1stDraft Action Research Proposal Online Collaboration and Social Justice: Art Education for Social Change through New Media This research project considers the effectiveness of a collaborative mentorship model of social justice art education to bridge cultural divides through the creation and beta-testing of a collaborative, generative, art making application and social media platform. And, through […]
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AED 815 – Exploration 5 – Embodied Sculpted Analysis
AED 815 – Exploration 5 – Embodied Sculpted Analysis While reading Souto-Manning’s 2011 article, Playing with power and privilege: Theatre games in teacher education, I was struck by how much self-reflection was stimulated by utilizing Augusto Boal’s theater games exercises. Her research was conducted in a group environment, specifically a group of pre-practice teachers. One […]
AED 815 – Exploration 4 – Layered Analysis – Part 2- A Day In The Life
A Day In The Life Problem Statement Through a collaborative visual inquiry into my own studio practice, I, as collaborative mentor will use strategies that expose diversity issues in a classroom of upper level high school art students during the process of students creating individual work to become a collective installation. The final product […]
AED 815 Exploration 4 – Layered Analysis – Part 1 – Story Constellations
LAYER 1 – Coding to Disassemble and Reassemble I identified my codes by utilizing art verbiage. I feel that a student is to a teacher what a piece of art is to an artist and that a pedagogical practice can be regarded as just an extension of a studio art practice. MODE (highlighted in yellow) […]
AED 815 – Exploration 3 – Narrative Inquiry – Blog Entry 3
Below is a sound story pieced together from a recent interview with my mom, cassette recordings of my mom and myself as a child, and excerpts from an NPR piece on the subject. Please have a listen and then take a look at the photos to enhance the experience. Spoiler alert: If you scroll through […]
AED 815 – Exploration 2 – Arts-based research – Blog Entry 2
Collaborative visual inquiry is an ideal tool through which to activate social change. On Page 4 of Arts-based Research as Social Justice Activism (2011), Keifer-Boyd notes, “ It may be that arts-based inquiry offers visual language forms that crack the hermetic seal of hegemonic perceptions.” In other words, visual language can transcend cultural and socio-economic […]
AED 815 – Critical Action Research -Emerging Researcher Blog Entry 1
Part 1 – Discussion of Action Research Action research can be described as a methodical and self-reflecting review conducted in order to “understand, improve and reform practice” (Klein, 2012, p.1, as cited in Cohen, Manion, & Morrison, 2007, p. 297). It is an empowering bottom-up approach that can generate new ideas over time by keeping […]