Purnima Ruanglertbutr

Wesley Imms

Art, Teaching, Life : Catalogue of the Third Annual Teacher Artmaker Project Exhibition

Connections

Thomas Kvan

This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments. It offers a significant evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field by designers, architects, educators and policy makers. It presents twenty-five cutting-edge projects from researchers in fifteen countries. Thanks to the book’s comprehensive international perspective, which combines theory and practice in a single publication, readers will gain a wealth of new insights.

A Global Perspective

Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments

Connections: Teaching, Art, Life is the third annual Teacher Artmaker Project (TAP) exhibition. The artworks in this exhibition are created by professional artist-teachers who are striving to balance their teaching, art making, and personal lives. Through this research exhibition, 30 early-career teachers explore how these aspects of their daily lives can connect, rather than conflict. This exhibition is important in its own right, in that finding time to make and exhibit art is a challenge to all newly graduated art teachers. This is an important exhibition - it is one part of a larger research project administered by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. As a consequence, this full-colour catalogue comprises two sections. The first contains reflective statements by the artists, each of whom have articulated how they balance art production and being a teacher, two seemingly disparate worlds. The second contains a research report concerning trends in the Teacher Artmaker Project research data to date. This, then, is a research catalogue that simultaneously celebrates participants’ art making products and their reflections, while placing these into a wider research context relevant to the ‘artist-teacher’ phenomenon.

Wesley Imms

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