Subversive identities at the art museum: An ESL university student's experience at the National Gallery of Canada.

Art education became interwoven with cultural mediation when a university-level English language certification class was taken on a field trip to the National Gallery of Canada. This article focuses on one ESL student who locates her subversive identity as she engages with and interprets an artwork in an interview. This student's memorable, affective, and intimately personal thoughts and feelings, as we shall see, expose the semiotic and pedagogical importance of employing strategies that honour students' identities and lived experiences. The authors call for more research in what they refer to as 'critical ESL art museum education'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]