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Papers by Maureen Ryan
The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, 2008
Unteaching Art: The Student as Subject/Designer/Fabricator…Artist By unlearning artistic clich... more Unteaching Art: The Student as Subject/Designer/Fabricator…Artist
By unlearning artistic clichés and references, this hands-on, multimedia, interactive session considers not so much ‘how to teach art’ or ‘how to teach the art process’ but ‘how the art process teaches us’.
From presentation and paper at Kassel, Germany ( Aug 2007) in conjunction with Documenta 12 and Common Ground Publishing – article with this title is soon to be online in the Arts Journal
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 1999
Abstract This paper reports on a study that has mapped the stories of a group of women teacher ed... more Abstract This paper reports on a study that has mapped the stories of a group of women teacher educators. While the focus is on the period of change during the last 10 years from primarily teachers' colleges to university‐based teacher education, the broader context of ...
Case studies are presented of the induction and professional development of five young teachers, ... more Case studies are presented of the induction and professional development of five young teachers, specifically focusing on the impact of structural and policy changes (external workplace environment) on the ideas of young teachers in schools (internal workplace environment). The case studies investigate issues of continuity and change in teachers' ideas about teaching. Subjects are graduates of the Diploma of Teaching (Primary) at Footscray Institute of Technology (now the Victoria University of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia. The main orientation of the teachers' earliest comments is towards their work with children and their preparation of those children for their lives ahead. Consequently, references are made to providing opportunities for children to develop employment and living skills and to have successful experiences which will enhance their self-esteem. Later, it seems that the values held most strongly by the teachers have persisted in their work in the classroom and are also applied to other parts of their teaching role including administration, organizational, and policy development duties. (Contains 16 references.) (JDD)
When it is understood that personal, familial, social, cultural and organisational stories are te... more When it is understood that personal, familial, social, cultural and organisational stories are temporal arrangements of the way things are and that these taken for granted stories can be re-scripted, there is the potential for change and transformation in personal lives, classroom situations and social and organisational settings.
Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, 2016
Young peoples' worlds are valid and authentic spheres of knowing that communicate a range of issu... more Young peoples' worlds are valid and authentic spheres of knowing that communicate a range of issues. Through little aesthetics the artistic work in this project engages with what Hickey-Moody (2014) terms 'little publics spheres' (p. 117). Artistic expression is one way for adults to engage with children's little public spheres. Situated within the larger field of public pedagogy little publics acknowledge the civic, social, economic, political worlds of young people. Through artistic representations , we position little publics as a way to foster intercultural understanding and expression of self. The international collaboration between Gallery Sunshine Everywhere and Eritrean Australian Humanitarian Aid draws on the relational worlds of children through art. Drawings from two schools in Kassala, East Sudan were given to students at Flemington Primary School, Melbourne, who wrote evocative stories in response to the drawings. These little public expressions invite adult worlds into the intellectual presence of young people's perceptions and relocate the roles of learner and teacher within and beyond structures of formal schooling. The concept of little publics validates children as important producers of culture, knowledge and learning contexts.
The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, 2008
Unteaching Art: The Student as Subject/Designer/Fabricator…Artist By unlearning artistic clich... more Unteaching Art: The Student as Subject/Designer/Fabricator…Artist
By unlearning artistic clichés and references, this hands-on, multimedia, interactive session considers not so much ‘how to teach art’ or ‘how to teach the art process’ but ‘how the art process teaches us’.
From presentation and paper at Kassel, Germany ( Aug 2007) in conjunction with Documenta 12 and Common Ground Publishing – article with this title is soon to be online in the Arts Journal
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 1999
Abstract This paper reports on a study that has mapped the stories of a group of women teacher ed... more Abstract This paper reports on a study that has mapped the stories of a group of women teacher educators. While the focus is on the period of change during the last 10 years from primarily teachers' colleges to university‐based teacher education, the broader context of ...
Case studies are presented of the induction and professional development of five young teachers, ... more Case studies are presented of the induction and professional development of five young teachers, specifically focusing on the impact of structural and policy changes (external workplace environment) on the ideas of young teachers in schools (internal workplace environment). The case studies investigate issues of continuity and change in teachers' ideas about teaching. Subjects are graduates of the Diploma of Teaching (Primary) at Footscray Institute of Technology (now the Victoria University of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia. The main orientation of the teachers' earliest comments is towards their work with children and their preparation of those children for their lives ahead. Consequently, references are made to providing opportunities for children to develop employment and living skills and to have successful experiences which will enhance their self-esteem. Later, it seems that the values held most strongly by the teachers have persisted in their work in the classroom and are also applied to other parts of their teaching role including administration, organizational, and policy development duties. (Contains 16 references.) (JDD)
When it is understood that personal, familial, social, cultural and organisational stories are te... more When it is understood that personal, familial, social, cultural and organisational stories are temporal arrangements of the way things are and that these taken for granted stories can be re-scripted, there is the potential for change and transformation in personal lives, classroom situations and social and organisational settings.
Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts, 2016
Young peoples' worlds are valid and authentic spheres of knowing that communicate a range of issu... more Young peoples' worlds are valid and authentic spheres of knowing that communicate a range of issues. Through little aesthetics the artistic work in this project engages with what Hickey-Moody (2014) terms 'little publics spheres' (p. 117). Artistic expression is one way for adults to engage with children's little public spheres. Situated within the larger field of public pedagogy little publics acknowledge the civic, social, economic, political worlds of young people. Through artistic representations , we position little publics as a way to foster intercultural understanding and expression of self. The international collaboration between Gallery Sunshine Everywhere and Eritrean Australian Humanitarian Aid draws on the relational worlds of children through art. Drawings from two schools in Kassala, East Sudan were given to students at Flemington Primary School, Melbourne, who wrote evocative stories in response to the drawings. These little public expressions invite adult worlds into the intellectual presence of young people's perceptions and relocate the roles of learner and teacher within and beyond structures of formal schooling. The concept of little publics validates children as important producers of culture, knowledge and learning contexts.