Description

Theme 1: Pedagogies of the Arts

Talking Circles offer an opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the Research Network. Participation is open, encouraged, and supported.

Please choose the talking circle-themed room that aligns with your interests and research. 

Teaching and learning through and about the arts

Living Tensions:

• Ways of Seeing, Learning, And Knowing – Whose Perspective?
• Research Framing – Self-Inquiry or Collectible Inquiry
• Marking Boundaries – Student, Researcher and Teacher
• Maker and Critic – Teaching and Learning Arts Practices
• Crossing Disciplinary Borders – From Cultural Theory to Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology and Beyond
• Passive Learners to Active Participants
• Online Cultures, Social Networks and eLearning
• Sense-Making – Connecting the Arts to Everyday Life

Theme 2: Arts Histories and Theories

Interrogating arts histories, theories, paradigms and frameworks for critical analysis

Living Tensions

• Defining Aesthetics – From Inside or Outside
  
• Inertia and Stasis – The Power of Continuity and Change
• Art History – Purpose and Pedagogy
• The Avant-Garde – The Creative, The Innovative, The New
• Arts Objects – Aura and Artifact
• Categorizing Genres – Naming and Classifying Art Forms
• Mimesis – Perspectives on the ‘Real’ and ‘Representation’
• Voice – Negotiating Authenticity and Authority