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ERIC Number: EJ1104579
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1476-8062
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Reconstructing Imagined Finnishness: The Case of Art Education through the Concept of Place
Paatela-Nieminen, Martina; Itkonen, Tuija; Talib, Mirja-Tytti
International Journal of Art & Design Education, v35 n2 p229-242 Jun 2016
This multidisciplinary article presents a methodology, a research project and selected outcomes from an environmental art education course for teacher students. The course is part of an art education minor at the University of Helsinki, Department of Teacher Education. The students were asked to construct their place through an intertextual art method that provided them the means to study their place open-endedly as a space of plural cultural meanings. Applying the results from their intertextual process, they reconstructed their place artistically. The end product was a personal work of art that included traces of their chosen places, and created a new meaning for it. The outcome is a visual space of compacted meanings from different places. Places contain history and memories important to identity construction. The results show that the intertextual reading extends the students' concept of place as a space for relational and plural cultural meanings. Foucault's concept of heterotopia, as it applies to otherness of places and spaces, was used alongside the intertextual art method.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland (Helsinki)
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