Poster Session
Developing Teaching Indicators for Integrating Social-emotional Learning into Junior High School Art Education
Poster Session Chi Hui Huang
For a long time, Taiwan's education has been influenced by the school entrance doctrine, with teaching primarily guided by examinations, resulting in an overemphasis on cognitive learning while neglecting non-cognitive learning. Social-emotional learning refers to an individual's acquisition of emotional intelligence, attitudes, behaviors, and values. It encompasses five key skills: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making, which collectively contribute to their interpersonal interactions and overall development in society. In recent years, Taiwan has begun to recognize the importance of social-emotional learning. Art, with its intrinsic emotional and communication functions, holds significant value in education and offers an opportunity to integrate social-emotional learning. Thus, this research adapts questionnaires and interviews to achieve the following research purposes: 1.To understand the extent to which junior high school art teachers in Taiwan prioritize social-emotional learning. 2.To research and develop teaching indicators for integrating social-emotional learning into art education in junior high schools. 3.To provide suggestions for implementing social-emotional learning in the field of junior high school art.
Featured Deconstructing the Bowler Hat: My Life as an Object Lesson in Dialogical Persona View Digital Media
Poster Session Kelsay Myers
In a time when everyday life has become increasingly disembodied and uncertain, questions like: Who am I? and How can I express myself? become not only necessary but essential for sustaining meaningful creative expression. I explore the question: How does art enable a living expression of a multifaceted and whole self? The inspiration for this inquiry comes from my personal experiences of healing a shattered, abstract, and dissociated identity by encountering a sacred wholeness in objects that symbolize core facets of the self, using expressive arts-based methods for integrating complex trauma. As a transnational Korean adoptee who felt rootless for much of my life, it was difficult for me to feel tethered to the messiness in myself and in the world. To find grounding, I had to restore the connection to my heart, body, and environment that had been severed at birth. In my case, a black felt bowler hat, mirrors, flowers, and wing dancing are the objects that reflect my own wholeness of self back to me. I am designing a transformative integration process for trauma healing using objects as metaphors to symbolize a multifaceted yet whole self that I am calling Dialogical Persona. As I continue to live this inquiry using the arts-based research method of a/r/tography, I playfully explore and deconstruct each facet of my process through multimodal artmaking captured in video collage essays, dance performances and self-portrait drawings to show the aliveness and sustenance in the words, images, and literal body of work.
Art in Social Work Practice: Visual Art as a Framework for Action and Intervention for Women-specific Social Work View Digital Media
Poster Session Marie Neele Ansmann
Creative-artistic approaches form frameworks for action and varying potentials for the profession-immanent field of women-specific social work in Germany. Within group settings women can share their experiences, receive support, experience community and social participation as well as self-efficacy through artistic activity. But what about the preconditions, (institutional) circumstances, accesses and actual states of such practice projects? What motivations, artistic contents and means as well as (social work) goals are pursued and, above all, what (support) potential, beyond regular, social work measures, is hidden in creative-social work practice projects for women? Answers to these questions enable on the one hand a deeper understanding of the benefits and chances of art within social work with women, on the other hand they offer suggestions for future practice projects in the German social landscape in order to (further) improve the situation of women and to address society. The presentation deals with the above-mentioned questions on the basis of first collected data from expert interviews (social workers/ socially-engaged art and culture workers - generated via research and snowball system) from the qualitative study on creative-artistic practice projects in the context of social work with the target group of women. The evaluation is done by means of Grounded Theory in MAXQDA. So far, it appears that artistic offers in the context of social work with women aim to empower them, to contribute to communication, agency and self-efficacy, but also to support them in their specific (multi-)problems or needs and to make them visible to society.
Exploring the Initial Period of Settlement Among Immigrant Women Experiencing Intersectional Barriers in Toronto Through a Photovoice Project
Poster Session Minju Kim
Numerous women embark on migration journeys, driven by aspirations to secure enhanced opportunities for themselves and their families. However, they often encounter significant impediments due to intersecting systems of oppression related to gender, race, immigration status, and other social dimensions. This study elucidates the experiences of immigrant women during their initial settlement period. Employing Community-Based Participatory Research and Arts-Based Research approaches, the research used the photovoice method, with collages and storytelling, to explore the experiences of twenty immigrant women. Grounded in an intersectional feminist framework, this thesis presents findings based on visual and narrative data gathered from a creative empowerment program at Newcomer Women Services Toronto. Three predominant themes emerged: (1) pre-migration expectations and post-migration realities, (2) welcome and reception of settlement support, and (3) barriers experienced during initial settlement. The study offers a detailed examination of a range of experiences, both positive and adversarial, that immigrant women navigate throughout their migration journey. The research implications include recognizing the holistic needs of newcomers and providing a comprehensive support system to foster a more inclusive and equitable experience.
Digital Dynamics: Transforming Performing Arts Marketplaces at the Adelaide Fringe Festival View Digital Media
Poster Session You Lin Tsai
This study examines the integration of new media and technology in the context of performing arts marketplaces, focusing on the Adelaide Fringe Festival as a case study. Performing arts agents, key facilitators in the discovery and promotion of performing groups, utilize festivals, competitions, and exhibitions as primary avenues for scouting talent. The Adelaide Fringe Festival, established in 1960 and now one of the largest of its kind globally, epitomizes how traditional arts festivals are evolving into sophisticated trade platforms. These platforms treat various forms of performing arts—such as music, dance, theater, acrobatics, and magic—as commodities, facilitating their trade between buyers and sellers at designated times and venues. This paper explores how emerging technologies and new media have transformed these festivals from mere cultural gatherings into dynamic trade fairs. It analyzes the mechanisms through which these technologies support the operational needs of arts agents and the broader implications for the market dynamics of performing arts. By delving into the technological underpinnings that enhance and sometimes complicate these interactions, the study aims to provide insights into the future trajectory of arts marketplaces and their role in the global cultural economy.
