Making Artistic Learning Visible: Theory Building Through A/r/tographical Exploration
Format
Title
Making Artistic Learning Visible: Theory Building Through A/r/tographical Exploration
Creator
Amy Ruopp;
Kathy Unrath
Kathy Unrath
Date
Winter 2019
Abstract
I do not seek, I find.
—Picasso
If art educators are going to teach to meet the needs of the 21st-century learner and an ever-changing global society, art education needs to move beyond teaching content and embrace creativity, process, and ideation as interdependent components in teaching and learning art. Communicating and teaching the complexities of ideation and process are critical for reading and engaging an increasingly visual world. This article offers insights into how multimodal reflection in action and on action intersecting with rhizomatic thinking creates conditions for paradigm shifts about identity and conceptualizations of creative knowledge acquisition with pre-service art education students. By capturing the multimodal moments of their own creating through video format, a layered text capturing material, action, voice, intention, and reflection emerges to make process visible. Pre-service teachers entering the field of art education cognizant of their epistemology and the "how" of knowledge construction not only empower their students as active learners but are also living advocates for art education.
—Picasso
If art educators are going to teach to meet the needs of the 21st-century learner and an ever-changing global society, art education needs to move beyond teaching content and embrace creativity, process, and ideation as interdependent components in teaching and learning art. Communicating and teaching the complexities of ideation and process are critical for reading and engaging an increasingly visual world. This article offers insights into how multimodal reflection in action and on action intersecting with rhizomatic thinking creates conditions for paradigm shifts about identity and conceptualizations of creative knowledge acquisition with pre-service art education students. By capturing the multimodal moments of their own creating through video format, a layered text capturing material, action, voice, intention, and reflection emerges to make process visible. Pre-service teachers entering the field of art education cognizant of their epistemology and the "how" of knowledge construction not only empower their students as active learners but are also living advocates for art education.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Journal Title
Visual Arts Research
Journal Volume & Issue
vol. 45, no. 2
Subject Terms
reflection; a/r/tography; identity; creativity; rhizome
Page Range
29-48
Peer-Reviewed
Yes
URL/Website
Collection
Citation
Amy Ruopp; Kathy Unrath, “Making Artistic Learning Visible: Theory Building Through A/r/tographical Exploration,” CCS Research Repository, accessed December 7, 2024, https://omeka.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/items/show/12.
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