TITLE

"The Whole ME presented itself. KABOOM!": Expressive Arts and Critical Reflection

AUTHOR(S)
Gardner, Morgan
PUB. DATE
January 2012
SOURCE
Alberta Journal of Educational Research;Winter2012, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p409
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The importance of critical reflection in higher education highlights the importance of creating rich learning opportunities for students. Expressive arts (e.g., poetry, drama) ignites such opportunity drawing from more than students' logical-cognitive understandings to include students' creative, multi-modal and experiential capacities. This paper provides one university instructor's reflective account of how an expressive arts final assignment (in a non-arts course) invited students to use the languages of the arts to enhance their critical reflection of course learning. Students' expanded agency and complexity of understanding illustrated expressive arts as a valuable facet of academic work.
ACCESSION #
71852185

Tags: CURRICULUM planning;  CURRICULA (Courses of study);  HIGHER education;  COLLEGE teachers;  UNIVERSITIES & colleges;  EDUCATIONAL planning

 

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