Highlights Art Education

Image: Valentin:e Brasser © Recht auf Wir 2023
Image: Valentin:e Brasser © Recht auf Wir 2023

    «As a researcher, I find myself at times in the middle of teaching or educational situations and take part in them, other times I consciously move between fields and disciplines. It is important to continuously reflect on this particular situatedness and make it productive for research in art education». 

    Prof. Dr. Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel, on behalf of the Research in Art Education team 

      Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

      In 2023, the embedding of research in the study programs and its significance for practice in the various professional fields of Art Education, in higher education development, and in civil society continued to be key and unifying characteristics of the diverse activities, academic contributions and sub-projects in Research in Art Education.

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        Promotion of Talents and Careers

        Claudia Mörgeli, an alumna of ZHdK’s MA in Art Education and a lecturer at Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZH), became the first student to graduate from the PhD programme in Fachdidaktik Art & Design. Her doctoral thesis – «Dialogisch ästhetisch-forschendes Lernen am individuellen Artefakt» – also involved research at an elementary school. 

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        © Claudia Mörgeli

          Cooperation and Internationality

          How can we strengthen discourse and diciplinary development in Art(s) Education? Guided by the principle of «learning from each other», the project develops and reflects on new forms of collaboration and connects professional and academic perspectives: «collaeb» invites researchers and practitioners to help shape the international art education community at the interfaces of teaching and research. 

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          Launch "collaeb", image: Martina Egli

            External Funding

            The collaborative research project «Right for We» (2022–2025) addresses social inclusion and exclusion, power relations and privileges in art, culture, education and public space. This cooperation between ZHdK (Leading House), HSLU (Socio-Cultural Animation) and PH-FHNW is funded by the Federal Commission on Migration. The aim of the project is to develop practice-based projects that involve the public.

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            Tiny Food Forest ZHdK 2023. Image: Jolanda Jerg

              Teaching-Research Transfer

              Based on the action research approach and focusing on the question of professional implicitness, the project team linked the preliminary study «Wie kunstpädagogisches Wissen verhandelbar machen?» (2022–2023) methodologically and content-wise with the research internship in the MA Art Education, and pursued and finalized the project with the aim of a joint conference in 2024.

              Image: Margot Zanni

                Event Highlight

                The international symposium «Critical Sustainability?» was held on September 29th, 2023. It aimed to extend the public discourse on sustainability to include inequality, power relations, coloniality, normativity and responsibility, and thus to raise awareness of the manifold connections between these issues.

                Image: Valentin:e Brasser. © Recht auf Wir 2023

                  Reading Tip I

                  The publication «Auf der Suche nach der fünften Dimension. Kollaboration und Digitalität in der Kunstpädagogik» documents an online conference that was developed together with various art education researchers and practitioners. The reflection on the approaches initiated in the state of emergency of the pandemic for the research-based further development of current and future teaching and learning practices encourages further (inter)disciplinary thinking about collaborative digital work in Art Education.

                  Book cover design: Selina Schlumpf

                    Reading Tip II

                    The findings of «A Questioning Situation» (2022–2023), an exploratory research project on developing methodological approaches to teaching art, were published in a volume that reflects the current state of affairs and provides insights into the applied research methods and the resulting findings. 

                    Image: Janina Krepart