PK-16+ Classroom."

MAEA Massachusetts Art Education Association. Boston, MA. May 2008. "Teaching Art Amidst War, Terrorism, Patriotism and Flag Waving."

AERA American Educational Research Association. New York, NY, April 2008. "Effects of Global Oil Contamination on Art, Visual Culture, and Amazonian Indigenous Life."

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.

NAEA National Art Education Association. New Orleans, LA. March 2008. "Hurricane Katrina and The Influence of Mass Media: teaching visual culture in the middle school art room."

NAME. National Association for Multicultural Education. Baltimore, MD. November 2007. Keynote Address: "Re-affirming Diversity: New Voices for New Times." Co-presented with Sonia Nieto.

NAME. National Association for Multicultural Education. Baltimore, MD. November 2007. "Gay Identity in the PK-12 Classroom: Expanding Definitions of Family."

NECME. New England Conference on Multicultural Education. Hartford, CT. October 2007. Panelist: "New England Advisory Board: Networking for Change".

NECME. New England Conference on Multicultural Education. Hartford, CT. October 2007. "Re-Affirming Diversity: Curriculum Reform and Multicultural Practice."

AERA. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL. 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, NY. March 2007. "Gay Identity in the PK-12 art room: Expanding Definitions of Family."

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