New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles

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