Research Interests
Roberta Bennett is a public school art teacher from Illinois. She has learned from teaching in various settings that regardless of where one teaches, the performance of teacher is always constrained by the policies of the place. Her research interests include standards based assessment, social emotional learning inherent in visual arts education, the social economy of the art world, whiteness theory, reproduction of cultural capital, object oriented ontology, and, most specifically, art that looks like agricultural practices. Marshall McCluhan described “art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” When artists blur these boundaries, what does that mean for society and the eventual solidification of these trends into educational policy?