scholarly journals Student Teachers Building a Sustainable Future Through Constructing Equality in Visual Arts Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Leena Knif ◽  
Seija Kairavuori
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Functional Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThis article presents a discussion about primary school visual arts education from the point of view of social sustainability and in the context of teacher education in Finland. The study focuses on the student teachers’ understanding and pedagogic thinking of the equality construction in visual arts. In this case study the research data comprises the learning portfolios of student teachers (N=25) from the visual arts teaching course at the University of Helsinki in which they designed and carried out pedagogical workshops of visual arts to promote equality. The data were examined with the methods of qualitative content analysis. In this context, the student teachers found engaging elements in the aims and practices of visual arts to be the way to enhance equality. Visual arts education was found to offer a functional space for enhancing the agency, social skills and values needed in a sustainable future.

scholarly journals Interrogando los sentidos de Identidad: Un encuentro entre subjetividades y retratos pictóricos del s. XIX en la Universidad

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
José Eugenio Rubilar Medina
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

This article is the culmination of a broader research project carried out with students of the Visual Arts Education degree, with whom we traced an exploratory drift to investigate the senses and notions that orbit the complex notion of Identity. Within the framework of this research, (still in development), I reconstruct what was a collaborative and inclusive experience of investigation, in which materiality (19th century portraits belonging to the collection of pictorial works of the University Museum) was inscribed as a mediating agent that allowed us to re-read concepts, notions, knowledge and desires in order to re-think and co-construct knowledge from the intersubjective at the University. In this exercise of reflexivity, situated and embodied, a distance is taken from the schemes of semiotic analysis ascribed to descriptive readings, nor are strategies of codification and categorization established that fragment, segment and theme the experiences of inquiry. This text is the unfolding of a trajectory where teachers and students open up to the possibility of exploring, creatively and from a sense of becoming, the very processes of identity subjectivization by attending to the encounters with materiality.

scholarly journals The cognitive aspect of interactive learning and teaching in visual arts education

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Zlata Tomljenović
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Cognitive Activities

The task of contemporary visual arts education is to enable quality interaction among all subjects of the teaching process, through which the students are encouraged to think, imagine, and develop higherorder cognitive activities. The objective of this empirical research study was to verify the differences in the results of students in the control and experimental groups (n=285) regarding their knowledge and understanding of visual arts content. Analysis of the results shows that the students in EG showed significantly better results compared to the students in CG, which means that the interactive model of learning and teaching positively influenced the students’ understanding of visual arts content.

scholarly journals Rural–Urban Disparity in Students’ Academic Performance in Visual Arts Education

SAGE Open ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401561252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Afia Amponsaa Opoku-Asare ◽  
Abena Okyerewa Siaw
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Arts Education

Second-career teachers’ workplace learning and learning at university

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Keck Frei ◽  
Mirjam Kocher ◽  
Christine Bieri Buschor
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Career Change ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine career-change student teachers’ practice-based learning in teacher training, with a special focus on the support they received. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a qualitative content analysis of 15 group interviews, including 58 career-change student teachers and focuses on their learning at university and the workplace. Findings This paper indicates that career-change student teachers’ learning is task-related and based on interactions. It benefits from the support provided by actors at the university and workplace. Their learning is highly self-regulated and built on skills from prior professional and life experience. However, behaviourist learning and trial-and-error learning strategies are more often mentioned than constructionist learning and goal-oriented learning. Practical implications The findings underline the fact that universities and schools can enhance career-change student teachers’ learning by providing professional support, helping them to form links between experience from their prior profession, as well as their knowledge acquired at the university and experience from the workplace. Originality/value Until now, few studies have addressed workplace learning in teacher education. The present study aims to address this lack. Moreover, the study shows how career-change student teachers deal with the challenge of bridging the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during practice-based teacher education.

scholarly journals Design of a sustainable polygeneration microgrid for the retrofitting of an industrial site: Ansaldo Energia case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 03009
Author(s):  
Enrico Bianchi ◽  
Stefano Bracco ◽  
Fabio Cannizzaro ◽  
Federico Delfino ◽  
Alessandro Giacchino
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
General Validity ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The University ◽  
Energy Infrastructures

The aim of this paper is that of proposing a methodology on how to design a microgrid for an industrial area. In particular, the paper reports the description of a project, jointly developed by the University of Genoa and Ansaldo Energia SpA, to design a polygeneration microgrid for the industrial site of Ansaldo Energia company in the Metropolitan City of Genoa. The microgrid infrastructure integrates different technologies to satisfy the electrical, thermal and cooling demand of the site, among which an important role is played by the cogeneration AE T100 microturbines developed by the company. In the paper, the optimization tool AEN-MGD, developed to optimally design and operate the microgrid, is described and different possible configurations of the microgrid are investigated and analysed from the technical, economic and environmental point of view. The proposed model has a general validity and it can be used to design and operate other similar energy infrastructures.

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