Integrating Feminist Pedagogy with Online Teaching: Facilitating Critiques of Patriarchal Visual Culture

Alice Lai, Ph.D., is associate professor of the arts and educational studies at Empire State College, State University of New York, where she also chairs the Center for Distance Learning’s undergraduate program in the arts. Her research spans the areas of critical multicultural art education, critical pedagogy, visual culture studies, and distance education. Her publications have appeared in Studies in Art Education, Art Education, and Pedagogy.

Lilly (Li-Fen) Lu, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art education at Northern Illinois University. With a background in Instructional Technology, her research focuses on integrating emerging technology into art education and digital visual culture. Her specialty areas include virtual worlds pedagogy and research methodology, online distance education and communities of practice, and technology in teacher education. Lilly is currently working on the research grant “Art Café @ Second Life,†awarded by National Art Education Foundation (2008-2009), to explore and develop the virtual pedagogies and investigate “virtual†visual culture for 21st century art education. Recent selected publications include: “Art Café: A 3D Virtual Learning Environment for Art Education†in Art Education (2008) and “Knowledge Construction in In-service Teacher Online Discourse: Impacts of Instructor Roles and Facilitative Strategies in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (2006).

Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to the authors at Alice.Lai@esc.edu and lillylu26@gmail.com