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Sara Scott Shields

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

Associate Professor

Department of Art Education

Sara Scott Shields, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Art Education at The Florida State University. She received her BFA in Ceramics and Art Education and her MaED in Art Education from East Carolina University, later receiving her PhD in Art Education from The University of Georgia after teaching high school art for six years. While at UGA she received an outstanding teaching award and achieved additional certification in interdisciplinary qualitative studies.

Dr. Shields has taught at the secondary and college level for 14 years and recently received the Southeastern Higher Educator of the Year award from the National Art Education Association and Higher Educator of the Year award from the Florida Art Education Association. She has presented and published at the state, national, and international level. Her research and curriculum development is focused on the integration of visual journaling, contemporary art, community and personal histories, and how these might work together to create unique opportunities for art educators and students to engage in civically minded and socially just educative encounters.

Education

PhD, University of Georgia. Major: Art. Art Education
Supervisor: Dr. Tracie Costantino.

MAEd, East Carolina University. Major: Art Education
Supervisor: Dr. Alice Arnold.

BFA, East Carolina University. Major: Art Education and Ceramics
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy House and Seo Eo.

Teaching Areas

Art Education Theory and Practice II (ARE5047)
Contemporary and Historical Issues in Art Education (ARE5246)
Arts-Based Research (ARE5935)
Qualitative Research (ARE5935)
Research Survey (ARE5745)
Student Teaching in Art (ARE5940)
Professional Practices Seminar (ARE5950)

Research Areas

Interdisciplinary art education, civically engaged art education, arts-based educational research, practitioner research, curriculum and pedagogy, visual journaling, teacher education

Select Scholarly/Creative Works & Awards

  • Shields, S. S., Fendler, R., & Henn, D. (2020). A Vision of Civically Engaged Art Education: Teens as Arts-Based Researchers. Studies in Art Education, 61(2), 123-141.
  • Fendler, R., Shields, S. S., & Henn, D. (2020). # thefutureisnow: A Model for Civically Engaged Art Education. Art Education, 73(5), 10-15.
  • Powell, K., & Shields, S. S. (2019). Quotidian Practices and the Ways of Art. Visual Arts Research, 45(1), 125-129.
  • Filiault, D., Gerardi, D., Aguirre, R., & Shields, S. S. (2019). Graduate student identity: negotiating the academic and creative through resistance or conformity. Visual Inquiry, 8(1), 25-39.
  • Wilson, G. J., & Shields, S. S. (2019). Troubling the “WE” in art education: Slam poetry as subversive duoethnography. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 39(1), 2.
  • Southeastern Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year, National Art Education Association (2019).
  • Florida Higher Education Art Educator of the Year, Florida Art Education Association (2018).
  • University Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee, Florida State University (2017).
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, FSU College of Fine Arts (2016).