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Patty BodePatty 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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