Emergency Remote Studio Teaching: Notes from the Field
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| Title: | Emergency Remote Studio Teaching: Notes from the Field |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Winters, Tara |
| Source: | Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Apr 2021 10:117-126. |
| Availability: | Indiana University. 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bryan Hall 203B, Bloomington, IN 47405. Tel: 317-274-5647; Fax: 317-278-2360; e-mail: josotl@iu.edu; Web site: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jotlt |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 10 |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Distance Education, Studio Art, College Faculty, COVID-19, Pandemics, Visual Arts, Web Based Instruction, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Videoconferencing |
| Geographic Terms: | New Zealand |
| ISSN: | 2165-2554 |
| Abstract: | The creative arts use primarily visual, kinesthetic, and somatic modes of teaching that depend on face-to-face communication in contrast to many other university subjects that rely more heavily on the written word. The hands-on, practice-based nature of art education makes it perhaps one of the least transferrable subjects to a fully online model. What can be learnt, then, from the forced situation of teaching and supervising studio-based learning in a higher education context under the 2019 coronavirus disease lockdown conditions? This reflective essay draws on the writer's experience as a fine arts lecturer involved in emergency remote teaching of studio-based visual arts courses during the first half of the 2020 academic year. Organized as a series of "fieldnotes," it aims to capture those fleeting, yet significant, thoughts and reflections so easily lost once things quickly reach a level of "new normal." Notes from the field include the effects of the shifted social dynamic of online communications in a teaching and learning context; the challenges of the video call as a dialogic space for the studio critique; the impact of the more structured nature of online systems with regard to documenting and recording creative work in progress; and the affordances of the dynamic, multimodal nature of the digital medium for working with contextual research material for creative practice. Developed as a pedagogical perspective combining reflection in action and reflection on action, this essay offers firsthand observations and discussion, in the context of relevant literature, as a contribution to urgent conversations on the shape of the future learning environment. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2021 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1294640 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The creative arts use primarily visual, kinesthetic, and somatic modes of teaching that depend on face-to-face communication in contrast to many other university subjects that rely more heavily on the written word. The hands-on, practice-based nature of art education makes it perhaps one of the least transferrable subjects to a fully online model. What can be learnt, then, from the forced situation of teaching and supervising studio-based learning in a higher education context under the 2019 coronavirus disease lockdown conditions? This reflective essay draws on the writer's experience as a fine arts lecturer involved in emergency remote teaching of studio-based visual arts courses during the first half of the 2020 academic year. Organized as a series of "fieldnotes," it aims to capture those fleeting, yet significant, thoughts and reflections so easily lost once things quickly reach a level of "new normal." Notes from the field include the effects of the shifted social dynamic of online communications in a teaching and learning context; the challenges of the video call as a dialogic space for the studio critique; the impact of the more structured nature of online systems with regard to documenting and recording creative work in progress; and the affordances of the dynamic, multimodal nature of the digital medium for working with contextual research material for creative practice. Developed as a pedagogical perspective combining reflection in action and reflection on action, this essay offers firsthand observations and discussion, in the context of relevant literature, as a contribution to urgent conversations on the shape of the future learning environment. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-2554 |
