A/r/tography in Visual Arts Teacher Training Program Examination

• The overall aim of the article is to make visible and discuss the entangled process of student degree project in visual arts teacher education in Sweden. We do this by investigating one student’s visual and textual exam, where learning through artistic work, research exploration and teaching skills (Sw. didactics) merges into the becoming of a visual arts teacher. In a higher educational context, learning subjects often become separated due to the complexity of teacher education, divided in general pedagogically oriented studies, and subject studies. In the example in this article, the student is studying teacher education at one faculty and subject didactics as well as visual arts research methods in another faculty. The separation of learning subjects involves challenges for the students, as the examination process is divided into writing three different exam texts besides the exams of artistic and performative processes. The degree as visual arts teacher is obtained in education, but the studies are also art-based. The empirical material consists of texts and photographs from one student’s master examination paper from 2018. In the selected exam, the student uses a/r/tographic approaches to describe, analyse and discuss the entangled becomings of a visual arts teacher student. In this article, we also present and reflect on the student’s exam in relation to the a/r/tographic methodology. By analysing the entanglements of becoming an artist, a researcher and a teacher (Springgay, Irwin, & Wilson Kind, 2005), we want to highlight the benefits and limitations of merging these three positions and what implications it might have for visual arts education in general. Throughout the final exam portfolio, the student Lisbeth uses animal metaphors, in visual and written forms, for becoming an artist, researcher and teacher. The animal metaphor thus carries ethical and reflective dimensions of becoming a visual arts teacher (Miller, 2015).

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Lärande (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Learning (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Övrig annan humaniora (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Other Humanities not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Keywords: visual arts teacher education

student’s degree project

a/r/tography

becoming-other

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ref (ämneskategori)

art (ämneskategori)