DANIELLE VOGEL

Research 8750
July 1, 2015

Problem:
Art Education is not important. Children need to focus on
those SCORES!!
No Child Left Behind

Significance of Problem

Time and funding for the arts have been increasingly slipping away.
When in fact, the arts could help improve their sought after scores.
Students are put under rigorous pressure to perform on tests, to get that score.
They are being tied down to the track and in threat of being run over!! Instead of being
offered an adventurous way to meet more realistic goals!

Research Question
How can using a process based lesson
promote a safe environment for inquiry &
dialogue?
What does a safe environment for learning look like?
How can incorporating a holistic approach to public
school curriculum build a safe learning environment?
How will this open inquiry, dialogue in the classroom?
How can this build community among students?
How can collaborative projects open dialogue?
Is a holistic approach an a/r/tographical approach?

Terms & Literature

A/r/tography
Constructivism
Safe Environment
Holistic Approach

Inquiry
Collaboration

John P. Miller : First, holistic education attempts to

nurture the development of the whole person. This

includes the intellectual, emotional, physical, social,
aesthetic, and spiritual. Perhaps the defining aspect of
holistic education is the spiritual.(pg. 2).

Spiritual- Spirituality is distinguished from religion, and

viewed as an awareness of the interconnectedness of
everyone and everything. (pg.18) Campbells article,
Holistic Art Education: a Transformative Approach to
Teaching Art

TERMS AND LIT

Process Based Learning- Engaging in any creative process while pursuing a
project with multiple steps or dimensions, which a student can make personal
connections to themselves, others, and the world around them. Through
transference and transmediation they can apply theories they are building to
their daily life and ultimately experience transformation on a personal level.

Nicole M. Gnezdas Article, Cognition and Emotions in the Creative Process

CreativityIt is a process of knowledge construction that emerges
from within a person and provides and experience rich with thought,
emotion, challenge, insight and hard work.

The 3 Ts
oTransference
oTransmediation
oTransformation

Theoretical Framework-A/r/tography

Stephanie Springgay and Rita Irwins article, A/rt/ography as Living Inquiry

Through Art and Text, It is about dwelling in a space of inquiry that resists
formal naming: A willingness to allow for discomfort, frayed edges, and
holes.

Lee Elementary

Methods &
Analysis
IBR Permission
and Consent:

Auto Ethnographic
MY EXPERIENCE AS
A PRESERVICE
TEACHER
LEE ELEMENTARY

Holistic approach?
5th grade MURALCOLLABORATION

Data Sources:
Self, teachers,
students, art
work, field
notes-journal

Not Necessary

Data Analysis:
Inquiry/REFLECTION
END of Semester
Review

Interviewing Teachers,
working with students
weekly, taking notes
daily at end of class

Data
Collection
Procedures:
Observation/
participation

Instrumentation
Tools:
Video, Photo, myself

Continue Research
Continue research during each field while in the
program looking at different teaching approaches,
inquiry/dialogue in students
Allow for more exploration

Assumptions
I know what is going on in the classroom from
a parents point of view-and what my kids tell
me!!
Most teachers in public schools can not apply
a holistic approach (WRONG-some are!!)
A safe environment for a teacher may not be
the same as a student
Teachers feel safe teaching
Kids will talk and inquire when they feel safe

Limitations
I have not had my own classroom in a public school
I am not a certified teacher YET, so I will patiently have
to wade through classes. (Looking for holes?)

Personal Bias-GROWING FURY

What challenges will I, as a teacher face incorporating a
holistic approach?
Approaching the topic of spirituality in the classroom
IRONY that the majority of early art is based in spirituality

Possible Findings/Discussion
Collaborative projects are going to lead to
strong growth among students
Students as a/r/tographer learners
Reflection process will help me narrow down
where and what I specifically want to focus on
(approach, age range I am comfortable
working with)
Kids are full of dialogue and inquiry if given
the time and space to create

References
Barrett, T. (2004). Improving Student Dialogue About Art. Teaching Artist
Journal, 2(2), 87-94.
Gnezda, N. M. (2011). Cognition and Emotions in the Creative Process. Art
Education, 64(1), 47-52.
Miller, J. P. (2005). Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New
Ground. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Springgay, S. (2005). A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text. Qualitative
Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1077800405280696

The end.

THANK YOU!!!