Enacting Learning

ISBN-13: 9783838384412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 228 str.

Pam Patterson

Opis

Women are rarely taught to reveal female experiences in art, use womens materials, or apply feminist theory. There is little significant research on how women learn or create learning communities. Arts-informed research provides more discerning tools for a complex study. This inquiry engages one educational community: The Bay Area Artists for Womens Art (BAAWA). The inquire/learners authorial voice enlivens this discussion with complementary conversations. These address personal/public assumptions, and feminist and art education research and theories. Grounding this are a: literature study, participant research study as notated performance script, and exhibition. The relationship and specificity of these modalities reveal womens art learning-as-curricking as understood from, and applied beyond, BAAWA. This research is multi-layered, open, and aesthetic, stressing the particular needs and practices of contemporary North American women artists. It explicates learning-in-community and articulates innovative research strategies/practices relevant to curriculum/arts researchers and planners, educators, and art practitioners developing inclusive postmodern art education.

O autorze

Pam E. Patterson, PhD: Expertise in art education, gender and cultural studies. Director, WIAprojects, Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and Co-Director, ARTIFACTS Performance. As a performance artist, Patterson presents internationally.