Thinking Differently about Teaching and Learning: Using the Arts as a Mode of Inquiry

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29650

Abstract

The author examines how engagement with artistic encounters embedded within an integrated arts course designed for pre-service teachers provides students with opportunities to think differently about teaching and learning.

Author Biography

Kelly Demers, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire

Kelly E. Demers is an Associate Professor of Education at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches courses on multicultural perspectives, ESOL instruction, and arts integration. Her research interests include the exploration of White teachers’ construction of race, racial ideologies, and the use of the arts as a mode of thinking. This work is rooted in critical multicultural education, decolonizing frameworks, and posthumanist theory. Dr. Demers received her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, a Master of Education from Lesley University, and a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory. She was also a public-school teacher in Somerville, Massachusetts for seven-years.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9153-7740

Green and Black Light, a photograph by Chandam Suman

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Published

2022-12-17

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022): Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity

Section

Articles, Illustrations and Verse