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Congdon 2008-2009 University of Central Florida Volumes 28,29 Dipti Desai 2010-2012 New York University jCRAE 2012/2013 Volume 30 Contents Editorial 8 Elizabeth Garber Superhero Comic Books as Frameworks of 10 Inclusivity and Advocacy for Youth with Disabilities Valerie L. Karr and Courtney L. Weida Taiwanese Undergraduates’ Digital Story Quests for 32 Art Treasures in Second Life Mary Stokrocki and Jin-Shiow Chen Public Culture and Heritage: A Beijing Based Field 60 School Doug Blandy and John Fenn “How Will You Do This?” Infusing 83 Multiculturalism Throughout Art Teacher Education Programs Joni Boyd Acuff Examining Fair Trade as an Art Education 103 Opportunity Amanda Alexander, Connie DeJong, Jen Miller, and James Sanders III Asian Immigrant Women’s Emotional Reflection on 127 Artworks Kyungeun Lim Editorial Introduction Amanda Alexander, Connie DeJong, Jen Miller, and Jim Sanders. Elizabeth Garber Using a dialogical approach, they engage undergraduates in learning about social and environmental justice through a local gallery that Is the Tower of Babel to be understood as a curse upon humankind promotes Fair Trade. Kyeungeun Lim explores the experience of or as a wealth of diversity? In art and visual culture education, Asian immigrant women accompanying their spouses for study in were we to discuss it, the latter interpretation would prevail, for we the US. Through showing the women a series of western and home have a long and deep engagement with valuing diverse cultures country artworks, she reflects on the women’s empathetic responses and differences among individuals, and working for social and to the artworks, noting various connections her participants make educational change that will promote social justice. This issue between their lives and the images. of Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (jCRAE) continues We launch the 2012/2013 edition of the journal as an online, this rich heritage, with articles ranging from empowering youth open source publication. The move supports wide access to the experiencing disability to a self-examination of teaching multicultural research and ideas brought forth by the authors, as well as a more art education to experiences of immigrant women, and from bases in environmentally friendly approach to journal publication. Both these the US, Syria, China, and Taiwan. Each of the authors works for social objectives are in keeping with the spirit of jCRAE. justice through education, envisioning another step towards social transformation. The authors use field-based methodologies, bringing Thanks go out to many people for bringing this issue together. Thanks readers teaching and learning experiences from classrooms, a field to authors for submitting your work to the journal, to the jCRAE school, a gallery, and interviews. Review Board for working insightfully and diligently to review articles and respond to various queries, to the USSEA Board for their Valerie Karr and Courtney Weida ask what happens when educators support of the journal and its switch to online publication, and to the bring youth from Syria and the US together to advocate for disability past editorial team of Dipti Desai and Kate Brideau for help in the rights as a human rights issue. Through the creation of comic books, transition between editors. Agradecimientos y gratitud to Ryan Shin the youth promote their own empowerment as well as awareness for designing the online platform for the journal and launching the in readers of disability rights. Mary Stokrocki and Jin-Shiow Chen jcrae.org interface, to Jorge Lucero for designing the jCRAE logo, to examine how digital stories based on artworks can be developed as Kelly Leslie for designing the layout of this issue, and to Erica Richard personal narratives in Second Life. Working with Taiwanese college who has kept editor, reviewers, and authors in communication as well students, they note teaching strategies used and themes that emerged as followed through with the template that Kelly laid out. Finally, from assignments involving this virtual world. Doug Blandy and John thank you to our patient readers who have waited across the many Fenn explore strategies to deeply engage western learners in cultural changes the journal has undergone since volume 29, and to all readers understanding while at a field school in Beijing. They do so across who join our community through their commitment to social justice disciplines, geographies, cultures, and technologies. Looking at her in the arts and education. Junto/as (pero no revuelto/as), lo hicimos own teaching, Joni Acuff weaves multicultural principles across the realidad. content of an art methods course for pre-service teachers. Through this exploration, she develops a critical platform for classroom engagement of the ideals of diversity in social justice. Fair Trade in a globalized world is under scrutiny in the contribution of authors | 8 | Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education Vol. 30 2012/13 | 9 | Superhero Comic Books as Frameworks of Inclusivity villains representing issues related to disability awareness. This and Advocacy for Youth With Disabilities1 artistic