Current Research
Rita Crocker Obelleiro is a doctoral student in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship. She uses arts-based research to investigate collaboration and community-building in the secondary art classroom, with the focus on hidden curriculum as the negative space that impacts the push and pull of the teaching and learning experience. For more on Value Creation see:
Goulah, J. (2021). Value creation and value-creating education in the work of Daisaku Ikeda, Josei Toda, and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.
Examples for Art as Activism, a course designed for students at Phillips Academy Andover. What knowledge helps us to be better human beings for ourselves and others? Students chose: learning how to change a diaper (far left), gardening (left), reusing what we discard (right), making dumplings and basic cooking skills (far right).
