Signature Pedagogies in Education and Arts Practice
Since November 2020
not “empty rhetoric” but “prophetic ministry”
“The way we teach will shape how
(Shulman, 2005) NAFA continues to explore innovative pedagogical and assessment practices in the education of arts professionals, combining new and classical ideas in the context teaching and learning the arts in higher education. Since November 2020, a group of colleagues have been gathering monthly to share empirically-led reflective accounts on their teaching and learning, and how we are preparing students for productive careers in the arts.
professionals behave – and in a society so dependent on the quality of its professionals, that is no small matter.” Shulman, 2005
Together with Associate Professor Christopher Khoo (Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) colleagues examine the tensions embedded within the surface, deep, and implicit structures of pedagogies in higher arts education, and possible solutions to address them at the micro- (e.g., classroom or practicum), meso- (e.g.,program), and macro- (e.g., institution) levels.
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