Highlights Art Education

Research Internship MAE-KP, © Margot Zanni 2020
Research Internship MAE-KP, © Margot Zanni 2020

    «The diverse expertise of the Research in Art Education team enables us to expand educational practices as well as their theorisation to make them available for the field. Thereby, we develop a qualified and specific art education research profile.»

    A statement by the Research in Art Education team (RiAE)

        Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

        In 2020, the strands of Research in Art Education (RiAE) delivered numerous joint presentations, were responsible for panels and participated in several international conferences. We managed to increase the visibility of the field and of our specific approaches, and were able to create impact beyond the field through expanding interdisciplinary considerations.

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          Promotion of Talents and Careers

          The promotion of young researchers is an important basis for establishing and advancing the theorisation and development of art education as a discipline. In 2020, several PhD candidates continued working on their dissertation projects and junior staff were actively involved in ongoing RiAE research projects.

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            Cooperation and Internationality

            In 2020, the RiAE actively engaged in numerous national and international cooperations. These included collaborations with art universities in German-speaking Switzerland and exchanges with French-speaking Switzerland. Internationally, exchanges with art institutions in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands were key.

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              External Funding

              In 2020, the RiAE consolidated the knowledge it has been building since its organisational realignment in 2019 and further grounded its development of teaching methods in research. This work resulted in two applications for external project funding.

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                Milestone

                The RiAE successfully completed its realignment by the end of 2020. Through project developments and applications, three research strands have been established and a fourth one has been developed. By fanning out these various strands, the RiAE created a nationally and internationally recognised research hub and network despite the restrictions imposed by the global pandemic.

                  International Peer Exchange

                  Under the title How to method Art Education? the RiAE team invited (inter)national peer experts and internal researchers to exchange ideas and information in autumn 2020. The event aimed to discuss content-related correspondences within and the challenges of advancing research in art education, and thereby to help promote this research area both within and beyond ZHdK.

                  © Chantal Küng 2020

                    Transfer Research-Teaching

                    In 2020, the RiAE developed teaching based on its research findings, carried out research-based teaching and developed research activities out of affiliated teaching activities. Further, one project explored thinking differently about teaching through research. The RiAE, thus, contributed to methodological and didactic discourses, to developing teaching processes and to theory-building centred on educational and artistic practices.

                    © Margot Zanni 2020

                      Relevance

                      In 2020, the RiAE continued to pursue an urgent social mission by responding critically to and also actively shaping important developments in the field of education from the perspective of art: development of college education «Gymnasium 2022», education for sustainable development, anti-discriminating school settings, digitalisation, etc.).

                      © Margot Zanni 2020