Photomontage and Surrational Imagery: One Teacher’s Encounter with Scott Mutter

  • Jeff Spanke Purdue University

Abstract

The crafted photomontages of Scott Mutter and and the obvious manipulations of "Choose your own adventure" provide the stimuli that enable a group of students to begin creating new schema for viewing, and thus become agents of their own meaning making.

Author Biography

Jeff Spanke, Purdue University
Jeff Spanke is a doctoral student in English Education at Purdue University. After earning a Master's in American Studies, Jeff taught high school English in Crawfordsville, Indiana for several years. Currently he serves as a composition instructor at Purdue and is a research assistant in Purdue's Gifted Education Resource Institute. His personal research interests include adolescent critical literacy development, public pedagogy, and service-learning's intersections with the Language Arts classroom. His wife and he live in West Lafayette, Indiana along with their two year-old son and a bountiful squirrel population.
Section
The Tortoise's Tale