FLAKS/ Fields, Projects and Publications

FLAKS initiates and conducts arts-based, subject-specific teaching research aimed at subject and teaching development in the areas of fine arts, music and theatre education in schools.

On request, FLAKS supervises projects on educational research in collaboration with interested teaching professionals, theatre pedagogues and institutions.

FLAKS is responsible for conveying a research-related teachers education through the teaching methodology courses at the Master of Arts in Art Education, specialization ‘Teaching Art’. The basic approach is action research.

FLAKS acts as an intra-university interface between the fields of fine arts, music and theatre pedagogy. The findings generated from the research projects flow into the curriculum design, the courses offered and the university didactics at ZHdK.

FLAKS shares findings and knowledge in public conferences and talks, publications, articles, and offers workshops.
 

  • Projects

    • Calculation and Contingency – a team-based research project on the potential of art and theatre education
      SNF research project: Institute for Art Education (IAE) and Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Education, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the context of the Research Laboratory for Arts in Schools (FLAKS)
      Research associates and project leadership: Anne Gruber, Anna Schürch, Sascha Willenbacher
      Research professionals: Seraina Dür, Christin Glauser, Helen Hagenbuch, Simon Harder (Institute for Cultural Studies and Olten Cantonal School), Simon Kramer, Milena Meier, Sabine Mommartz, Roland Nyffeler (Olten Cantonal School), Eva Maria Welter, Daniela Wettstein (Mathematics and Science Upper Secondary School Rämibühl/Zurich) 2013/2015

    • Approaching “moments of confusion”
      Pilot project: Frederike Dengler (theatre pedagogue), Eva-Maria Küpfer (choreographer) and Andreas Bürgisser (student of Master of Arts in Theatre Pedagogy, ZHdK) 2013/14

    • Invisibility/Visibility – project on teaching development in the subjects of Fine Arts and Art History, at the Olten Cantonal School
      Members of Fine Arts staff at Olten Cantonal School: Michèle Fässler, Anne Gruber, Vera Harder (lead), Roland Nyffeler, Jürg Orfei
      External supervision: Anna Schürch (FLAKS) 2012

    • The Art of Fine Arts
      Pilot project: Vera Harder (student, Master of Arts in Art Education, teaching and learning, Fine Arts teacher, Olten Cantonal School) and Roland Nyffeler (Fine Arts teacher, Olten Cantonal School) 2011

    • Relevance of contemporary art in Fine Arts teaching
      Pilot project: Anne Gruber (student, Master of Arts in Art Education, teaching & learning) and Daniela Wettstein (Fine Arts teacher MNG Rämibühl) 2011

  • Publications

    2016

    2015

    2014

    2013

  • Conference presentations

    2016

    • Willenbacher, Sascha: “‘Make a salad‘ – Irritation und Erkenntnis” – (Confusion and insight). Workshop during the conference of the Institute for Continuing Education and Counceling, FHNW, 13 September 2016, Murten.
       
    • Schürch, Anna/Willenbacher, Sascha: “Was bedeutet ein aufmerksamer Umgang mit Kontingenz für die kunst- und theaterpädagogische Vermittlungspraxis? Einblicke in das teambasierte Forschungsprojekt ‘Kalkül und Kontingenz’” (What does a more cautious handling of contingency mean for teaching practice in the fields of art and theatre education? Some glimpses into the team-based research project “Calculation and contingency”). Talk presented at the conference “Ungewissheit im Bildungsprozess – Reflexion eines interdisziplinären fachdidaktischen Forschungsprojektes”, University of Hamburg, 4–6 February 2016.
       

    2015

    • Schürch, Anna/Willenbacher, Sascha/Gruber, Anne: Installation at the “Forschungstag” at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, 12 December 2015.

    • Schürch, Anna/Willenbacher, Sascha: Workshop at the conference “Die Künste in der Bildung 2015: Künstlerische Prozesse als Erkenntnisprozesse?” (The Arts in Education 2015: Artistic processes as processes of cognition?), ZHdK, 6 November 2015.

    • Schürch, Anna/Willenbacher, Sascha; Gruber, Anne: “Kunstpädagogische Forschungsfelder zwischen Theorie und Praxis” (Aspects of art education research between theory and practice); contribution to the “Forschungstag für junge Nachwuchswissenschaftler_innen” at the Federal Congress on Art Education, Salzburg/Austria; 13 February 2015.

    • Schürch, Anna/Willenbacher, Sascha/Blanchard, Olivier: Workshop “Wie Lehrpersonen durch eigene Forschung ihre Unterrichtspraxis weiterentwickeln” (How teachers continue to develop their teaching practice through their own research) during the conference “Professionalisierung in den Fachdidaktiken” (Professionalization in teaching methodology). 22 January 2015.
       

    2014

    • Willenbacher, Sascha/Gruber, Anne: Presentation of the project “Kalkül und Kontingenz” (Calculation and contingency) at SAERN-Session 01. For more information on SAERN-Session 01.

  • Events

    2016

    • Networking event Art Education “HOPPLA. (Un)planbares kalkulieren: BG-Unterricht im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kalkül und Kontingenz” (Calculating the (un)predictable; situating the teaching of fine arts between calculation and contingency), ZHdK, 6–10 June 2016.

    • Conference “(Un)planbares kalkulieren – Kunstunterricht und Theatervermittlung zwischen Kalkül und Kontingenz” (Calculating the (un)predictable – art education and theatre teaching between calculation and contingency), Olten Cantonal School, 2 April 2016.
       

    2015

    • Course on the topic: “Implizites explizit machen. Was heisst das?” (Making the implicit explicit. What does it mean?) in the Master in Transdisciplinary Studies, in the seminar “Vermittlung – Unvermitteltes” (Mediation – the unmediated), ZHdK, 3 December 2015.

    • Course on the topic: “Event Scores als Mittel zur Annäherung an Kontingenz” (Event Scores as a means of approximating contingency) in the seminar “Fachdidaktische und kunstpädagogische Theoriebildung I” (Theory of teaching methodology and art education theory I), ZHdK, 27 November 2015.

    • Course on the topic: “Was ist eine gute Aufgabe im Fach Bildnerisches Gestalten? – Teilfragestellung im Projekt ‘Kalkül und Kontingenz’” (What is a good problem in the subject of Fine Arts? – Inquiry within the project ‘Calculation and contingency’) in the seminar “Fachdidaktische und kunstpädagogische Theoriebildung I” (Theory of teaching methodology and art education theory I), ZHdK, 20 November 2015 (conceived and realized by Helen Hagenbuch, Daniela Wettstein, Roland Nyffeler).

    • Course on the topic: “(Un)Sichtbarkeit / Stimmungen / Gestimmtheit – Teilfragestellung im Projekt ‘Kalkül und Kontingenz’” ((In)visibility / Moods / Attunement – Inquiry within the project ‘Calculation and contingency’) in the seminar “Fachdidaktische und kunstpädagogische Theoriebildung I” (Theory of teaching methodology and art education theory I), ZHdK, 13 November 2015 (conceived and realized by Simon Harder and Christin Glauser).

    • Course on the topic: “Kontingenz und Incidental Space” (Contingency and incidental space) in the projectseminar “Incidental Space” (Head: Christian Kerez), ETH Zurich, 21 October 2015.

    • Research colloquium with external experts within the project “Kalkül und Kontingenz” (Calculation and contingency), 13/14 June 2015.

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