Abstract
Arts-based inquiry and experiential learning approaches support the development of critical, creative, and reflective thinking to envisage new art forms, digital spaces, and international forums. Drawing on Palmer, (2017), our research supports his approach to integrative education, urging an ontological and epistemological shift to understanding the relational, interdependent nature of our being and becoming, in the world. This includes developing 21st century skills of critical and creative thinking, deep reflective practice, and problem-solving/finding. This paper showcases the creativity and reflective practice workshops as environments for engaging learners in creativity and reflective practice to encourage transformative cultural learning to develop lifelong learners. Using multi-modal documentation from in-practice sessions, we demonstrate a process of re-enchantment, bringing student voices engaging in deep reflective practice. Students will be making new ‘edgy’ artforms through traditional Frescoes (fresh plaster) 3D artefacts, which will be photographed and transposed to digital media. The artworks and artefacts created from local Indigenous and international voices are shared on a global digital gallery in nine countries, as a large-scale community project. This new media artform will be curated to collectively form the longest digital Earth Day Mural in the world, to highlight the importance of the SDG’s.
Presenters
Bronwen Wade-LeeuwenEducator Researcher (STEAM), School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia Kathryn McLachlan
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus - Voices from the Edge: Negotiating the Local in the Global
KEYWORDS
Transformative Cultural Learning, Creativity And Reflective Practice, Experiential Learning
