This intensive professional development opportunity featured a year-long exploration of Muslim cultures through music, dance, and dramatic performances during the 2016-17 Carolina Performing Arts season, integrated with readings, scholarship, discussion, and pedagogy. This project aimed to deepen teachers’ understanding of global Islam through a cultural arts perspective while dispelling misconceptions and encouraging culturally responsible teaching in the K-12 classroom.
Fellows first attended an orientation workshop August 4-5, 2016 at UNC-Chapel Hill featuring sessions led by Teaching Tolerance. They then attended up to 6 performances throughout the 2016-2017 Carolina Performing Arts season while engaging with readings, scholars and artists.
The lessons below were created by the GIAT fellows for teaching about global Islam. Click the link to download lessons and accompanying materials:
- The Art of Faith, Carla Ingram
- Book of Islamic Arts, Kathleen Peck | PowerPoint: Book of Islamic Arts
- Contemporary Islamic Graffiti-The New Illuminated Manuscript, Anita Rubino | PowerPoint: Islamic Graffiti | PowerPoint: Islamic Illuminated Manuscripts
- Deconstructing Stereotypes Related to Islam and Muslims, Holly Loranger | PowerPoint: Deconstructing Stereotypes Related to Islam and Muslims
- Exploring Indonesian Culture through Gamelan Music, Janae Copeland | PowerPoint: Exploring Indonesian Culture through Gamelan Music
- Five Pillars of Islam- Practice, Survival, Resistance and Adaption from Africa to the Americas, William Giblin
- Humanizing the ‘Other’ in Shakespeare’s Plays, Valerie Person
- Immigration During the 19th & 20th Century, Jennifer Harris | PowerPoint: Immigration Foldable
- A Journey through Medieval Dar al-Islam, Jennifer Earnest
- The Impact of the Silk Road and Islam on World History, Tinisha Shaw
- Power of Poetry- Sufi Poets, Past to Present, Elizabeth McKinley
- Reframing Islam through Sufi Art in Senegal, Jessical Grinnell
- Saman Dance of Indonesia, Marie Hopkins | PowerPoint: Saman Dance of Indonesia
- Traditions, Christine Zaccardi
- Using Drama to Address Social Justice Issues, Mia Malesovas
The Global Islam and the Arts Teacher Fellows:
Janae Copeland | Stateside Elementary School, Onslow County Schools
Jennifer Earnest | Fuquay-Varina High School, Wake County Public Schools
William Giblin | Grey Culbreth Middle School, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Jessie Grinnell | Grey Culbreth Middle School, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Jennie Harris | Red Oak Middle School, Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools
Marie Hopkins | Club Boulevard Elementary, Durham Public Schools
Carla Ingram | South Caldwell High School, Caldwell County Schools
Holly Loranger | Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Mia Malesovas | Lucy Ragsdale High School, Guilford County Public Schools
Elizabeth McKinley | West Brunswick High School, Brunswick County Schools
Kathleen Peck | West Brunswick High School, Brunswick County Schools
Valerie Person | Currituck County High School, Currituck County Schools
Anita Rubino | Currituck County High School, Currituck County Schools
Tinisha Shaw | Early Middle College at Bennett, Guilford County Public Schools
Christine Zaccardi | Fox Road Elementary, Wake County Public Schools
Check out the Storify from the Fellows’ orientation workshop, August 4-5, 2016 by clicking here!
The Global Islam & the Arts Teacher Fellows Program is a collaboration between the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Carolina K-12, UNC African Studies Center, Carolina Performing Arts, Carolina Asia Center and funded by the Warren A. Nord Endowment for Teachers, the Chancellor’s Global Education Fund (UNC Global and the College of Arts & Sciences), the Carolina Asia Center, and the UNC Department of Religious Studies, with additional support from a Title VI Grant from the Department of Education.