Andrea Zakin

Andrea Zakin is an artist and an educator. She is the author of numerous articles on art education that focus on the cognitive dimensions of artistic process, aesthetic education, and art in an integrated curriculum. Selected publications include “Exploring Relationships Between Aesthetic Education and Writing Across the Curriculum Using Poetry” in Across the Disciplines (co-authored, 2009), “Wordless Picture Books in Teacher Education: Entrée to Language and Imagination” in Excelsior (co-authored, 2009); “On Being Seduced: The Taste of a Sugar Buzz” in Senses and Society (2008), “Metacognition and the Use of Inner Speech in Children’s Thinking: A Tool Teachers Can Use” in Scientific Journals International (2007) and “Inner Speech: A Neglected Pedagogical Tool” in Academic Exchange Quarterly (2007).

Andrea Zakin holds a Ph.D. from NYU and is an Assistant Professor at Lehman College, The City University of New York, where she teaches art and art education. Her dissertation focused on cognitive processing in artistic process. Current research investigates teaching for tolerance through art. She has served as an arts program evaluator and staff developer for city and state agencies and organizations. Her artwork investigates interconnections between the underlying meaning of myths and fairytales and themes in everyday life.

I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.  My B.A. in Anthropology was completed at the University of Arizona, and I received my MA Degree and PhD in Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.