Aesthetic Objects, Art Practices, and Curricular Inquiry

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to describe possibilities for innovation in pedagogical practice and curriculum studies by engaging with material and aesthetic objects and art practices. In thinking about aesthetic objects and art practices as curriculum, each paper locates possibilities for continuing reconsideration of research in curriculum studies. The papers explore diverse sites of practice including community-based digital storytelling workshops, undergraduate and graduate social foundations and global studies classrooms, and curriculum seminars in teaching certification programs. The curricular objects under consideration include video story-telling, photography, film and contemporary performance art.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 1: Critical and Post-Foundationalist Perspectives and Practices

Chair

• H. James Garrett, University of Georgia

Papers

• “I’m Silent, This Song Is Yours”: Aesthetic Conflict and the Struggle to Learn Through Digital Storytelling - Chloe Brushwood Rose, York University

• Containing Pedagogical Complexity Through the Assignment of Photography: Two Case Presentations - H. James Garrett, University of Georgia; Sara Matthews, Wilfrid Laurier University

• The Hospitable Pedagogies of Coffee: Difficult Knowledge as Creative Material - Christopher Mark Schulte, University of Georgia - Athens

• In Place of a Manual for Learning to Teach: Laurent Cantet’s Entre Les Murs (The Class) - Karyn E. Sandlos, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Discussant

• Gail M. Boldt, The Pennsylvania State University