New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles

Re-Fashioning Pedagogies

Ashley Bellet

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781003831372
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Theatergeschichte & -kritik

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive, global, practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history.

Costume designers, technicians, and historians have spent the last several years re-evaluating how they teach costume and fashion history, acknowledging the need to refocus the discourse to include a more global perspective. This book is a collection of pedagogical methods aimed to do just that, with an emphasis on easy reference, accessible activities, and rubrics, and containing a variety of ways to restructure the course. Each chapter offers a course description, syllabus calendar, course objectives, and learning outcomes, as well as sample activities from instructors across the country who have made major changes to their coursework. Using a combination of personal narratives, examples from their work, bibliographies of helpful texts, and student responses, contributors suggest a variety of ways to decolonize the traditionally Western-focused fashion history syllabus.

This collection of pedagogical approaches is intended to support and inspire instructors teaching costume design, costume history, fashion history, period styles, and other aesthetic histories in the arts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Cover Artist
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: New Perspectives and Taking Chances
• 1 Re-Fashioning Time: An Object-Based Approach to the History of Style
• 2 Research Methods for Fashion History and Technology
• 3 Conscious Fashion History
• 4 Fashion Forward: A History of Dress in Global Context
• 5 Global Dress History for Undergraduate General Education
• 6 Historic Costume and Décor Utilizing a People- and Place-Based Curriculum
• 7 An Abridged Clothing History in Four Construction Techniques
• 8 Examining and Creating Connections in Costume History Through Cultural Intersections and Alternative Assessment Models
• 9 Expanding and Deconstructing the Western Fashion History Ideology
• 10 Fashion and Costume: Global Adornment and Attire
• 11 The March of History Gives Way to Flowers in a Field
• 12 Activities for the Classroom
• Conclusion
• Index