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International Journal of Education Through Art - Volume 12, Issue 2, 2016
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2016
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Beyond museum walls: Visual narratives through images and history
More LessAbstractThis article presents the analysis of visual narratives produced by 13–14-year-old students after visiting a historical exhibition at Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Our goal was to understand which memories and reflections remained latent after the educational visit. In order to do so, we proceeded with a follow-up activity at the school the students attend. The discussion we propose concerning the relationship between image and history was mainly introduced by Burke, whereas Hooper-Greenhill focused on the images in a history museum context. Furthermore, we analyse to what extent a display designed 90 years ago can impact the production of these students. In addition, there was considerable effort by the museum educators to help them develop critical interpreting skills. The idea of ‘real learning’ of Atkinson also contributed to my considerations on the students’ work.
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Learning bodies engaging with art: Staging aesthetic experiences in museum education
More LessAbstractHow can we stimulate encounters between students and artworks that are both sensuous, meaningful and transformational? How can we involve students’ bodies in aesthetic experiences in art museums? Inspired by Richard Shusterman the article focuses on three dimensions of the aesthetic experience: the phenomenological, the semantic and the transformational. Together with Judith Butler’s concepts of performativity and performance, these notions are used to discuss the role of ‘the learning body’ in three case studies carried out in art museums over a ten-year period. The study sheds light on how the concept of aesthetic experience can be used for understanding the pedagogical value of encounters between young people and contemporary art. Another aim is to show how the body as locus for aesthetic experiences can challenge traditional understandings of the learning body and to discuss how to develop performative forms of art education that actively involves students’ bodies.
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Patterns of awareness – preschool teachers’ integration of art and mathematics
Authors: Eva Ahlskog-Björkman and Camilla BjörklundAbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate how preschool teachers reason about art in thematic work where art and mathematics are integrated. Specific research questions were: how do teachers reason about learning goals in thematic work and what meaning do art and aesthetics contribute to children’s learning? Data for analysis were collected from a digitally distributed questionnaire that was answered by 27 participants from Finland and Sweden. Participants were selected from preschool teacher networks and from municipalities’ official websites of preschool staff. The method for analysis was explorative and inductive, as we condensed meaning from the written answers. A meta-analysis revealed that art and aesthetics appear mainly as a means for children’s learning of other knowledge areas or as experiences bearing their own values. In contrast, the analysis also revealed that integration of art and mathematics may contribute to the learning of both knowledge contents, for deeper and conceptual learning.
Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur lärare i daghem och förskola resonerar om skapande i temaarbete där skapande och matematik är integrerat. Forskningsfrågorna var: hur resonerar lärare om lärandemål i temaarbete och vilken betydelse bidrar skapande och estetik med för barns lärande? Data samlades in genom ett digitalt frågeformulär som besvarades av 27 deltagare från Finland och Sverige. Deltagarna kontaktades via lärarnätverk och kommuners officiella websidor över personal i förskola och daghem. Analysmetoden var explorativ och induktiv, vilket innebar kondensering av mening uttryckt i de textbaserade svaren. En meta-analys visade att skapande och estetik förekommer främst som medel för barns lärande av andra kunskapsområden eller som upplevelser med egna värden. Som kontrast visade analysen också att integrering av skapande och matematik kan bidra till lärande inom båda kunskapsområdena med fördjupat kunnande och begreppsligt lärande som följd.
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Knowing me knowing you: Enhancing emotional literacy through visual arts
More LessAbstractThis article presents Enhancing Emotional Literacy through Visual Arts (ELVA) an innovative approach, developed by The Dax Centre, incorporating visual arts and mental health for primary school students. ELVA, beginning as a five-year project, and funded though a philanthropic grant, is the result of the collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary advisory group of teachers, child psychotherapists, psychiatrists and art therapists, is lead by a project manager and overseen by the Director of the Dax Centre. Through an examination of ELVA’s theoretical frame and its unique experientially based teacher professional learning component, this article will highlight the contribution ELVA offers to existing well-being and visual arts approaches in schools. It will also present the findings of an independent evaluation of the initial pilot phase of ELVA.
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The landscape of websites for art education and a portrait of their designers
More LessAbstractThe increasing visit numbers for art teaching and learning-related websites indicated that websites have become an indispensible resource and information provider for art learners and teachers. In this study, I sought answers to questions such as what websites were art learners and teachers using? What technologies were used by these websites? Who built these websites? Why did they build these websites? What expectations did these website builders have for their audiences? I shared over 70 art teaching and learning-related websites, and had 33 of them evaluated by 57 research participants using a seven-part coding scheme. On the basis of the evaluation survey results, I interviewed four website builders/owners. The top-rated websites were shared and discussed, focusing on website builders’ motivations, overall purposes, their expectations towards the websites, as well as their technological applications in their websites.
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Mobilities, aesthetics and civic engagement: Getting at-risk youth to look at their communities
Authors: David Pariser, Juan Carlos Castro and Martin LalondeAbstractThis article describes a mobile media art curriculum for engaging at-risk students with their schooling and with civic engagement. The pilot study was conducted with at-risk youth who were seeking their high school diplomas. The curriculum encouraged participants to use mobile media in school and outside. Students examined aspects of their neighbourhoods and sometimes explored themes suggested by the workshop leader. Data consisted of participants’ images, their posts and interview responses. We noted that civic engagement grew out of participants’ initial interest in, and concern for, the formal, technical and aesthetic aspects of their images. Our participants recognized that, if an image is well made, it will be that much more effective in communicating its civic message. In this article, we will consider the primacy of the aesthetic as a promising principle for developing curricula that reorient at-risk youth.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Marni J. Binder, Harold Pearse and Julia LockheartAbstractArts-Based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching: Honoring Presence, Susan Walsh, Barbara Bickel and Carl Leggo (eds) (2015) New York: Routledge, 190 pp., ISBN: 9780415743877, h/bk, $160USD
Art Education in Germany, Georg Peez (ed.) (2015) Munster and New York: Waxmann, 154 pp., ISBN: 9783830932659, p/bk, €24.90
Doctoral Writing in the Creative and Performing Arts, Louise Ravelli, Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield (eds) (2014) Faringdon: Libri Publishing, 440 pp., ISBN: 9781909818477, p/bk, £21.00
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 20 (2024)
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Volume 19 (2023)
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Volume 18 (2022)
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Volume 17 (2021)
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Volume 16 (2020)
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Volume 15 (2019)
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Volume 14 (2018)
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Volume 13 (2017 - 2018)
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Volume 12 (2016)
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Volume 11 (2015)
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Volume 10 (2014)
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Volume 9 (2013)
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Volume 8 (2012)
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Volume 7 (2011)
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Volume 6 (2010)
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Volume 5 (2009)
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Volume 4 (2008)
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Volume 3 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 2 (2006)
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Volume 1 (2005)