Navigating the Profitable Relationship Between Teacher Education and Trusting Aesthetic Experience

• In Event: Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: Arts-Based Educational Research as Provocation Within Teacher Education

Abstract

What does confidence in the creative process look like? What does it feel like? And why is it necessary? Navigating the world as an artist, a teacher, and a researcher has led me to question what it takes to trust in aesthetic experience. What is necessary for those unwilling or seemingly unable to perceive themselves as creative, artistic beings, to have confidence in creative process? What role does our perception of our selves and our environment play in willingly giving our selves over to the unknown potential of the creative process within aesthetic experience? In this paper I investigate the perceptions of future teachers and their growing confidence in themselves, their environment and their own creative process.

Author

• Stephanie Autumn Baer, University of Nebraska - Kearney