Moments, Movements, and Manifestations: Documentation as Medium in Chicago Artists Partnership in Education CoLab Teaching Partnerships

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 1:45 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Documentation, Collective Memory, and Agency: The Power of Collaborative Theatre Across the Lifespan (Table 1)

Abstract

Contemporary K-12 education is content, data, and outcome driven, often diminishing the role of art as research and inquiry, and at times removing art from the curriculum altogether. Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (CAPE) has worked to reinvigorate the arts in public schools through arts-based inquiry projects with collaborative partnerships (CoLab) among students, teachers, and teaching artists. For decades, socially active artists have used documentation to engage with the audience and also to reflect the process of meaning-making. This presentation will discuss how the partnerships used documentation to reflect the critical thinking, voices, and understandings toward a democratic and just educational project. Through the use of metaphor, the authors present documentation as a process consisting of moments, movement, and manifestation.

Authors

• Juana Maria Reyes, Lewis University

• Geralyn Schroeder Yu, University of New Mexico