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Visual embodied and performative pedagogy: visual learning as becoming
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Grushka, Kathryn
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education
Description
The challenge for arts educators is to find language and conceptual framings for visual art education that resonate with the transformative and literacy aims of mainstream education and position visual learning as essential. The unique value of visual knowing is now an imperative in our ocularcentric culture where new technologies, consumerism and unprecedented mobility impacts on all students in the twenty first century. Visual creative adaptability and its culturally located critical and generative understandings draw from our sense-rich world of human experience. Grounded in the theories of communicative knowing (Habermas,1976), becoming as the experience of performing self (Deleuze, 2001, 2004), experience and creativity as personal agency (Semetsky, 2003) and informed by socio-cultural inquiry, visuality and art practice as research (Sullivan, 2005) the research connects explicitly to socio-cultural values. This paper presents a conceptual model of Visual Embodied and Performative Pedagogy as a renewed language for visual arts education. It is grounded in material embodied practices, socio-cultural learning and identities understanding as they emerge in an ethico-aesthetic learning space that contributes to participatory democracy. The paper argues that the embodied and performative visual experience is central to personal socio-cultural inquiry and subjectivity insights. The paper will foreground the theoretical arguments for Visual Embodied and Performative Pedagogy of self with empirical Australian visual education research, between 2004-2007 (Dinham, Grushka, MacCallum, Brown, Wright, & Pasco, 2007; Grushka, 2009). It centers the significance of images in society and the need for all students to develop visual communicative competencies. The benefits of socially embedded and embodied visual inquiry are argued. In so doing it calls into question the illustrative and often secondary role afforded to visual communicative proficiency found in visual arts education and its related learning outcomes. It argues that it is an essential way of knowing for the mediation of ideas and eelings in the new image oriented society.
Relation
UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education 2010. Proceedings of the UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education (Seoul, South Korea 25-28 May, 2010)
Relation
http://www.artsedu2010.kr/index.jsp
Date
2010
Publisher
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Keyword(s)
visuality;  visual communicative proficiency;  embodied education;  performative pedagogy;  ethico-aesthetic learning
Resource Type
conference paper
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935947
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