Trick or treat!
The “Seminar of Professional Practices in Art Education” class celebrated Halloween by Trick-or-Treating!
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New project! F^Cubed
F^Cubed is a collaborative visual research project with teens that explores the issue of food access and the notion of heritage within the historic neighborhood of Frenchtown. Carried out in collaboration with an FSU research team, the Palmer Munroe Teen Center and the Frenchtown Heritage Hub.
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Keynote presentation. 5th International Symposium on Education and Visuality
I recently gave the keynote address in the bi-annual symposium hosted by the research group Grupo de pesquisa a Cultura Visual e Educaçao. This year the symposium was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, and explored the topic: Educational Research in Hyper-Visual Contexts.
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Desire paths: a reflection on teaching and learning
A semester-long project that used desire paths as a metaphor to reflect on teaching and learning…
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Learning in the eventful space: Nomadic pedagogies and other mobilities
This week at AERA I presented in Theorizing Space and Place, a paper session organized within the division for Curriculum Studies (Div B).
All four papers in the session looked critically at space as productive of knowledge, a more-than-physical construct that has ideological and discursive implications.
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Revisiting data: negative space and the palimpsest
This week at the Art Education Research Institute‘s first annual symposium I presented a paper where I revisited some of the data from my dissertation. Rather than analyze how the young people represented the results of our collaborative project, I attempt to look at the negative spaces surrounding this material and question the work of representation in educational research. Later I explored the palimpsest as a strategy to keep meaning-making in play.
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Publication: New Learning Imaginaries
An article I wrote drawing on research from my doctoral dissertation, New Learning Imaginaries: Youth Perspectives on Learning In and Outside School, was recently published by the International Journal of Research on Extended Education.
ECER 2015
European Conference on Educational Research, 2015
Last week I attended ECER with the Esbrina research group (University of Barcelona). While there I presented some of the results of my dissertation in the Ethnography network, focusing on the use of the mobilities paradigm as an analytical framework for youth learning practices. This analysis will be published in an upcoming issue of International Journal of Extended Education, most likely by the end of the year.
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Sophie Calle – Take care of yourself
A retrospective of Sophie Calle’s work was on exhibit in Barcelona this spring. I’ve always been a fan of the artist but hadn’t seen any of her recent work.
On display was the piece “Take care of yourself” (2007), which was originally exhibited at the French Pavilion of the Venice Biennial.
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Group projects – Pedagogies de fricció
Yesterday at the Joan Miró Foundation, the teachers who took the course developed by Pedagogies de Fricció, Seminar on pedagogical innovation and renovation through art education. Debates, tools, methodologies and educational proposals, presented their final projects.
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Dodgeball – Pedagogies de fricció
DODGEBALL!
This month for Pedagogies de fricció we’ll be interviewing teachers, students, curators, community workers, etc. in order to diagnose the state of art education in Catalonia today.
To follow the interviews, visit the project web page.
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Practicum presentations
Visual Arts & Education MA program – Practicum 2015 Today and yesterday our MA students in the Visual Arts and Education program presented the results from their practicums. The presentations were a challenge since we used the Pechakucha format: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. It was a marathon but we got through it! I…
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