Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v16i1.1101
Jody Dlouhy-Nelson, Kelly Hanson
This paper reveals the journey of two settler-researcher-educators supporting learning in preparation for Carey Newman’s Witness Blanket Art Exhibit. Invited to create curriculum for students and educators of K-12 who would visit the exhibit, the authors describe co-curricular making as a living, re-generative, re-cursive experience. The learning alongside diverse perspectives of educators and community partners in circle—including Syilx Okanagan, School District, Art Gallery, Museum, and University—led to reconsidered understandings of co-curricular making. Relational commitments that invite co-curricular engagement with the Witness Blanket foreground Syilx Knowledge toward resisting colonial ways, and supporting tmixʷ, the life forces of Syilx Okanagan Territory.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1064
Jason D. DeHart
This article considers the experience of a literary professor working to maintain connections and creativity—as well as model pedagogy—in the context of Fall 2020. The author created invitations for undergraduate and graduate students to reflect on experiences and engage with texts/course readings, using poetic and visual choices for composing. This article includes examples of creations from this context, including mentor text work, as well as implications for creativity in online instruction.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1062
Jeffrey M. Schouela
How can comedy be used as an effective tool and truly help innovate the learning experience? This paper outlines how aspects of comedy have been creatively integrated into primary and secondary academic curricula such as English Language Arts, social studies, drama, as well as in areas of mental health and wellness. The essay demonstrates, for example, how participating in stand-up performances helped sharpen students’ critical thinking abilities and presentation skills. It also underscores comedy’s pedagogical utility and versatility, its value in the classroom, and its promising potential as a stand-alone option in the domain of arts education.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1079
Terry G. Sefton, K. Ricketts
This paper describes the pedagogical roots of the work we do, both as teachers and as performers; and how our work reaches beyond the classroom and into community, eliciting narratives and weaving them through improvised dance and music collaborations, eventually onto the walls of an art museum. Our concept was to solicit stories that told of some event that happened in a particular place, and that left a memory that was tethered to that place. We collected stories, pooled our own stories, “pinned” stories to their geographic locations, and then transformed these stories through improvised movement and sound.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1059
Joana Calçada, C. Gilham
In this scoping review, the literature on the relationship between dance and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) was consolidated. Research of various forms of dance on psychosocial outcomes among K-6 populations included: increased sense of belonging, violence prevention, and increased creative thinking and problem-solving responses. The dance form, Biodanza, in particular, may be useful in engaging students in the active practice of social skills, appropriate use of body language, self-regulation, self-awareness, and boundaries. We suggest that using dance as a tool for SEL in the classrooms may contribute to improved student mental health and to more inclusive schools.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1067
K. Cline, Meghan Sheil, Cindy Rouner
This article spotlights the power of pushing limits and boundaries through emergent curriculum and process drama as told through the story of a preschool class’s exploration of the topics of paths, maps, and pirates. The story is framed in terms of the three phases of the class’s project adapted from the Project Approach (Katz et al., 2014), which started prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, but continued and concluded in the midst of it. Reflections and insight are provided by the classroom teacher including as she drew inspiration from the Reggio Emilia Approach and other professional development and experience.
这篇文章通过一个学前班探索路径、地图和盗版主题的故事,强调了通过新兴课程和过程戏剧来突破极限和界限的力量。这个故事是根据班级项目的三个阶段来构建的,该项目改编自项目方法(Katz et al.,2014),该方法在冠状病毒大流行之前开始,但在大流行期间继续并结束。课堂老师提供了反思和见解,包括她从雷焦艾米利亚方法和其他专业发展和经验中获得的灵感。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1066
Shirley Clifton, Kathryn Grushka
There is a critical need to consider ways to enrich the educational experiences and well-being of adolescents when the lack of empathy in the world is high. This paper presents the concepts of Artful Empathy and Artful and Empathic Learning Ecology. The concepts are exemplified from a multi-site case study within Australian secondary visual art studio classrooms. The article demonstrates how learning and making art in an artfully empathic ecology can support the legitimacy of diverse and marginalized voices. Arts-based performative approaches may facilitate empathic knowing across disciplines with global traction.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1068
P. Shaner, Robert Donmoyer
Although anthropological methods have been appropriated by qualitative and mixed-methods educational researchers, visual anthropology has had virtually no impact on educational research. Furthermore, video, in general, despite its widespread impact on 21st century culture, has played only a limited role in the doing of education-related studies and almost no role in reporting study results. This paper explores what would be gained and lost if researchers began using video in the doing and, especially, in the reporting of their research. The paper uses clips from four author-developed research videos to illustrate the advantages and disadvantages associated with educational researchers “going digital.”
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1077
L. Mitchell, Kerrie Kennedy
This arts-based research uses portraiture and appreciative inquiry to explore Bachelor of Education teacher candidates’ conceptions of classroom management. A total of 270 sets of observational notes completed by 90 teacher candidates during their school practicum placements were used to inform the researchers’ creation of arts-based literary and painted learner portraits. The research addresses the questions: (1) What characteristics do teacher candidates associate with different types of learners?; (2) How might teacher-educators critically unpack these assumptive characteristics to better prepare teacher candidates for working in diverse classrooms?; and (3) How might an arts-based way of knowing enhance teacher candidates’ understandings of classroom management?
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.36510/learnland.v15i1.1076
S. O'Keefe-McCarthy, Michael M. Metz, Bernadette Kahnert
Employing applied theatre techniques of playbuilding, research-grounded scene development, and facilitated workshops has the potential to provide transformative learning. The He-ART-istic Journeys-Heart DIS-ease play is one example that invites learners to experience (living with heart disease). This aesthetic encounter creates a reflective space that embraces the uncertainty of (un)knowing-necessary to participate in relearning. Engaging in Mirror Theatre’s method of dialogic exploration, we share two scenes that demonstrate the pedagogical potential and creative process for transformative teaching purposes.
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