Provoking the Field

Rita L. Irwin

ISBN 10: 1783209917 / ISBN 13: 9781783209910

Published by Intellect, GB, 2019

About this Item

Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. Divided into three parts - doctoral processes, doctoral practices and doctoral programmes - the volume interrogates education in both formal and informal learning environments, ranging from schools to post-secondary institutions to community and adult education. This book brings together a global range of authors to examine visual arts PhDs using diverse theoretical perspectives; innovative arts and hybrid methodologies; institutional relationships and scholarly practices; and voices from the field in the form of site-specific cases. A compendium of leading voices in arts education, Provoking the Field provides a diverse range of perspectives on arts enquiry, and a comprehensive study of the state of visual arts PhDs in education.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Provoking the Field
• Publisher: Intellect, GB
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783209917
• ISBN 13: 9781783209910
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 445 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. Divided into three parts--doctoral processes, doctoral practices, and doctoral programs--the volume interrogates education in both formal and informal learning environments, ranging from schools to post-secondary institutions to community and adult education.
 
This book brings together a global range of authors to examine visual arts PhDs using diverse theoretical perspectives; innovative arts and hybrid methodologies; institutional relationships and scholarly practices; and voices from the field in the form of site-specific cases. A compendium of leading voices in arts education, Provoking the Field provides a diverse range of perspectives on arts enquiry, and a comprehensive study of the state of visual arts PhDs in education.
 

About the Authors

Rita L. Irwin is a settler of European ancestry living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nations. She is also a Distinguished University Scholar, professor of art education and curriculum studies, former associate dean of teacher education, and head of the Department of Curriculum Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Anita Sinner is professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with emphasis on creative geographies in education.