Session Information
15 SES 06, The Power of Design in Open Innovation: Transforming Knowledge in Institutional Cooperation and Partnerships
Symposium
Contribution
This paper explores an arts-based approach which emphasises the artistic process as a means for professional development in education. The arts-based research method ‘Getting a Picture’ by art educator Marianne Sorge is aimed at enabling participants to generate a (self-reflective) picture of a given issue or question through metaphoric and associative illustration, peer discussion, (con)textualisation and contemplation. The self-reflective quality of artistic thought and action provides an opportunity to render one’s own professional understanding in practice - one’s professional identity - visible. The perpetual formation and negotiation of this professional identity can be seen as a central aspect to professionalisation processes in education as it forms the basis for handling the challenges of a complex practice. The paper will explain how participants of this approach are invited to engage self-reflectively with the question of professionalisation in education while at the same time investigating aspects of the broader social and institutional framework in which their practice is embedded. By working with an illustrative technique we are literally ‘Getting a Picture‘ of ourselves in practice which thereby also becomes tangible and workable.
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