{"title":"Mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion: Illuminating the dynamics of affect in practices of artful teaching and learning in social education in Denmark","authors":"Jennifer Ann Skriver, Julie Borup Jensen","doi":"10.1177/14740222231200409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231200409","url":null,"abstract":"This article maps affective operations in artful teaching practices in Social Education at a University College in Denmark to make visible the ways affect shapes experience, behavior, and forms of social connection. The article contributes to the fields of playful learning and aesthetic learning in higher education through its application of a relational and situated approach to affectivity as a new line of inquiry illuminating the dynamics of affect in artful educational practices. We argue that bringing considerations of affectivity to the study of artful educational practices utilized as a catalyst for playful learning in Social Education has: (1) important implications for how we might leverage the affective power of bodies learning together (Harris, Jones, 2021) for designing and developing inclusive playful learning encounters; (2) important implications for how we might better understand the exclusive dynamics and micropolitical dimensions of aesthetic practices in order to better respond to the inherent power structures and nuanced nature of privilege.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artistic co-creation: How art students view co-creation and how it could be integrated in the arts curriculum","authors":"Elena SV Flys, Anna Matamala","doi":"10.1177/14740222231200406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231200406","url":null,"abstract":"Co-creation has been used across disciplines and within the arts for quite some time. This article aims to analyze what students from a university devoted to the arts understand by the term “co-creation” and how these students suggest evaluating co-creation. It also aims to compare this with the professional’s perception to relate the curriculum to what is relevant in the cultural industry. Thus, we discuss how co-creation processes could be integrated into the arts curriculum Higher Education. Through the application of this research to arts education, students, professionals, and communities can benefit from more enriched, engaged experiences with art.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134969936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories from third space — A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point","authors":"Maria Hellström Reimer, Ramia Mazé","doi":"10.1177/14740222231200183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231200183","url":null,"abstract":"Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a ‘Third Space’ and drawing on a case – the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education (2008–2015) – we discuss what ‘thirdness’ can entail in context. Our account of this case reveals the unsettled dynamics of navigating in, between and across academic cultures. Design research education, we argue, has prospects to cultivate a critical space within academia, in which its ‘thirdness’ entails sensitization and agitation of the territorial conditions of knowledge. There is a need for a reconsideration of design – and academia more generally – not as a static disciplinary order but as a contested archipelago that opens for alternative orientations.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135825986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No time to read? How precarity is shaping learning and teaching in the humanities","authors":"Helena Kadmos, Jessica Taylor","doi":"10.1177/14740222231190338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231190338","url":null,"abstract":"Humanities educators are frequently frustrated by students’ poor engagement in reading. The contemporary student experience is characterised by disruption and precarity. Similarly, is that of teachers who work in casual employment. This discussion is located within broader conversations around the neoliberal university, but aims to make more visible ways that teaching and learning are increasingly shaped by precarity, and consequences for the humanities. It describes what precarity in higher education looks like and considers the kinds of strategies that students and their teachers are positioned to develop by virtue of engaging in education under such conditions, amid chaos, making these meaningful through the learning theory of connectivism. This discussion points to some examples of humanities-based pedagogical innovations that seek to strengthen reading skills, while also acknowledging the changing circumstances of students to point towards avenues for ongoing consideration, reflection, and innovation in the humanities.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World humanities - Towards an ontology of policy","authors":"Andrew Gibson, Søren SE Bengtsen","doi":"10.1177/14740222231189806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231189806","url":null,"abstract":"The border-crossing nature of science is well recognised, and has long been a focus of policy-makers with an interest in governing this space. The international aspect of the humanities is less clearly understood, and the extent to which it has been a focus of policy is similarly not well conceptualised. UNESCO’s efforts in this area provide a useful corpus of texts through which international humanities policy can be explored. Drawing on Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics, this paper considers what UNESCO’s attempts at developing international humanities policy have to say about the ontological status of the humanities, and of policy itself. In setting out an ontology of policy, it generates a concept of ‘world humanities’ as a means of reconstituting the humanities its own specific mode of inquiry and form of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49238912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary attachment and the American spoken-word song: An interarts-based reading pedagogy","authors":"Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim","doi":"10.1177/14740222231174607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231174607","url":null,"abstract":"Have we been teaching reading well? Close reading has been the signature practice in literary studies. More recently, however, postcritique has polemically revised this traditional mode of teaching reading. This essay proposes the initial framework for a novel arts-based pedagogy based on Spoken-Word Song, bridging critical literary interpretation and teacher-student co-created artistic performance. Spoken-Word Song is here cast as a privileged means for allowing university students to become intellectually and emotionally invested in poetry, following precepts of the affective turn in the humanities. Moving from theory to practice, this paper will contextualize Spoken-Word Song within three domains before describing the practical steps of my pedagogy: (1) its relevance to contemporary literary theory, (2) a brief overview of the American Spoken-Word Song and (3) Spoken Word pedagogies currently practiced in the American educational system.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42101065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural stories: Curriculum design learnings from an arts-based Australian university project in Timor-Leste","authors":"R. Mathews, Kym Stevens, G. Meijer","doi":"10.1177/14740222231165905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231165905","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the preparation of Australian undergraduate university arts students for a life challenging arts-teaching and creative experience in Timor-Leste. It explores university teaching practice and how we may achieve better student experiences in preparation for their futures as teaching artists. This narrative inquiry research hears the voices of the students through their individual, personal stories. The emerging teaching artists articulate challenges, identify shifts in beliefs and values, and confirm skills that are transferable to cultural arts teaching contexts in the future. In all, the research has resulted in 46 recommendations, some minor, and some requiring more significant structural changes that affect course delivery. For the purposes of this paper, we reflect on and discuss three of the major findings and recommendations in the pedagogical, cultural, and artistic areas of the project implementation. As such, this paper represents a reflective analysis of some of the findings regarding curriculum design within this project.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48675783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A systematic literature review of cognitive exchange in higher degree visual art education","authors":"Rebecca Heaton, Shannon Chan Lai Kuan","doi":"10.1177/14740222231165907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231165907","url":null,"abstract":"This literature review paper presents ways cognitive exchange occurs in higher degree visual art education. It also attempts to demystify concerns regarding the value and presence of cognitive exchange in art education, this is because cognitive exchange is not considered in art education with the same breadth or depth as in higher education. Cognitive exchange research in higher degree visual art education is limited but there has been a surge in interest about cognitive functioning in higher education. It is therefore timely to consider how cognitive exchange is understood across visual art practices at this level. This paper presents a two phased systematic review, where cognitive exchange literature in the higher degree context is considered alongside such literature in art education. Four spaces: the individual, social, pedagogic, and policy orientated are discussed to present cognitive exchange practices in higher degree visual art education. The spaces and forms of cognitive exchange profiled, provide a knowledge contribution to disciplines that intersect with the arts and humanities. This is because they mobilize where and how cognitive exchange forms, they present opportunities and uses for cognitive exchange and help suggest ways to support its growth.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"368 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42341991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia","authors":"Silvia McCormack, P. Baron","doi":"10.1177/14740222231156888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231156888","url":null,"abstract":"In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goal of all universities and is driving federal government funding changes. We surveyed 17 Directors of Learning and Teaching in HASS across Australia’s 37 public universities to ascertain their views on how employability has affected HASS. Our thematic analysis of questionnaire results reveals a highly complex and, at times, contradictory picture of the relationship between HASS and employability.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"164 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48198793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A mismatch: Why non-tenured teachers are ill-prepared to deal with the perceived job insecurity of students in the humanities","authors":"Vincent Crone","doi":"10.1177/14740222231156886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231156886","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the instructional workforce within the humanities in countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and The Netherlands comprises non-tenure track appointments. This commentary is a starting point in thinking about what the meaning and consequences are of far-reaching casualization for humanities education. Based on my experience as a supervisor of non-tenured early-career teachers in the humanities and on an international exploration of the position of the so-called precariat, I describe the competing, and perhaps irreconcilable, discourses on the importance of the humanities for society and the labour market which these non-tenured teachers must navigate. These discourses put especially non-tenured academics, who are themselves in a very precarious, in an even more disempowered space that is not only detrimental to these non-tenured teachers but also to the students who must learn to deal with perceived job insecurity.","PeriodicalId":45787,"journal":{"name":"Arts and Humanities in Higher Education","volume":"22 1","pages":"183 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45976276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}