KERRY FREEDMAN

Kerry Freedman is a Professor of Art Education at Northern Illinois University. Professor Freedman’s research focuses on questions concerning the relationship of curriculum to art, culture, and technology. Throughout her career, she has investigated social aspects of art education and promoted cultural understanding through her teaching, research, and writing. Recently, she has focused particularly on questions concerning student engagement with visual culture and issues surrounding curriculum change in light of postmodern educational conditions.

Professor Freedman has co-authored a book titled Postmodern Art Education: An Approach to Curriculum, a book titled Transforming Computer Technology, and co-edited the book Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education. She has authored the book Teaching Visual Culture and is working on a new book, with co-author Doug Boughton, on elementary school art education, which will be published by McGraw Hill.

In addition, Dr. Freedman has published over 70 articles and book chapters on art, education, and technology, including articles in the International Encyclopedia of Education, Studies in Art Education, Educational Technology Research and Development, Art Education, Journal of Research on Computing in Education, and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. She has done over 100 national and international presentations and has been a visiting professor and Fulbright scholar at several overseas universities.

Professor Freedman has provided significant leadership through important service roles. She has served on many editorial boards and is currently the Senior Editor of Studies in Art Education, the research journal of the National Art Education Association. She was elected to the national Council for Policy Studies in Art Education and has won the Leon Jackman Award (the Australian national award for distinguished research in art education). In 2000, she was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association.

e-mail kfreedman@niu.edu