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Publication Date: 2017-May-15
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Being with and Being There: Our Enactment of Wide-Awakeness
Williams, Rebecca
International Journal of Education & the Arts, v18 n21 May 2017
Maxine Greene championed that teachers and students can discover openings providing space for the development of wide-awakeness through art and aesthetic education. Wide-awakeness is a heightened sense of consciousness encouraging critical awareness and deep engagement with one's world. As individuals come alive in this way, their open-minded exploration is fueled by their development of personal agency and self-worth through their pursuit of presentness and possibility. Through a case study of the college art education course, Pedagogy as Art Practice, I sought to gain a better understanding of what ways the teacher and students' engendered wide-awakeness, how the structure of the course supported this development, and how this impacted the participants. With this paper I narrate the story of how the participants' "being with" and "being there," or their relational and intellectual engagement, facilitated their enactment of wide-awakeness.
Descriptors: Art Education, Aesthetic Education, Consciousness Raising, Metacognition, Case Studies, College Students, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Teacher Behavior, Student Behavior, Participant Observation, Documentation, Content Analysis, Video Technology, Semi Structured Interviews
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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