Focused Discussion (Asynchronous)
Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Arts in Early Learning Curriculum Frameworks View Digital Media
Focused Discussion Amoriza Gunnink
Early learning curriculum framework policy documents narrate and traject the experiences of children in early care settings. Together, we review and discuss the positioning of the arts and aesthetic education in a sampling of early learning curriculum frameworks from around the world with an emphasis on how arts and aesthetic goals and principles are presented and actualized within the documents. We discuss to what extent artistic dispositions and potentialities are being nurtured in young children. This focused discussion is useful for anyone committed to arts education advocacy and those interested in advancing arts and aesthetic education in the early years, particularly in curriculum and policy-making.
Pandemic Community Art: Learning and Teaching through Public Art Interventions View Digital Media
Focused Discussion Anna Augusto Rodrigues
There was an influx of public service announcements (PSAs) informing people how to stay safe from COVID -19 in the first few months of 2020. Many of these PSAs are online, as accessing a computer or mobile device that is connected to the internet, especially in developed countries, is usually assumed. However, having access to the internet, even in urban areas, is not always the case. This was seen in Toronto, Canada, where educational administrators struggled to provide devices with internet service to a large number of home bound children and youth when schools were closed abruptly in March 2020 due to the pandemic. A lack of online connectivity can impact the effectiveness of public health messages; an issue that is even more pressing when it comes to the dissemination of information during a pandemic. I am proposing a presentation that will discuss how legal and illegal public art interventions, dedicated to sharing information on how to stay safe from COVID-19, are actually functioning as PSAs by filling some of the gaps that official announcements are not covering. Using public pedagogy as a theoretical framework, my presentation will showcase several examples of public art interventions that provide information on how to stay safe during the pandemic. These pieces demonstrate strongly the potential to act as public service announcements that can be found on community walls rather than online or through traditional media. For communities who may be struggling with a lack of internet service, these messages can prove to lifesaving.
Research Policies in Chile in the Field of Study of Theater View Digital Media
Focused Discussion Marisol Campillay Llanos
In the field of study of higher education, the conflicts of academics and academics before the neoliberal regulation of work in the university have been made visible (Ball, 2003, 2012; Peralta, 2019). This regulation has particularly affected academic activities related to the production of knowledge. Therefore, research in higher education on performativity has pointed out, the academic problems of different fields of study within the framework of the audit culture (Shore & Wright, 1999, Archer 2008, Cannizo, 2018; Harland & Wald, 2018 ). Research shows how the production of knowledge in the different disciplinary fields presents particularities in the face of research policies (Shore & Wright, 1999, Archer 2008, Cannizo, 2018; Harland & Wald, 2018; Grumman, 2020). In the field of theater, research policies are among the current epistemological and methodological discussions concerning its field of study and the history it carries since its university origins (Pradenas, 2006; Grass, 2011). Given this context, academics working in theater schools must respond to the current demands of knowledge production within the framework of the university auditing culture. Therefore, the objective of the project is to analyze academic performance in the face of the current tension of research and knowledge production policies in university theater majors. Finally, this project seeks to contribute to the field of study of higher education from the theoretical and methodological contributions that performativity provides for academic and academic studies. In addition to investigating research policies and the production of knowledge in specific fields of study such as theater.
