1st Edition

Performative Approaches in Arts Education Artful Teaching, Learning and Research

Edited By Anna-Lena Østern, Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen Copyright 2019
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

In Performative Approaches in Arts Education , researchers, artists and practitioners from philosophy and the arts elaborate on what performative approaches can contribute to 21 st century arts education. Introducing new perspectives on learning, the contributors provide a central international perspective, developing a paradigm in which the artist, teacher and researcher’s form of teaching is... Read more

Foreword



Brad Haseman



Introduction





Anna-Lena Østern & Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen



Part I







  1. The poiesis and mimesis of learning




  2. Thomas Dahl







  3. Exploring (dis)ability: Towards affirmative spaces in and through arts pedagogy




  4. Liisa Jaakonaho & Kristina Junttila







  5. Revitalizing drama in education through fictionalization- a performative approach




  6. Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen & Ida Krøgholt







  7. Research through the gaze of the dramaturge – Narratives from inside the artist’s studio






  8. Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen & Anna-Lena Østern



    Part II







  9. Artistic exploration of a storyteller’s expressive repertoire in events with toddlers




  10. Ingvild Olsen Olaussen & Lise Hovik







  11. Designing as composing music with iPads - a performative perspective




  12. Bjørn-Terje Bandlien & Staffan Selander







  13. Experimenting with experience Searching for "the middle ground" of artful literature teaching




  14. Anna-Lena Østern & Hannah Kaihovirta



    Part III







  15. Inhabiting practice – Performative approaches to education and research as art




  16. Tormod Wallem Anundsen & Helene Illeris







  17. Performing justice in the Amazon




Dan Baron Cohen





10. Untamed stories told by artfully creative artists in Malawi and Norway



Anna-Lena Østern & Sunniva Skjøstad Hovde



Summary

Biography

Anna-Lena Østern is Senior Professor in Arts Education at the Department for Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.



Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen is Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre Education at the Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

"This anthology gathers cutting edge researchers and practitioners from different art modalities to explore how and why performative approaches contribute to teaching, learning and research. Through the use of diversified examples, the authors shed light on how artful ways to engage in pedagogy and research can reveal unexpected insights and complex understandings. Furthermore, each chapter provides compelling evidence as to why creative learning and researching matter in today’s society."

Dr. George Belliveau, Professor of Theatre Education, University of British Columbia.

"Centering on the concept and practices of performing approaches, and what they can offer to arts education through artful teaching, learning and research, this book is an original and vibrant collection and an important contribution to the literature. Enthusiastically recommended!"

Liora Bresler, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

"This book has a vitalism that is engaging and provocative, while providing a scholarly reading of arts engagement on an international scale. Thoroughly recommended for those artists, educators and students in how art is changing in the school and wider community."

Chris Naughton, Auckland University of Technology.