Teaching+Tolerance

Offered in partnership with the [|South Asia Language and Area Center] at the University of Chicago
 * Teaching Tolerance—Jitish Kallat's //Public Notice 3//**
 * Teacher Workshop**
 * Saturday, March 12, 2011**




 * Objectives of the Workshop:**
 * To explore how integrating contemporary art into school learning can provoke curiosity in students and encourage dialogue about the world and the issues that affect our lives.
 * To discover ways of discussing issues of identity, diversity, and tolerance with students through works of art.
 * To learn about cultural, religious, and political aspects of South Asia today by viewing and discussing the work of contemporary artist Jitish Kallat.
 * To understand the challenges and opportunities involved in teaching about religion and religious difference in K-12 schools.
 * To think about globalization from a historical perspective by comparing and connecting events from the past with events occurring today.
 * To become aware of resources available through the Art Institute and the South Asia Center at the University of Chicago.

__**Themes for Curriculum Development/ Ideas for Small Group Brainstorming Sessions:**__

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 * Tolerance and Global Citizenship**
 * Understanding ones own identity and relationships with others
 * How do you define tolerance vs. acceptance?
 * Building religious literacy/understanding of diversity of religious traditions
 * Chicago as a global city past and present
 * Learning about contemporary cultures in different regions of the world


 * Text as Art**
 * The power of words/speech made material
 * Site-specific installation- inscribing words in a public place
 * How the content and form/placement of the text together convey meaning
 * Comparing Jitish Kallat to other artists who have used text (such as Jenny Holzer)
 * Empowering students to make their voices heard about issues that matter to them


 * RESOURCES**

Read about Jitish Kallat's installation [|//Public Notice 3//] at the Art Institute. Read Swami Vivekananda's [|original 1893 speech]. Watch a [|video] interview with Jitish Kallat or read his [|blog post] about //Public Notice 3//. [|See more photos] of //Public Notice 3//. Visit [|Jitish Kallat's website]
 * Suggested Resources** **on Jitish Kallat**

//**Solo Exhibition Catalogues**// Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3, // The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. (forthcoming) // Jitish Kallat: The Lie of the Land//, Walsh Gallery, Chicago. (2004) //

//**Group Exhibition Catalogues**//

Chalo! India A New Era of Indian Art. // Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna. (2009) // Indian Highway, // Serpentine Gallery, London. (2008) // New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India.// Edited by Betty Seid. Chicago: Chicago Cultural Center. (2007) //

India: Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art. //Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum. (2007)// Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis//. London: Tate Modern. Curators: Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha. (2001) //

//**Articles**// //Viera, Lauren. “Sept 11 1893, 2001 and today.”// Chicago Tribune//, September 9, 2010. // //Geilert, Gerald. “The Astronomy of the Subway: Jitish Kallat in London.”// Artconcerns.com//. June-July 2010. []. // //Ramanath, Renu.// “The Empire Strikes Back and Jitish Kallat in London.” Art Concerns (Feb-March 2010) [] // “Jitish Kallat.” //Asian Art Newspaper//. (February 2010).[| http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/article/jitish-kallat.]// //Davis, Brendan. Interview with Jitish Kallat.// ART interview – Online Magazine//. Germany, February 5, 2010. [] //

// Cocteau, Jean. “Jitish Kallat: An exclusive electronic interview.” //C Arts: Asian Contemporary Arts and Culture//. (14 August 2009). []//


 * Suggested Resources on the World’s Parliament of Religions/Parliament of World Religions**

__Primary Sources:__ []- a good interactive website showing the historical trajectory of the Parliament and its shifting concerns over time

Barrow, John Henry, The World’s Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the World’s First Parliament of Religions, Held in Chicago in Connection with the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Company, 1893

Hans Küng and Karl-Josef Kuschel, editors, A Global Ethic: The Declaration of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, New York: Continuum Press, 1993.

Seager, Richard Hughes, editor, The Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World’s Parliament of Religions, New York: Open Court Publications, 1993.

[] - the online version of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda – this particular weblink will take you to the page in which you can read Vivekananda’s addresses to the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions verbatim

__Secondary Sources:__ [] - Dr. K. L. Nichols (professor at Pittsburg State University) has created a very good website and list of web-links to other websites about the Columbian Exposition (in general)

Seager, Richard Hughes, The World’s Parliament of Religions: the East/West Encounter, Chicago 1893, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

__Fiction:__ Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, New York: Vintage Books, 2004.


 * Suggested Resources on Teaching about Tolerance and Religious Diversity**

A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that seeks to help students learn respect for differences by providing educators with classroom activities, teaching kits, a magazine, and many other resources. By conducting a source for resources, visitors to the website can explore over 100 activities related to the teaching of tolerance in the classroom.
 * Teaching Tolerance**
 * []**

[] This website describes the Respect Diversity Holocaust Art Education Project, a combination of talks and workshops designed to teach students respect for diversity and tolerance. Students learn how the Holocaust is relevant to their lives, and they collaborate on a variety of visual arts projects designed to promote unity.
 * Respect Diversity Foundation**

[] The Diversity Council is an organization that aims to create an inclusive community by embracing diversity. This section of their website displays a collection of activities, lesson plans, and other resources for elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
 * Diversity Council**

[|http://www.itvs.org/educators/lesson-plans] A lesson plan and activity on “Religious Tolerance in America,” supplied by Community Classroom, an effort by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to offer media resources to educators in high schools and other youth-serving organizations. Suited for high school and college students, these lesson plans primarily focus on addressing tolerance through music.
 * Community Classroom**

[] An extensive list of arts-based activities, reference materials, and lesson plans that address the concept of tolerance.
 * Humanity Quest**

[| http://www.eduref.org/index.shtml] A lesson plan for high school teachers that discusses religious freedom and aims to encourage open-mindedness and critical thinking in students.
 * The Educator’s Reference Desk**

[] Written by Anshu Wahi of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, this article explores the prospect of teaching religion in a secular classroom.
 * Religion and the Secular Classroom**