Graduate Study in Curriculum & Instruction • The Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture • Texas A&M University

b. stephen carpenter, II

 

B. Stephen Carpenter, II, teaches courses in creative inquiry in early childhood education, curriculum development, curriculum theory, visual culture pedagogy, and art education. In 2005 and 2006 he was a visiting assoicate professor at the Summer Leadership Academy at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Prior to his university positions, Carpenter was an elementary, special education, and high school art teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Steve Carpenter is the author of journal articles and book chapters on art education and visual culture, hypertext curriculum theory and design, cultural studies through visual inquiry, and ceramics criticism. His writing has appeared in Art & Antiques, Art Education, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Educational Leadership, The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, The Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Studies in Art Education, and Studio Potter. Carpenter is the co-author of Interdisciplinary Approaches to High School Art Education, and co-editor of Curriculum for a Progressive, Provocative, Poetic, and Public Pedagogy. He has been invited to speak nationally and internationally and has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and conference for art education and computer technology. His ceramics, mixed-media assemblages and installations, and performance artworks address issues of social justice and critique historical, cultural, and political constructs. In 2001 and 2003 his work appeared in the 3rd and 4th Biennale Internazionale dell’arte contemporanea (Florence Biennale) in Florence, Italy.

Carpenter is past editor of Art Education, the journal of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), an assistant editor for The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and a member of the editorial board of Studies in Art Education. He is president of the Seminar for Research in Art Education (NAEA), and a member of the NAEA Professional Materials Committee, the Council for Policy Studies in Art Education, and Professors of Curriculum.