UCLA Ed&IS Magazine: Access to High Quality Arts Education
Q&A with Lindsay Lindberg, UCLA doctoral student researcher and president-elect of the California Dance Education Association, discusses the future of K-12 arts education for the teacher workforce, students, and school culture.
Lindsay Lindberg’s experiences as a graduate student researcher at UCLA have led her to discover many connections between the sciences and the arts. While STEM and STEAM have been elements in Lindberg’s work, art—dance in particular—was always at the foundation of it. Today, as president-elect of the California Dance Education Association, Lindberg (’10, B.A., World Arts and Cultures/Dance) looks forward with her teaching colleagues to the advent of a new era of arts education state- wide after the passing of Proposition 28.
Lindberg, a former K–12 dance educator, and consultant, and facilitator of numerous professional development workshops for teachers, discusses her hope that Prop. 28 will alleviate the burden upon classroom teachers to give their students a minimum level of arts education with a new workforce of arts educators based at their own schools; improve school cultures with a rounded understanding of the world for both students and their community; and further social justice in public education by affording all students life-changing experiences in the arts.
Read the full story in the Winter issue of UCLA Ed&IS Magazine.