Art, Artists, and Pedagogy: Philosophy and the Arts in Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Perspectives linking the arts to education often extol art as a pure pedagogy, where the achievement of skills can override questions of artistic environment and persona. However this perception runs counter to that of art-work as an educative and affective process, where the integrity of the work is an educative event, contingent upon that particular student and his or her lived experience. Bringing an artwork into being, in the world, can here be understood as a negotiation involving the work and how it is received by and with others. This Symposium will reflect on the teacher as protagonist in an educational project that does not objectify art, but recognizes art as it exists on its own terms with us.

Sub Unit

• Australian Association for Research in Education - AARE / Australian Association for Research in Education

Chair

• Julianne Moss, Deakin University

Papers

• What's Educational About Art Education? An Exploration of the Educational Significance of Education Through Art - Gert J. Biesta, Brunel University

• Exploring "Grown-Up-Ness in the World" Through Dramatic Art and Literature - Robyn Ann Ewing, The University of Sydney

• Entanglements of Arts Education - Mary Ann Hunter, University of Tasmania

• Discovering the Value of the Weak in an Arts Performance Event - Christopher Francis Naughton, New Zealand Tertiary College