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SUMMARY:‘Arts-based’ and ‘STEAMed’ research approaches: Intersecti
 ons of interdisciplinary research with visual and performing intercultural
  arts practices - Professor Pamela Burnard\, Faculty of Education
DTSTART:20161122T180000Z
DTEND:20161122T190000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In the academic world\, theories often divide the world into h
 egemonic categories\, such as nation-states and fixed ethnic groups.   Rec
 ently\, a paradigm shift (as in Kuhnian science) has occurred leading to t
 he use of arts practices as research methods and in order to respond to th
 eories and approaches to understanding human conditions that have reduced 
 the complexity of life meaning.  Visual arts\, dance and music are artform
 s which challenge and offer new ways of viewing and alternative ways of kn
 owing through seeing and embodiment\, that raise new research questions an
 d produce new subject positions through participant-performers. Dance\, mu
 sic\, the visual arts movingly engage audience-spectators in research. The
  body\, the voice\, and the form is the site/sight/cite of difference from
  which a variety of theoretical positions provoke and intervene using spec
 ific research tools embodied in arts practice\, releasing and constructing
  new meaning. How these performance\, objects\, and productions serve as 
 ‘research’ will be discussed and illustrated in this session. \n\nThis
  session is concerned with interdisciplinarity (including arts and science
 ) and interculturality and how they draw attention to new insights for und
 erstanding a changed world. The environmental Arts\, STEM\, and STEAM rese
 arch projects reported in this session are drawn from a recently funded BE
 RA research commission (and subsequent projects) which problematise STEM-t
 o-STEAM as pedagogic practices. This research features the use of arts-bas
 ed research methods (and arts-based pedagogies) to illuminate the dynamics
  of exchange across cultures and disciplines\, bringing out connections an
 d interconnections between.\n\nThe visual arts research reported in the se
 ssion focuses on ways that art practices enable the construction of new kn
 owledge.  What may be thought of as universal and stabilizing about the vi
 sual arts is only a small part of the complex and wide-ranging character o
 f the aesthetic.  Visual arts-based research also enables new knowledge by
  constructing\, interrogating\, and destabilizing cultural conditions and 
 positions.  The connective and persuasive power of visual research methods
  will be discussed using categories of data collection and presentation ap
 propriate for visual information and expressive forms.  Student research i
 mages and an example of the art of curation will be shown to illustrate in
 terdisciplinary and intercultural investigation. \n\n*Pamela Burnard* is P
 rofessor of Arts\, Creativities and Education at the Faculty of Education\
 , and Bye Fellow\, Homerton College\, University of Cambridge\, (https:www
 .educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/Burnard/). She convenes the British Education
 al Research Association (BERA) Special Interest Group\, Creativities in Ed
 ucation (https://www.bera.ac.uk/group/creativities-in-education)\, and the
  biennial international conference\, Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Ac
 ross Cultures and Creativities (www.BIBACC.org). She is an international a
 uthority on creativities research and has published widely on creative tea
 ching and learning and the expanded conceptualization of diverse creativit
 ies across education sectors and creative industries. Her most recent co-e
 dited 2016 publication\, The Routledge International Handbook of Intercult
 ural Arts Research\, was motivated by the collective interest and energy o
 f all those who supported the launch of the Creativities Intercultural Art
 s Network (CIAN) and the CIAN Fora Series held in Homerton College across 
 2012. 
LOCATION:Paston Brown Room\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B2 8PH
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