Abstract
Teaching Design in the Academy is built on the backbone of teachers who are first and foremost practitioners, and whose teaching education is primarily based on their personal experiences as design students. Nevertheless, their teaching is often a creative and productive action, which deserves reflective conceptualization. Bezalel Academy’s Art & Design Teaching Center uses an innovative reflective methodology to explore and cultivate the practice of academic design teaching, with the purpose of deepening the teacher’s knowledge and skills, framing the challenges, and developing new methods. The aim of the center is to cultivate and further develop the academy’s existing rich polyphonic teaching traditions and enhance our teachers’ cultures and identities as leaders of the profession. Bezalel’s Art & Design Teaching Centre was established in 2017 as a pedagogic and research initiative, positioning the teacher at the center of observation, examining the notions of teaching as a creative field of study, with its diversified practices, methodologies and styles. The center focus on the question “HOW we teach?” as a complement to the question “WHAT we teach?” in order to encourage our teachers reflect, analyze, critique, and validate their own teaching practices. Our paper will present Bezalel Art & Design Teaching Center’s unique mode of operation as a dynamic and responsive autonomous body functioning within an academic organization, generating constant opportunities for new knowledge and serving as an agent of change in the academy’s teaching and learning culture.
Presenters
Merav SalomonDirector, Arts and Design Teaching Centre, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Israel Liat Brix Etgar
Head of Arts and Design Teaching Center, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Pedagogy, Learning, Craft of teaching, Teaching culture, Reflection
