An Arts-Based Curricular Enactment: A Holistic Exploration

• In Event: 25.068 - Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: 25.068-7 - Exploration: Diverse Pathways for Holistic Education

Abstract

This research explores how the enactment of a holistic curriculum informed by Aboriginal worldviews impacts on the complex conception and development of a large arts-based experience combining dramatic arts, visual arts, and music education. The curricular enactment has been conceptualized to reflect interconnectivity in a nested system, where all facets of learning link with each other on emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical levels (Miller, 2007). Teaching and learning from this holistic perspective offers a very different outlook from conventional school structure, where school subjects are divided into individual disciplines and where teaching and learning occur in a more linear fashion (Armstrong, 2005; Claypool & Preston, 2011).

Authors

• Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Karen Ragoonaden, The University of British Columbia

• Kelly Hanson, The University of British Columbia