Art Education Research Research Articles

Current approaches and future trends in integrating digital education methods in Chinese traditional art education

Introduction. The modern information society has had a significant impact on the education systems of many countries around the world. It enables openness, accessibility, mobility and lifelong education. In recent years, arts institutions and educators have grappled with finding the right balance between traditional and digital arts education. Traditional art techniques have long been the foundation of art education in colleges and universities. Aim. This study aims to investigate the integration of digital education methods in Chinese traditional art education and examine future trends and directions in this field. Focusing on exploring current approaches and anticipating future developments, the research seeks to provide insights into the evolving landscape of digital integration within the context of Chinese traditional art education. Research methods. To achieve the research objectives a systematic review involved to conducting a comprehensive search of relevant literature, including academic journals and conference proceedings. Studies discussing various methods, technologies, and pedagogical approaches for incorporating digital education in traditional art education settings would be identified and synthesized. A systematic review would involve searching and analyzing literature to explore methods of integrating digital education into Chinese traditional art education. Results. This study sheds light on the current approaches to integrating digital education methods in Chinese traditional art education while also offering insights into future trends and directions in this field. Based on Google Scholar search results using the keywords "digital education" and "traditional arts education" resulted in 19,800 publications. Multiple indexes were used leaving 13,600 publications. After filtering the types of literature into articles and review articles, 65 publications remained. Additionally, we removed duplicates, poorly indexed documents, and documents inconsistent with digital arts education research, reducing the number of publications to 10. Each bibliography entry includes author, institution, abstract, Google Scholar category, research topic, year of publication, publications (volumes), and references. In conclusion this study highlights the need for ongoing research and adaptation to effectively navigate the complexities of integrating digital education into traditional Chinese arts education while preserving its rich cultural heritage for future generations.

Interactional space for agency: Discussing photography with preschoolers

According to the latest research in both arts education and childhood studies, young children's agency is relational, entangled and negotiated. However, in early childhood visual arts education, modernist practices emphasising the independent and self-expressive child–agent are still recognisable. In this article, early childhood artistic activities are seen as a shared venue for interaction, social exchange and joint meaning-making, thereby providing a specific forum for displaying agency. Informed by conversation analysis, we explore discussions between 14 preschoolers and a researcher on contemporary art and children's self-authored photographs in a workshop in an early childhood education and care centre. By examining our discussions as turn-by-turn procedures, we identify children's displays of agency. The findings illustrate children's agency as a multifaceted and complex interactional phenomenon based on verbal and non-verbal communication and demonstrating both imaginative, progressively oriented talk and modes of resistance. While a shared playful stance appeared as a suitable means to approach art/creative photographs, it simultaneously became an essential interactional resource for inviting and promoting children's agency. Collaborative play with photographs provided an interactional space in which the fixed child/children–adult binary could be questioned and different types of agency were available for both children and the adult.

A critique of the ecological art research in China

Ecological art represents a novel artistic genre that melds the realms of creative expression with environmental conservation, reflecting the contemporary art world’s focus and allure towards the natural environment. Nowadays, scholarly inquiry into ecological art within China is predominantly categorized into four domains: educational practices in ecological art, aesthetics in ecological art, the innovation and utilization of ecological art forms, and interdisciplinary studies within ecological art. Within these areas, research in ecological art education accentuates the pedagogical approaches to artistic innovation and education.

An Early Childhood Educator’s Learning Story in the Time of COVID

While it began with a variety of narrative representations of writing personal experiences, since Ellis (2004; Bochner & Ellis, 2016), evocative, performative, and creative nonfiction forms of storying have coalesced to form contemporary autoethnography. For over a decade, Canadian arts education researchers have blazed trails to employ those forms of autoethnography as “learning stories” (Carr, 2001; Carr & Lee, 2012) to study teaching and learning practices in a variety of school and community educational contexts. Learning stories enable educators to reveal teaching and learning experiences that cannot be represented by, or communicated through, other research forms. The present inquiry, which begins with the story of an early childhood educator, is rooted in the fusion of evocative autoethnography and learning stories with arts-based research, particularly a/r/tography.

Key themes in art education research: A bibliometric review

La investigación en educación artística es un campo especializado situado en la intersección entre las cuestiones en torno a las artes visuales y las cuestiones educativas, lo que a su vez constituye un espacio heterogéneo que debe ser abordado por el mundo académico. Por este motivo, el presente trabajo realiza un análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica internacional sobre “Educación artística” en la base de datos Web Of Science Core Collection (WOS) entre los años 1900-2024. Se aplican técnicas bibliométricas para determinar la producción global y las dimensiones a lo largo de las cuales se distribuyen los términos y la estructura conceptual del campo de investigación. En cuanto a los resultados, el análisis de la estructura conceptual de la educación artística define dos áreas; la primera se refiere a los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje, y la segunda a los procesos terapéuticos, de intervención social y comunitaria. Esta investigación nos lleva a concluir que, globalmente, la Educación Artística se ha consolidado como una comunidad de investigación bien definida, con temas y líneas de investigación compartidas.

Uncovering Emerging Trends in Technology and Art Education: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis

The rapid advancements in technology have opened up new doors for both teachers and students to explore, learn, and create in innovative ways. However, this progress has also brought forth new challenges and complexities that demand a deeper understanding of the use of technology in art education. In this context, bibliometric analysis has emerged as a potent tool to examine emerging trends in the intersection of technology and art education. Employing the PRISMA approach (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) and utilizing relevant Scopus databases with standardized procedures that ensure comprehensiveness and replicability, this bibliometric study identified 29 articles. The number of published articles in 2022, at 12, exceeded that of 2021, with only 6. Furthermore, the study highlighted the top 10 countries conducting research in technology and art education, with China having 17 studies, followed by the United States with 3 and Australia with 2. The top three keywords in current research trends are Education Computing, with 9 publications, E-learning, with 8, and Virtual Reality, with 7. Other keywords that relate to technology and art education are also pertinent to the research. These findings suggest that there is a growing interest in utilizing innovative research techniques to examine the intersection of technology and art education. As emerging technologies broaden the horizons of art-making and learning, they offer new avenues for creativity and innovation, but they also demand careful consideration of their potential benefits and risks. Educators and researchers will need to work in tandem to design effective strategies for integrating these technologies in ways that encourage creativity, learning, and social justice.

Moving From Me to We: Highlighting Collaborative Research in Art Education

Moving From Me to We: Highlighting Collaborative Research in Art Education

Data Visualization in Art Education Research and Practice

Data Visualization in Art Education Research and Practice

인공지능 미술교육 도래에 따른 아동의 미술창작 인식에 대한 질적 탐구

This study started from the problem that art education should be changed in a world where artificial in-telligence creates art. This study is a qualitative study that explored children's perceptions of art creation. To this end, it examined the changes in artistic creation through A.I. and children's experiences of artistic creation from a socio-cultural perspective. Although the educational application of A.I. has been actively studied recently, it found that learners' voices have not been explored. This paper aims to contribute to the next generation art education research by providing an understanding of children's perceptions of art creation from the perspective of children who have not utilized artificial intelligence. To gain a deeper un-derstanding of children's perceptions of artistic creation, this paper conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 elementary school children and categorized and contextualized them into what children think, what children experience, and what children want. Children's art creation is a practical act of voluntary will to imagine, think, and solve, and is influenced by socio-cultural interactions. The results of the study can be utilized as a basis for educational research and understanding children for today's learners heading to-wards future education.

Generic or subject-specific? A survey comparing Dutch secondary school visual art teachers’ early-career experiences to teacher experiences in non-arts subjects

ABSTRACT This study compared visual art teachers’ experiences of generic early-career professional identity dilemmas with experiences of dilemmas arising from subject-specific concerns. In turn, their experience of generic dilemmas was compared with experiences of non-arts teachers, as found in literature. Results show, on average, art teachers experienced considerably more dilemmas than non-arts teachers. No conclusive evidence was found for more frequent, or stronger experience of arts-specific dilemmas. Our data does, however, concur with descriptions of art teacher identity dilemmas found in qualitative arts education research, suggesting that some generic early-career dilemmas may become conflated with subject-specific concerns. For example, art teachers may focus more on students expressing their emotions than other teachers. In uncovering how these teachers might use subject-specific framing when interpreting generic dilemmas, this research invites teacher educators to consider how the subject one teaches may have deeper, and more complex connections to early-career dilemma experiences than previously recognised.

Innovative Application of Digital Audiovisual Language Based on Natural Language Processing Technology in Graffiti Art Education

Abstract In this paper, natural language processing technology is used to establish coupled Hidden Markov Models for speech formalization and features of the two channels. The adaptive weight selection method is used to recognize speech under different signal-to-noise ratios in the recognition stage. The audio-visual recognition system is applied to actual graffiti art education research, and the feasibility and development direction of audio-visual graffiti in the classroom are studied through questionnaires. It can be found that most teachers and students believe that the concept of audiovisual graffiti painting is helpful or more helpful in the cultivation and development of students’ subconscious mind. Most teachers and students believed audiovisual doodling was beneficial or advantageous for developing students’ subconscious. In the acceptance test and learning effect analysis of the audiovisual graffiti course, the mean values of the four dimensions of perceived usefulness (41.87), perceived ease of use (18.11), willingness to use (31.45), and perceived experience of the process (28.31) are basically around the maximum value, which indicates that the audiovisual technology is well accepted and that the mean value of the experimental group’s performance score (83.68) is significantly higher than that of the control group. Control group. The audiovisual course has been found to enable learners to concentrate on the learning situation faster and master the teaching essential contents more thoroughly.

Book Review: Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape

Canadian arts educators recognize the dominance of American texts and curriculum standards in both teacher education programs and in public classroom settings. In Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape, the late Bernard W. Andrews (1950-2023) showcases curriculum ideas that consider the uniqueness of the Canadian experience in arts education and arts-based research. This and the subsequent volume are an important contribution to arts education research and curricula, in Canada and around the world.

초등 실과교육의 연구 동향 분석

This study identifies trends in practical education research and outlines directions for research development by analyzing papers published in academic journals affiliated with academic societies related to practical education. The study analyzed 1,349 papers, comprising 674 papers from the Journal of Korean Practical Arts Education and 675 papers from the Journal of Korean Practical Arts Education Research, published between 2007 and 2022. Papers were analyzed based on frequency and percentage, using a framework that considered publication year, research field, research area, research method, main statistical method, comparison across variables according to research field, research subject, researchers, and language.
 The study found that the number of research papers published in the academic journals “The Korean Association of Practical Arts Education” and “The Society of Korean Practical Arts Education Research” from 2006 to 2022 exhibited almost identical trends. Regarding the year, publications peaked in 2008 and then exhibited a downward trend from 2011 onward. In the field of practical education research, home science emerged as the largest area of focus, while textbooks and educational materials were most popular across most research fields. In terms of the research method, most papers employed survey research, primarily utilizing the questionnaire method. Quantitative studies primarily employed the t-test. Concerning the variables related to the research field, when compared to research areas, the field of textbooks and educational materials had the highest number of papers across almost all fields. Similarly, when comparing research methods, the majority of papers used research methods involving literature research and questionnaires. Regarding major statistical methods, the t-test was the most frequently used statistical method in all research fields. In addition, the majority of papers related to practical education were aimed at elementary school students, and nearly half of the studies were conducted as independent research by the research team. The predominant language used in most papers was Korean.
 Therefore, the development of domestic practical education research requires a discernible need for heightened interest and academic engagement, efforts on academic aspects of practical education, promotion of research on educational facilities and philosophical and ideological aspects, utilization of diverse research methods and analysis techniques, and collaborative research undertakings in producing papers and writing in foreign languages.

Teacher's Views of Art Education in Primary Schools in Scotland

AbstractThe majority of art education research in the United Kingdom originates from England; however, the devolved nations each have responsibility for education resulting in four different curricula working concurrently across Great Britain. It can be argued that in comparison to England, art and design education research in Scotland is an under‐researched area though one that is increasingly garnering interest. This paper contributes to the field by presenting and discussing some of the findings from a survey of teachers focused on art and design education in Scottish primary schools in 2022. A total of 110 teachers participated and the survey examined the value of the subject, the current delivery in schools, the future of the subject and support for teachers. A wealth of data were gathered so this paper focuses particularly on the value of the subject among staff, confidence levels regarding delivery and the role of training and professional learning. The paper concludes that while the value of the subject among staff is strong, confidence levels with regard to teaching the subject are not. Staff felt that training had left them unprepared to teach the subject, and there was limited awareness of professional learning opportunities in their geographical area.

Study And Appreciation Of Claude Monet’s Artistic Creation And Life Experience

Claude Monet an outstanding Impressionist painter in the 19th century, is one of the founders of Impressionist painting, known as the "father of Impressionism". His representative works include Impression of Sunrise, Cathedral of Rouen, Haystack, and Water Lily. Many artists and scholars in the study of Monet's works, summed up the artist Monet can be famous for the reason: thanks to his unique insight and innovation in painting creation. Every seemingly insignificant change over time will eventually add up and change things qualitatively. This paper makes a correlation analysis between Monet's painting style and his life experience to explore the influence of the painter's life experience on the painting methods adopted at that time, to study and appreciate his representative works which have achieved periodic success. When people not only stop to appreciate the color surface of the work, but also understand the story behind the creation of art, this will more vividly and truly restore the character image of a writer, and further explore the connotation, historical status, and influence on the development history of painting. At the same time, it is beneficial to broaden the richness of the history of art painting and is also of great benefit to the field of art education and academic research.

Considering the arts in school assessment in the United States: An investigation of engagement and hope

Arts education advocacy in the United States often relies on arts education research for its arguments, yet significant policy changes supporting arts education are inconsistent from state to state. This article highlights the investigation of a US Gallup Student Poll on South Carolina arts-rich schools. More specifically, the study focuses on how states determine a school’s effectiveness and can be held accountable for the ideals of a whole-child education instead of using the narrow lens of test scores. The authors delve into two poll categories that had significance for these schools. Engagement and hope stood out as convincing measures for the arts. The data presented in this article provide a persuasive argument for how the arts can account for school effectiveness. Although the project is closely related to schools in the United States, it is presumed that results from this study are relevant for colleagues in other countries as well, where similar accountability measures prevail.

Co-creating digital art with generative AI in K-9 education: Socio-material insights

The rise of image-generating artificial intelligence (AI) tools has triggered changes in digital art and graphic design, provoking debates in the creative industry. However, scant research exists about children’s and youths’ insights into and encounters with generative AI. Building on sociocultural and new materialist perspectives, this exploratory study proposed to address this gap by exploring middle schoolers’ (N = 10) creative interaction with generative AI, particularly with text-to-image generative models. Qualitative content analyses of emerging learning activities evidenced how generative AI-formed relations were externalized through novel digital artefacts and collaborative discussions. Ideas evolved through peer collaboration organized around creative making with AI. Teachers facilitated relations between people and technology using dialogic teaching, providing room for unpredictability and critical reflection on the impacts of generative AI, especially authorship and copyright. The study concludes with a discussion of the potential uses of generative AI in future art education research and practice.

문화예술교육에서 무용교육 동향연구

문화예술교육에서 무용교육 동향연구

A Journal as Multi-Level Plaza for Research in Arts Education. Expanding Communal and Personal Experiences

A Journal as Multi-Level Plaza for Research in Arts Education. Expanding Communal and Personal Experiences

Global Citizenship Education – and Its Relation to ’Research in Cultural, Aesthetic, and Arts Education’

Global Citizenship Education – and Its Relation to ’Research in Cultural, Aesthetic, and Arts Education’