At the Chair of Art Education | Art and its Didactics, we are continuously developing a diverse range of courses at the interface between art and education. The courses are aimed at students of all grades and degree programmes who are interested in methods of teaching, learning and communication, or in artistic strategies and methods of aesthetic research that take communication into account.
The seminars provide insight into the discourses and history of the subject, but always aim at their practical applicability in school or extracurricular teaching. A variety of teaching formats (seminars, input, workshops, exercises, projects) provide inspiration for planning and questioning art lessons with regard to the plural learning processes of a diverse student body. Here, school is reflected upon as a context in which existing social conditions are reproduced, but also renegotiated. Special attention is paid to showing as a critical practice.
Art education knowledge arises essentially from the testing, reflection and analysis of practice: courses therefore focus on approaches to action and practice research, build on concrete experiences and make decisive use of methods of aesthetic research.
Transnational and transdisciplinary contextualisations are a means for the chair to stimulate a change of perspective on art education in a global, postcolonial context; concepts critical of power and discrimination can provide tools for reflecting on art education thinking and practice.
Finally, the chair at the academy is developing an attractive transitional space in which the desire to experiment, to discover one's own role models, and the joy of joint action (co-creation, collective forms of work) and reflection (practical research, interdisciplinarity) in the field of art and education are revived. In its interface function and through collaborations, this conceptual and material space also aims to infiltrate existing structures and habits – and have a positive, ‘contagious’ effect.
Persons
Prof. Notburga Karl | Chair of Art Education and Didactics
Ann-Jasmin Ullrich, M.A., | Research Assistant
N.N. | Programme Coordinator |