Abstract
What began as a teacher-student relationship between educators Amy Brook Snider and Jodi Kushins has developed into a friendship and working partnership. At first, they did not consider their continuing long-distance connection as intergenerational. They shared experiences and exchanged ideas oblivious to the great difference in their ages. But as online tools, research, and communication emerged as a central focus of Jodi’s life and teaching, they became aware that this development might lead to an intergenerational digital divide between them. In order to explore their different responses to what has been called screen culture, they brought back their puppet alter egos for a presentation-cum-puppet show at the National Art Education Association conference in Chicago in 2016. This paper traces the history of the shifting relationship of two art educators, along with an extended excerpt from the script for their second puppet show.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25889/n3xb-7e16
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© The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Recommended Citation
Kushins, Jodi and Snider, Amy B.
(2018)
"Intergenerational Narratives: The Personal is Professional,"
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education: Vol. 1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ijllae/vol1/iss1/4
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