Art Education
Program Overview
Our mission is to inspire, engage and provoke educators to understand, inquire into, and model curricular and pedagogical possibilities of deep involvement with the visual arts in culture and society. Within a large research orientated university situated on traditional Musqueam land, the Art Education Program strives to:
Stimulate and conduct research within a vibrant and collaborative research community that focuses on methodologies and content relevant to the visual arts in culture and society.
Provide for, model, and develop socially responsible and ecologically aware exemplary teaching practices in and across contexts with a focus on the visual arts in culture and society.
Provide leadership, and engage with local, national, and international arts and culture organizations and professionals.
The research interests of faculty in Art Education are diverse. They encourage a wide spectrum of student inquiry: art based research, a/r/tography, art curriculum, early childhood, teacher education, First Nations art and education, histories of art education, multiculturalism, museum and gallery education, perception and cognition, studio practices, technology and visual culture, theory/practice relationships, and gender studies. For more information on research in art education, please see the a/r/tography site.
Program Overview
Our mission is to inspire, engage and provoke educators to understand, inquire into, and model curricular and pedagogical possibilities of deep involvement with the visual arts in culture and society. Within a large research orientated university situated on traditional Musqueam land, the Art Education Program strives to:
Stimulate and conduct research within a vibrant and collaborative research community that focuses on methodologies and content relevant to the visual arts in culture and society.
Provide for, model, and develop socially responsible and ecologically aware exemplary teaching practices in and across contexts with a focus on the visual arts in culture and society.
Provide leadership, and engage with local, national, and international arts and culture organizations and professionals.
The research interests of faculty in Art Education are diverse. They encourage a wide spectrum of student inquiry: art based research, a/r/tography, art curriculum, early childhood, teacher education, First Nations art and education, histories of art education, multiculturalism, museum and gallery education, perception and cognition, studio practices, technology and visual culture, theory/practice relationships, and gender studies. For more information on research in art education, please see the a/r/tography site.
ASAD contact details
Name of institution or organisation
The University of British Columbia
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
c/o Rita L. Irwin
Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UBC
2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Description
Working collaboratively with colleague Dr. Ruth Beer at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (also in Vancouver) to raise awareness for Arctic environmental and social issues through visual aesthetic engagement.
Keywords
Research intensive, social justice, indigenous perspectives, professional preparation, world leader, leading innovations
ASAD Coordinator or contact person
Rita L. Irwin | Ed.D.
Art Education & Curriculum Studies | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy
Faculty of Education | The University of British Columbia | 2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone 604 822 5322 | Fax 604 822 4714
rita.irwin@ubc.ca
Website
a/r/tography.edcp.educ.ubc.ca
Publications
Please provide links to any publications that may be of interest to ASAD members
Triggs, V., Irwin, R. L., & Leggo, C. (2014). Walking art: Sustaining ourselves as arts educators. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art 3(1), 21-34.
Irwin, Rita L. (2006). Walking to create an aesthetic and spiritual currere. Visual Arts Research. 32(1), 75-82.
Kind, Sylvia, Irwin, Rita L., Grauer, Kit, & de Cosson, Alex. (2005). Medicine wheel imag(in)ings: Exploring holistic curriculum perspectives. Art Education, 58(5), 33-38.
Irwin, Rita. L., Rogers, Tony, & Reynolds, J. Karen. (2000). In the spirit of gathering. Canadian Review of Art Education, 27(2), 51-72.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1999). Making connections through cultural memory, cultural performance and cultural translation. Studies in Art Education, 40(3), 198-212.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony, & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1998). Life stories of Aboriginal artists. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 16, 77-91.
Rogers, Tony, & Irwin, Rita L. (1998). Art and indigenous cultures - a comparison with the Canadian experience. Australian Art Education, 21(2), 36-43.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1998). Reclamation, reconcilation and reconstruction: Art practices of contemporary Aboriginal artists from Canada, Australia and Taiwan. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 16, 93-101.
Irwin, Rita L. (1998). Roots/routes as arterial connections for art educators advocating for aboriginal cultures. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 18, 29-48.
Irwin, Rita L. & Miller, Lorrie. (1997). Oral history as community-based participatory research: Learning from First Nations women artists. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 15, 10-23.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony, & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1997). Belonging to the land: Understanding Aboriginal art and culture. Journal of Art and Design Education, 16, 315-318.
Irwin, Rita L. & Rogers, Tony. (1997). The Irrelevance of multiculturalism. Kaurna Higher Education Journal, 6, 43-48.
Rogers, Tony & Irwin, Rita L. (1997). Video-conferencing for collaborative educational inquiry. Art Education, 49(5), 57-62.
Rogers, Tony & Irwin, Rita L. (1997). Language and indigenous cultures: A key to understanding. Canadian Review of Art Education, 24(1), 19-32.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Farrell, Ruby. (1997). The politics of culture and the work of contemporary Aboriginal artists. Journal of the Canadian Society for Education through Art, 28(1), 17-22.
The University of British Columbia
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
c/o Rita L. Irwin
Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, UBC
2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Description
Working collaboratively with colleague Dr. Ruth Beer at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (also in Vancouver) to raise awareness for Arctic environmental and social issues through visual aesthetic engagement.
Keywords
Research intensive, social justice, indigenous perspectives, professional preparation, world leader, leading innovations
ASAD Coordinator or contact person
Rita L. Irwin | Ed.D.
Art Education & Curriculum Studies | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy
Faculty of Education | The University of British Columbia | 2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone 604 822 5322 | Fax 604 822 4714
rita.irwin@ubc.ca
Website
a/r/tography.edcp.educ.ubc.ca
Publications
Please provide links to any publications that may be of interest to ASAD members
Triggs, V., Irwin, R. L., & Leggo, C. (2014). Walking art: Sustaining ourselves as arts educators. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art 3(1), 21-34.
Irwin, Rita L. (2006). Walking to create an aesthetic and spiritual currere. Visual Arts Research. 32(1), 75-82.
Kind, Sylvia, Irwin, Rita L., Grauer, Kit, & de Cosson, Alex. (2005). Medicine wheel imag(in)ings: Exploring holistic curriculum perspectives. Art Education, 58(5), 33-38.
Irwin, Rita. L., Rogers, Tony, & Reynolds, J. Karen. (2000). In the spirit of gathering. Canadian Review of Art Education, 27(2), 51-72.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1999). Making connections through cultural memory, cultural performance and cultural translation. Studies in Art Education, 40(3), 198-212.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony, & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1998). Life stories of Aboriginal artists. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 16, 77-91.
Rogers, Tony, & Irwin, Rita L. (1998). Art and indigenous cultures - a comparison with the Canadian experience. Australian Art Education, 21(2), 36-43.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1998). Reclamation, reconcilation and reconstruction: Art practices of contemporary Aboriginal artists from Canada, Australia and Taiwan. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 16, 93-101.
Irwin, Rita L. (1998). Roots/routes as arterial connections for art educators advocating for aboriginal cultures. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 18, 29-48.
Irwin, Rita L. & Miller, Lorrie. (1997). Oral history as community-based participatory research: Learning from First Nations women artists. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 15, 10-23.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony, & Wan, Yuh-Yao. (1997). Belonging to the land: Understanding Aboriginal art and culture. Journal of Art and Design Education, 16, 315-318.
Irwin, Rita L. & Rogers, Tony. (1997). The Irrelevance of multiculturalism. Kaurna Higher Education Journal, 6, 43-48.
Rogers, Tony & Irwin, Rita L. (1997). Video-conferencing for collaborative educational inquiry. Art Education, 49(5), 57-62.
Rogers, Tony & Irwin, Rita L. (1997). Language and indigenous cultures: A key to understanding. Canadian Review of Art Education, 24(1), 19-32.
Irwin, Rita L., Rogers, Tony & Farrell, Ruby. (1997). The politics of culture and the work of contemporary Aboriginal artists. Journal of the Canadian Society for Education through Art, 28(1), 17-22.
