ABSTRACT
Long before the term art education was coined, scholars and artists asked questions about what constitutes beauty in art; what is the nature of the relationship between culture and society; and what does a work of art say about the artist, the audience, time and place, culture and politics. The purpose of responding in the media arts classroom is significant, as it provides an opportunity for teachers and students to explore these issues. This chapter focuses on Ms. Cage providing her students with an opportunity to develop responding literacies by inviting them to critically engage with a variety of media texts, respond to these texts, to the concepts from classroom instruction, to classmates' creative work, and ultimately to each other. Ms. Cage provides a simple demonstration of how people might facilitate responding literacies in media arts education, through class discussion, creative production, and self-reflection.
