{"title":"Exploring the Artistic Identity of Elementary Art Teachers","authors":"Tara Carpenter Estrada, Molly Neves, Connie Broadbent, Kara Aina, Rachel Wadham","doi":"10.1111/jade.12557","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Art teachers straddle two identities those of a teacher and those of an artist. While these two identities may complement each other it is clear that, particularly for elementary art teachers, they are often in conflict. As art teachers look towards balancing this dichotomy, they must discover what is necessary to equalise and maintain both their teaching and artistic identities. This self-study offers the practical reflections of three elementary art teachers to identify some trends and connections between developing teacher identities and the strategies they use to maintain an artistic identity. Discovering how elementary art teachers prioritise their own artistic practice shows us that as they balance both identities, they can gain energy and inspiration from their practice while at the same time allowing their students to benefit from their deeper understanding of the art world.</p>","PeriodicalId":45973,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"44 1","pages":"227-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Art & Design Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jade.12557","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Art teachers straddle two identities those of a teacher and those of an artist. While these two identities may complement each other it is clear that, particularly for elementary art teachers, they are often in conflict. As art teachers look towards balancing this dichotomy, they must discover what is necessary to equalise and maintain both their teaching and artistic identities. This self-study offers the practical reflections of three elementary art teachers to identify some trends and connections between developing teacher identities and the strategies they use to maintain an artistic identity. Discovering how elementary art teachers prioritise their own artistic practice shows us that as they balance both identities, they can gain energy and inspiration from their practice while at the same time allowing their students to benefit from their deeper understanding of the art world.
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The International Journal of Art & Design Education (iJADE) provides an international forum for research in the field of the art and creative education. It is the primary source for the dissemination of independently refereed articles about the visual arts, creativity, crafts, design, and art history, in all aspects, phases and types of education contexts and learning situations. The journal welcomes articles from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to research, and encourages submissions from the broader fields of education and the arts that are concerned with learning through art and creative education.