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An Action Research On Enacting Play-Based Pedagogy In A Pre-Service Teachers' Art Classroom, Yuting Ye
An Action Research On Enacting Play-Based Pedagogy In A Pre-Service Teachers' Art Classroom, Yuting Ye
Theses and Dissertations
As a school-based art educator, I advocate for an educational environment that embraces and values concepts of play and play-based pedagogy and encourage understandings of the significant role of play in teaching and learning and its relation to art, artifacts, and multiculturalism. This thesis documents an action research project, reflecting a dialogue about play-based art education in a college classroom. As a social constructivist and an advocate for multiculturalism, I introduced knowledge on play-based pedagogy and its benefits to college students and studied my practices in relation to student learning, especially those students in pre-service teacher education programs. Concepts associated …
Enacting Place: A Comparative Case Study, Anna Grosch
Enacting Place: A Comparative Case Study, Anna Grosch
Theses and Dissertations
As a community-based art educator, I advocate for an arts-based educational environment that embraces postmodern tenets and encourages individuals to reflect on self and society in relation to the places in which they dwell and learn. This thesis is a dialogue on emplaced community-based art education. Issues of urban education, social justice, and critical pedagogy are considered in relation to participants’ enactments of place within two distinct community-based educational settings. In order to investigate the connections between a culture of place, place-based education, and the community-based programs of each site, the role of art and artifacts was carefully considered in …