Teacher Students Meet Their Intended Target Group - Aesthetic Work on Tweenies as a Phenomenon

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how visual representations of identity are created and perceived by future leisure-time center teachers. In the leisure-time center there are still good opportunities to focus on interdisciplinary and joint work on value-based work, not least through aesthetic and creative processes. We have tried to develop tasks that challenge our teacher students to work exploratory with the concept Tweenies as a phenomenon through work with Storyline as a tool for a narrative, a way of working where aesthetics and image didactics have been used as didactic tools. The assumption that we make from the work with the university course is that the teacher students themselves need to experience the importance of working aesthetically with Storyline to understand the basis of the concept. What has been a crucial perspective for us is that the students are given the opportunity to learn through art and not just about art (Lindstrom, 2011) in the aesthetic learning processes. In our interviews we have been able to see that the task is perceived as both fun and demanding. The work with storyline made the students involved and they dared to experiment with other inputs than the ones in traditional teaching, which helped them to approach and deal with problems like how to take up difficult subjects in the teaching activities.