Assistant Professor

Art and Visual Culture Education

BA University of Pennsylvania, MA University of Arizona, PhD Penn State University

Marissa McClure has taught at the elementary and preschool levels throughout the United States in urban and rural schools and museums as an art teacher, a reading teacher, and as a general classroom teacher. As a researcher and teacher, she is interested in contemporary and historical theories of child art; constructions of childhood; children and visual and media culture; children as individual and group learners; relationships between art, play, learning, and teaching; critical theory in art education theory and practice; early childhood education; and pedagogical documentation as research methodology. In particular, she has studied the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education and its ateliers and received a grant from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University to participate in an international study group in Reggio Emilia. She has presented and published at and in various national and international conferences, journals, and texts. She currently serves as president-elect of the Early Childhood Issues Group of the National Art Education Association.

e-mail: mam3@email.arizona.edu
office: 520.626.0419

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