Teaching and Learning the Arts in Higher Education with Technology: Vignettes from Practice

Teaching and Learning the Arts in Higher Education with Technology

Vignettes from Practice

Teaching and Learning the Arts in Higher Education with Technology was released by Springer Singapore in 2021.

This book is an inquiry about the possibilities of using technology to support the education of artists within higher education contexts. Even though technology-enhanced learning and teaching may seem incongruent with the long-established studio-based cultures of making and performing, it is increasingly becoming a pivotal point to connect artistes to potential audience and markets. It draws upon the experiences of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), a pioneering arts institution in Singapore with over 80 years of institutional history.

Through 9 vignettes in the performing and visual arts, this book illustrates technology-enhanced pedagogical practices that have been implemented in different artistic learning spaces including classroom, studio, and stage as well as institutional support strategies.

There are four parts in this book, covering a range of perspectives through practice, theory, design products and institutional contexts. Topics include video-based peer critique in theatre practice, mental practice in gamelan performance, metacognitive awareness among students in fashion studies, an online package for dance production, artistic self-awareness through an OPINE thinking processes, Studio Habits of the Mind in an integrated arts curriculum module, supportive structures for design rationalisation, feedback and improvement in ePortfolios, and the importance of NAFA’s EdTech Unit as an institutional gatekeeper for technology-enhanced pedagogical practices. With a naturalistic stance, these chapters seek to illuminate realistic pictures of teaching and learning that are being uncovered by artist educators as they sought to integrate technology within teaching practices using available technologies and within the classes that they are teaching.

Contributors to the book publication: Grace Leong, Gillian Tan, Alicia de Silva, Jacinta Freeman, Winson Ho, Jerry Soo, Tan Choong Kheng, Tay Pei Chin, Sumaiya Binte Mohamad Ali and Georgette Yu. The book is co-edited by Associate Professor Joyce Koh Hwee Ling (Otago University, Higher Education Development Centre), and Dr Rebecca Kan (Pedagogy and Research Unit).

• Profiles technology-enhanced pedagogies and implementation outcomes in different contexts in higher arts education

• Written by artist educators for artist educators

• Discusses institutional support strategies for technology-enhanced pedagogies

Contents Part I Arts in Practice

Foreword Jerry T. K. Soo

1 Educating the Artist with Technology? Joyce Hwee Ling Koh

2 Articulating Theatre Students’ Conceptions of Movement in Body- Time- Space Through Video-Based Peer Critique Grace Yit Ming Leong

3 Supporting Mental Practice with Digital Resources in Gamelan Performance A—Personal Narrative Alicia de Silva

Part I Arts in Practice

4 Supporting Fashion Design Students’ Metacognition During Patternmaking with Canvas Tools Georgette Sy Yu

Part III Products in Design

7 Developing Design and Media Students’ Capacity for Design Rationalisation with Electronic Portfolios Winson Khoon Sung Ho

8 Creative Inquiry in Graphic Design: Studio Habits in an Integrated Arts Project Tan Choong Kheng and Rebecca Kan

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Part II Conceptual Understanding

5 Understanding Dance Production: Blending Learning from Online to Classroom to the Stage Gillian Ai Gek Tan

6 Culture, Media, and Self-identity – Supporting Students’ Expression of Thinking with the OPINE Framework Jacinta Freeman

Part IV Institutional Contexts

9 A Professional Development Workshop for Supporting Artist Educators’ Creation of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Joyce Hwee Ling Koh

10 Creating Institutional Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge — Case Study through the Eyes of an Educational Technology Support Unit

Joyce Hwee Ling Koh, Pei Chin Tay, and Sumaiya Binte Mohamad Ali

11 Educating the Artist with Technology: COVID-19 and Beyond Joyce Hwee Ling Koh and Rebecca Kan