Arts Based Research and Digital Technologies as Fulcrums for Educational Transformation
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This article outlines the ways in which Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) has informed the art teacher training program in the Aristotle University (AUTH) School of Visual and Applied Arts in Thessaloniki, Greece. ABER informs my research, as well as my teaching practice in which I employ methods such as art sketchbooks in a quest to encourage a lasting synergy between the Teacher and the Artist identities. This article also presents the theoretical underpinnings of such arts-based approaches employed both in educational research and teaching methodologies. The main goal is to build a mentality in which the sensibilities and methodological advancements gained through the art students’ artistic practice will form the basis for their future arts-based educational approaches as teaching artists, and moreover, researchers. Furthermore, I present instances of EU-funded projects, (namely, Come2Art and CREAMS) in which the integration of new media, or digital technologies, such as extended reality (XR) with the aim of enhancing art students’ creativity and consequently, serve as pedagogical tool. In CREAMS, art students are provided with XR-based tools and applications that enable them to create virtual art exhibitions, exploiting the capabilities of digital environments to foster interactive, meaningful engagement. This is achieved primarily by adding multimodal contextual resources linked to artworks. The main digital application is inspired by the visual narratives explored during the art teacher training and in a symbiotic manner, in turn, inform my teaching practices. The article concludes with a third research project (FIREFLY) and finally summarises the findings and possible insights gained to provide useful inspiration in the wider field of arts education researchers and practitioners.
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