The state of the world keeps me up at night, questioning my role as a social justice educator. I think with, through, and around what social change means. Reflecting on my practice, I have followed Western/colonial research and educational methodologies, knowing that they need to be challenged but often being unable to do so. I make present this living in contradiction in this personal narrative, a research methodology practiced for generations by people in the global south and by marginalized people in the United States. It is a reckoning of my work as a researcher, teacher, activist, and director of programs in the academic industrial complex. My desire for a decolonial option in art education requires me to interrogate its classificatory lenses. I explore social optics, drawing on examples through three lenses: art as inherently progressive; the interrelationship between visibility and invisibility; and artistic activism for organizing and building solidarity.

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通过艺术教育社会变革：个人的思考

世界状况使我彻夜难眠，质疑我作为社会正义教育者的角色。我认为，社会变革意味着什么，贯穿其中以及围绕着什么。考虑到我的实践，我一直遵循西方/殖民地研究和教育方法，知道他们需要受到挑战，但通常无法做到。我在这种个人叙述中提出了这种矛盾的生活，这种叙述方法是全球南方的人们和美国的边缘化人群世世代代实践的一种研究方法。这是对我作为研究人员，老师，激进主义者和学术产业园区项目主管的工作的认可。我渴望在艺术教育中采用非殖民主义的选择，因此我必须审视其分类学视角。我探索社会光学，从三个方面借鉴实例：艺术是天生的进步；可见性与隐身性之间的相互关系；以及组织和建立团结的艺术行动主义。