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View article: Becoming Ecological: The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers’ Agency in Arts Education
Becoming Ecological: The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers’ Agency in Arts Education Open
Internationally, it is widely acknowledged that many generalist primary teachers (GPTs) enter the teaching profession with a paucity of arts practice and pedagogic skills. Many perceive a lack of confidence, competence, and community to ch…
View article: Walking the Walk: Democratizing Change in Teacher Education
Walking the Walk: Democratizing Change in Teacher Education Open
In this essay, as a group of teacher educators, we discuss our experience of “walking the walk” of teacher education transformation at a time of urgent change. We reflect upon our process of integrating three key priorities in our preservi…
View article: Education, Arts and Sustainability: Emerging Practice for a Changing World
Education, Arts and Sustainability: Emerging Practice for a Changing World Open
This book addresses this challenge by proposing an integration of sustainability and arts education in both principle and practice. In a global context of intensifying social, economic and environmental crises, education is key to raising…
View article: Education in the Arts
Education in the Arts Open
This book combines a number of important purposes. To provide students with: an understanding of the place of the arts in society and in schools an introduction to the basic principles of each art form and how to teach it vivid pictures of…
View article: What can mindful educators learn from artists who work with children?
What can mindful educators learn from artists who work with children? Open
In this chapter, Robert Brown and Mary Ann Hunter, two arts educators who have extensive experience working in and researching artist-teacher relationships, take a closer look at the work of artists. Their exploration, illustrated with ane…
View article: Dark Play: On an Alternative Politics of Aspiration
Dark Play: On an Alternative Politics of Aspiration Open
This chapter focuses on dark play and why it matters. It queries what we mean by aspiration and troubles the normative assumptions of what constitutes good education. It seeks a new relational mapping of creativity and play when it comes t…
View article: Teaching with Art in Mind
Teaching with Art in Mind Open
In this chapter, we introduce and lay down the basic principles on which the whole book is based. We make claims that not only bring the arts into the mainstream curriculum, but seek to place them right at the centre of classroom practice,…
View article: Arts Education Academics’ Perceptions of eLearning & Teaching in Australian Early Childhood and Primary ITE Degrees
Arts Education Academics’ Perceptions of eLearning & Teaching in Australian Early Childhood and Primary ITE Degrees Open
This article presents the findings of an investigation of eLearning & teaching in Arts education in Australian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) degrees. This project used survey and interviews to collect data from academics in 16 universiti…