AED 815 – Exploration 6 – Reciprocal-Reflexivity – 1st Draft Research Proposal

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 […]

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 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 […]