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Artists and Arts-Based Method Use in Higher Education: A Living Inquiry of an Academic Programme in a Faculty of Education

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Arts-based Methods and Organizational Learning

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We are told that we need new thinking in the current world crises of economics and global environmental concerns. We are also told that, in higher education, a new critically reflexive form of creative teaching and learning is required in order to address the task of reconciling the need for a stable, safe, ethical and empathetic world with the need for a productive, adaptive and creative workforce. In this chapter, we provide compelling evidence of transformative practices—pedagogies of possibility—developed from a funded initiative called Facultartem which featured an artist-in-residence who developed arts-based methods to enhance a Masters programme in a UK university. We critique the crucial role that arts-based methods have to play in understanding organisational learning in HE.

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    See the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Research Commission: Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for the twenty-first-century learning: How can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive, dynamic and inclusive form of education? https://www.bera.ac.uk/project/bera-research-commissions/reviewing-the-potential-and-challenges-of-developing-steam-education-2.

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    Pamela Burnard, Carol Holliday, Susanne Jasilek & Afrodita Nikolova

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  1. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Tatiana Chemi

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    Xiangyun Du

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Burnard, P., Holliday, C., Jasilek, S., Nikolova, A. (2018). Artists and Arts-Based Method Use in Higher Education: A Living Inquiry of an Academic Programme in a Faculty of Education. In: Chemi, T., Du, X. (eds) Arts-based Methods and Organizational Learning . Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63808-9_13

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