Your Art Matters: Perspectives of Arts Integration

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Integrating Arts, STEM, and Literacy Education (Table 5)

Abstract

This roundtable is an ethnodramatic experience based on a dissertation study that sought to explore the perspectives of preservice teachers (PST) on arts integration. Findings will be presented as an ethnodramatic script that capture the arts integration experiences of PSTs, which includes topics such as belief in their own artistic capabilities, supportive structures in place within student teaching placements and teacher education programs, and challenges presented by arts integration. This roundtable will be an immersive experience, where participants will engage in reader’s theater workshop to act out scenes. Afterwards, a talk back session will occur where participants will answer prompts from the researcher, respond to the art, and discuss the research.

Author

• John Samuels, Kennesaw State University