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Home / 2019 / December / 18 / Students as Emerging Artists in Society: Experiential Learning in Visual Arts

Students as Emerging Artists in Society: Experiential Learning in Visual Arts

December 18, 2019

Project Investigator(s): Christine D’Onofrio, Instructor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory

Project Description

The following research proposal aims to study experiential learning pedagogical models and their methods of execution in a Visual Arts Community Engaged Learning class, VISA 375 Artists in Society. Informed by personal teaching reflection and rigorously determined curriculum models undertaken in three iterations of the course, I wish to focus on three specific artifacts. They are: a creative reflection class project, pre and post reflection questions on the role of the artists, and 5 hour-long interviews previously conducted.

Research Questions

I am interested in researching three specifically identified threads of questioning in engaged/experiential pedagogical methods:

1. Use of reflection for learning outcomes particular to experiential learning methods which are known to develop habits of life-long learning.

2. Activating experiential pedagogical models into Visual Arts curriculum that mirror the disciplinary research methods of praxis (doing), towards poeisis.

3. The use of experiential learning in a local community and its academic contextualization in the classroom towards informing students of professional ideologies in the Visual Arts, in order to visualize, self-define and customize their own future professional role.

Impact on teaching and learning at UBC

This project would be of potential interest in understanding how praxis as a way to activate learning, both in experiential learning models as well as in assignment and contact hour activities, can be an influential process in other disciplines as well. My discipline’s methodology of ‘making’ in Studio Visual Arts may inform other disciplines in teaching and learning techniques.

Posted in Awarded Projects
Tagged with Community-Based Engagement, Experiential Learning, Interviews

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