Considerable research has documented student resistance to efforts at diversity and equity in college curricula. Scholars have also focused on negative attitudes among K-12 teacher candidates toward anti-racist and culturally informed approaches within education, as well as on the instrumental and teacher-centered approaches that typify special edu...
For this Capstone Project, the researcher investigated how Dream Academy and Little Foot Elementary educators view music's impacts on social-emotional learning and what they thought could be done to improve it. Based on an analysis of the data and the relevant research literature, the researcher used what they have learned to formulate an action th...
Creative coding has become more common in art and new media schools, however research describing how teachers navigate the unique challenges of teaching code as a creative medium is limited. This paper presents the details of a creative coding course designed to support the ‘creative’ side of creative coding. As a result of this research, I present...
For this Capstone Project, the researcher investigated how art teachers view the impact of arts education on students with mental health issues and provided suggestions of solutions they deem fit. After researching literature and data on the subject and interviewing stakeholders, the researcher used their newfound knowledge to curate an action to b...
Building a Culture of Creativity and Thinking in the Special Education Classroom National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2024 Art TEAMs Contributors About Megan Pitrat About Kimberley D'Adamo Grounded in theory and evidence Evolution of Kimberley's practice Searching for better Art TEAMs: Teaching with arts and emerging media, U...
The Art TEAMS Year 2 Report outlines the progress and achievements of a grant-funded teacher professional learning initiative in art education. Focusing on integrating visual and emerging media arts into various subjects, the project has significantly surpassed its goals, evidencing its success through both qualitative and quantitative assessments....
In early 2021, the Schusterman Library at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa satellite campus took a new step towards building a culture of interest by creating the Graphic Scholarship Collection. This new endeavor is a curated collection of graphic novels, primarily non-fiction, aligned with the academic programs on campus, as well as promoting Univ...
This paper explores the experiences of six teacher learners and one teacher educator in a graduate course on aesthetic education at a Midwestern university in the U.S. Using collective autoethnography and arts-practice research, the researcher/participants examine how aesthetic experiences were activated in the learning environment and how this act...
research as art : art as research [website] scaffolding trans-disciplinary, art-centered learning Created and Maintained by Kimberley D'Adamo Framing art as research presents a new vision of art practice; making art is understood to be less about producing aesthetic objects and images and more about exploring a topic or idea, responding intellectua...
This article focuses on the contribution of new strategies for the decoding of visual information. Given that current circumstances comprise an image democratization and its problematic dogmatism as an informative document, we propose this work around a visual literacy media, widely worked in the mid-twentieth century because of its visual-narrativ...
