Highlights Art Education

© Janina Krepart 2021
© Janina Krepart 2021
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«Which changes in art education and aesthetic-cultural practice are necessary and possible? Co-designing and reflecting on formats of coming together — whether in person or remotely — was one of our central challenges in 2021.»

Prof. Dr. Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel, Research in Art Education (RiAE)

«An interdisciplinary perspective on art pedagogy qualifies our research in art education. It focuses on artistic-educational practices, as well as their theorisation and transformation in terms of their social relevance.»

Dr. Anna Schürch, Research in Art Education (RiAE)

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Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

The publication process of the AER-online journals no. 20, co-authored by the entire team, played a key role in our discussions and exchanges. We also attended numerous international conferences and published several research articles.

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© Anna Schürch and Bernadett Settele 2021
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Promotion of Talents and Careers

Promoting emerging researchers lays an important foundation for establishing and advancing theory formation and for developing art education as a discipline. In 2021, several PhD projects were prepared and pursued within our team. We also enabled various emerging researchers to gain first-hand project and research experience. The PhD Programme in the Didactics of Art & Design was continued and once again received four years of funding from swissuniversities. Nine PhD projects were pursued within the framework of the programme.

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Cooperation and Internationality

2021 allowed for a close exchange with other Swiss German art universities. Fruitful discussions took place in particular within the framework of the Swiss Association for art education SFKP/SSPA. Internationally, the relations we fostered were dominated by art universities and colleagues in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

Based on the international PhD Programme in the Didactics of Art & Design and the online events series «What? How? And for Whom? Doctoral Studies in Art Education» initiated by the programme, we managed to significantly expand our exchanges and cooperations with other higher education institutions beyond Switzerland. Among others, we established cooperations with the Technical University of Dresden and internally with ZHdK’s E-Learning Centre.

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External Funding

In 2021, a preliminary project was co-financed through third-party funding. Additionally, a few other applications were submitted or prepared. Overall, we further established the interdisciplinary perspective on art education as a research hub with a steadily expanding national and international network and recognition. However, major restructuring is currently pending, whose impact on the organisational structure of research is not yet foreseeable.

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© Yaiza Cabrera and Laura Hew 2021
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Relevance for Educational Policy

In 2021, especially the research initiatives — «Knowledges in Art Pedagogy» and «Sustainability in Art Education Fields of Practice» — articulated critical responses from the perspective of the arts to important developments in the education sector («Weiterentwicklung der gymnasialen Maturität», Education for Sustainable Development, schools critical of discrimination, equal opportunities and diversity, cultural participation, etc.). Members of our team played an active role in shaping these developments.

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Transfer Research-Teaching

The annual event of the Art Education network-course, held in cooperation with the Master’s programmes of the four Swiss German art universities, exemplifies the transfer between research and teaching: The 2021 edition was dedicated to «Knowledges in Art Pedagogy» and resulted from the corresponding research project.

© Milos Stolic 2021
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Critical Pedagogy

Developing a theoretical approach via text-based engagement, its transfer into practice as well as ongoing teaching-based methodological development and teaching practice are central to researching artistic teaching. Identifying interfaces with other projects such as the cooperation project with microsillons (HEAD – Genève), dedicated to reinventing the pedagogy of the oppressed (Paolo Freire), also proved to be highly productive.

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Event Highlight

The two-day online conference «Auf der Suche nach der 5. Dimension» (In Search of the 5th Dimension) aimed to gather and work through experiences and discoveries in pandemic-related ad hoc distancing and ad hoc digitisation in the field of art education. The event was prepared in a collaborative work process lasting several months in a group of about 20 participants from Germany and Switzerland, from the fields of art teaching, higher education, and art and design education research.

Picture 1, Distance workshop, online conference «Auf der Suche nach der 5. Dimension»
Picture 2, Distance workshop, online conference «Auf der Suche nach der 5. Dimension»
© Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel
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