A Shared Place of Discovery and Creativity: Practices of Contemporary Art and Design Pedagogy |
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Authors: | Tara Page |
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Affiliation: | Lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London where she is the programme leader for the MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices and contributes to the Secondary Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Art and Design. |
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Abstract: | This article is based on a project that explored the practices of art and design beginning teachers (BTs) working with learners in a post‐age‐16 context. The aim of the project was to: explore contemporary art and design practices; explore the concept of artist teacher learner researcher; enable beginning teachers to collaborate with post‐age‐16 pupils and develop new approaches and strategies to art and design pedagogy. Through practices that blurred learner‐teacher identities a dialectical pedagogy emerged and a collaborative community of practice developed, all enabled through a renegotiation and reconceptualising of places of learning. The beginning teachers also started to construct their artist teacher identities, understand what it means to practise as an artist teacher in the classroom, understand the impact of these practices on teaching and learning and develop new learning and teaching methods. This project demonstrates the possibilities of these practices for contemporary art and design pedagogy and also how these practices can endure and be sustainable for this community of beginning teachers in the current cultural, social and political contexts of education. |
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Keywords: | critical pedagogy contemporary art and design practice artist teacher identity collaboration place |
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