Becoming Ecological

The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers' Agency in Arts Education

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2387161
AutoresBrooke (0000-0001-8231-5740, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia), A Macdonald (0000-0003-4774-0244, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia), Mary Ann Hunter (0000-0003-4159-0716, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia)
Año2025
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas201-215
Fecha de publicación2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10778004241231920
OpenAlexW4392712121
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas46

Internationally, it is widely acknowledged that many generalist primary teachers (GPTs) enter the teaching profession with a paucity of arts practice and pedagogic skills. Many perceive a lack of confidence, competence, and community to change this, particularly in regional and isolated teaching contexts. As a means to address this, this article considers the value of engaging in collaborative a/r/tography as a means of developing more creative ecological approaches to teacher professional development and learning. A multimodal storied assemblage of four primary teachers' experience of engaging in collaborative a/r/tography is explored, and through diffractive analysis, the authors surface the intra-acting affective agents that enable metho-pedagogic learning possibilities. Specific ways in which collaborative a/r/tography works to foster GPTs' curricula and metho-pedagogic sensibilities, as well as a sense of creative ecology, are addressed. Speculation as to the ways in which collaborative a/r/tography fosters GPTs "becoming ecological" in relational practices and processes of curriculum enactment and pedagogical engagement is offered thereby contributing to understandings of the generative capacity of a/r/tography as a framework for developing teacher agency and change

Agency (philosophy · Art · Biology · Ethnography · Generalist and specialist species · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Primary education · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology · Ecology