Negotiating Disruption in Visual Arts Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Jennifer Elsden-Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
School Context ◽  
School Community ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
General School

The visual arts has a long tradition of providing a space for artists to take up disruptive practices such a, challenging what is known, questioning and exploiting cultural codes, and providing alternative social practices. This chapter is interested in how visual arts students take up these disruptive possibilities within the complexity of secondary schools; a space historically characterised by hierarchal power, surveillance, and institutionalized structure. This chapter draws upon interviews with art teachers to examine the discourses surrounding their observations of ‘disruptive’ art created in their classrooms. In particular, the author focuses on the stories of two students who through their artwork explored and transgressed normalised notions of sexualities and bodies, which was signalled to be problematic within the school context by the teachers. This discussion explores how teachers, students, and the general school community respond and negotiate the tension and discomfort that can arise from ‘disruptive’ art.

scholarly journals Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy: How These Dimensions are Enriching Visual Arts Education for Ethnically Diverse Students in New Zealand Secondary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p311
Author(s):  
Jill Smith
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Curriculum Assessment ◽  
Assessment Policies

This article reports on findings from two complementary research projects conducted in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. Both projects were motivated by changing demographic statistics from a largely European-ethnic student population in secondary schools in the past, to an ethnically diverse one in the present. Each project focused upon the nature of New Zealand’s national curriculum and assessment policies for visual arts education, and the pedagogical practices of art teachers. European-ethnic art teachers comprise the majority in secondary schools, thus the research in 2015 centred on how these teachers are working alongside ethnically diverse students. Given that there is a growing population of Asian-ethnic students in secondary schools, the follow-up project in 2018 focused on how art teachers of Asian ethnicity are supporting these students to engage in experiences that express their cultural identities. The findings provide evidence of how art teachers are using the curriculum, assessment policies and culturally responsive pedagogies to enrich the nature of visual arts education for students of all ethnicities in secondary schools in this country. The findings are exemplified through the ‘voices’ of a sample of art teachers, and ‘artworks’ by 15-18 year old students which encapsulate the role of images as a powerful form of data.

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

scholarly journals Biculturalism and Multiculturalism: Competing Tensions in Visual Arts Education in Aotearoa-New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Multicultural Art Education ◽  
Postcolonial History

New Zealand has become an increasingly multicultural society since the 1990s. But multicultural education is complicated in this nation by its position on biculturalism, a commitment founded in its postcolonial history. The finding of an investigation in secondary schools, which showed that national and visual arts curricula emphasize biculturalism over multiculturalism, was reflected in art teachers’ pedagogies. In this paper I discuss how multicultural art education could be strengthened within the existing bicultural framework. Bridging the gap between policies and practices would require art teachers to review their practices and implement strategies which take into account the cultural diversity of students to enhance understandings of their own and other multicultural societies.

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