Art Teacher Education in Great Britain: Two Examples

1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Art Teacher ◽  
Art Teacher Education

Transcending gender dichotomy through art teacher education in Zimbabwe

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dairai Darlington Dziwa ◽  
Louise Postma ◽  
Louisemarié Combrink
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Art Teacher ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Art Teacher Education ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Teacher Education Students

Zimbabwe is a patriarchal society characterized by gender dichotomy and male domination that permeates through social, educational and domestic spheres resulting in numerous challenges for art teacher education students. Expanding critical consciousness within art teacher education programmes is an imperative step towards developing art teachers who are self-aware and reflexive concerning the intersections of gender, art and education. This study investigated how engagement with visual art can provoke a heightened critical awareness about gender bias, stereotyping and equity among Zimbabwean art teacher education students. Sixteen selected art teacher education students (eight males and females) at the Great Zimbabwe University participated in the study. Participants were guided by researcher-constructed prompts for purposes of image making, interpretation and dialogue. Visual discourse analysis of the students’ visual narratives and discourse analysis of focus group transcriptions revealed several themes as well as evidence of critical reflection and expanded critical awareness related to gender issues. Visual and dialogic methods offer promise for critical engagement and reconciliation of tensions surrounding issues of gender amongst art teacher education candidates.

Opening Thirdspace: Cultivating critical geographies in art teacher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy G. Bertling
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Field Placement ◽  
Art Teacher ◽  
Geographic Analysis ◽  
Art Teacher Education ◽  
School Zones

Pre-service teachers new to a field placement need the opportunity to orient themselves in relation to their larger teaching contexts and configure geographies that resonate with the lives of their students. Soja’s Thirdspace offers a lens through which teachers might explore place multi-dimensionally. Building upon a previous arts-based educational research study assessing the potential of arts-based inquiry for supporting pre-service teachers in exploring their teaching contexts, this study, through a second curricular iteration, focused explicitly on art pre-service teachers’ critical geographic analysis, in the form of Thirdspace. In mapping their school zones, pre-service teachers began to identify illusory impressions and conceptions of students, schools and communities and then began to deconstruct them. Such Thirdspace journeys offer space for pre-service teachers to hone their perceptions, to retrain their gazes to see their students’ physical and lived worlds in their complexity and plurality, and to re-imagine the relation between place and pedagogy.

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