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Research in Arts and Education, Dec 18, 2023

This visual essay illustrates the context of art education practice and its contemporary art dime... more This visual essay illustrates the context of art education practice and its contemporary art dimensions developed within the Art Education programme at the University of Lapland. The connections between interdisciplinary field of art education, research and artistic activism is a dynamic new opening with educational potential. I will examine performativity and place specific art and their potential in community-based art education in the context of art teacher training.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism, 2019

Intellect Books, Sep 1, 2008

Lapland University Press eBooks, 2018

Siirtyminen oppilaan ja ympäröivän maailman väliseen suhteeseen. Kuvio: Mirja Hiltunen. GRANÖ, HI... more Siirtyminen oppilaan ja ympäröivän maailman väliseen suhteeseen. Kuvio: Mirja Hiltunen. GRANÖ, HILTUNEN JA JOKELA LÄHTEET BOLT, B. (2013). Towards a new materialism through the arts. Teoksessa E. Barett & B. Bolt (toim.), Carnal knowledge: Towards a new materialism through the arts (s. 1-14). London: IB, Tauris.

SECTION 1 approaches, or clarifying how concepts and theories are used. All students were expecte... more SECTION 1 approaches, or clarifying how concepts and theories are used. All students were expected to respond to each posting. The second task, researching research, was to widen the scope of investigation and help students find examples of other research that supported or enhanced their dissertation, in ways that go beyond a direct or limited relationship to the field of study, content area, or population. Each student was asked to seek out as many possible dissertations, theses, research reports, etc., that relate to a concept, approach, structure, theory, or subject in their dissertation. The research they found, however, must have been produced in, or focused on, an area outside of Finland, and be situated in a different field of study rather than art education. The students then wrote a summary and shared it on line. The last task, role-playing and swapping research, actually began at the end of the second symposium, when students chose a name of a peer out of a bowl. They had to send an abstract of their research to their partner that included the general approach or approaches to the subject of their dissertation. This approach could be based on theory, concepts, methods, or methodology. The next step included students doing some introductory research and reading on their partner's approach. The student then reformulated their research abstract using their partners approach. The coordinators supported student's being playful, experimental, and daring. The main point was to help students see through their partner's perspective, and try to rethink their work through a different approach, and then post a revised abstract. The third symposium was held at Aalto ARTS, from October 19-21, 2016. The main purpose of this symposium was to review the on-line tasks from the previous year, discuss updates, changes, and challenges with student research, and determine roles and responsibilities for writing and publishing about FADS. The keynote speaker was Marc Fritzsche, from the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany. Marc delivered his talk about interfaces, media theory, and art education on the second day of the symposium, in-between group work by the students. Most of the time, however, was spent on creating groups and preparing outlines, and beginning the process of writing about FADS. This book is the final culmination of that work. tiMo JoKelA, MirA KAllio-tAvin & MirJA hiltUnen chApter 2 by

Research in Arts and Education, Dec 18, 2023

This visual essay illustrates the context of art education practice and its contemporary art dime... more This visual essay illustrates the context of art education practice and its contemporary art dimensions developed within the Art Education programme at the University of Lapland. The connections between interdisciplinary field of art education, research and artistic activism is a dynamic new opening with educational potential. I will examine performativity and place specific art and their potential in community-based art education in the context of art teacher training.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism, 2019

Intellect Books, Sep 1, 2008

Lapland University Press eBooks, 2018

Siirtyminen oppilaan ja ympäröivän maailman väliseen suhteeseen. Kuvio: Mirja Hiltunen. GRANÖ, HI... more Siirtyminen oppilaan ja ympäröivän maailman väliseen suhteeseen. Kuvio: Mirja Hiltunen. GRANÖ, HILTUNEN JA JOKELA LÄHTEET BOLT, B. (2013). Towards a new materialism through the arts. Teoksessa E. Barett & B. Bolt (toim.), Carnal knowledge: Towards a new materialism through the arts (s. 1-14). London: IB, Tauris.

SECTION 1 approaches, or clarifying how concepts and theories are used. All students were expecte... more SECTION 1 approaches, or clarifying how concepts and theories are used. All students were expected to respond to each posting. The second task, researching research, was to widen the scope of investigation and help students find examples of other research that supported or enhanced their dissertation, in ways that go beyond a direct or limited relationship to the field of study, content area, or population. Each student was asked to seek out as many possible dissertations, theses, research reports, etc., that relate to a concept, approach, structure, theory, or subject in their dissertation. The research they found, however, must have been produced in, or focused on, an area outside of Finland, and be situated in a different field of study rather than art education. The students then wrote a summary and shared it on line. The last task, role-playing and swapping research, actually began at the end of the second symposium, when students chose a name of a peer out of a bowl. They had to send an abstract of their research to their partner that included the general approach or approaches to the subject of their dissertation. This approach could be based on theory, concepts, methods, or methodology. The next step included students doing some introductory research and reading on their partner's approach. The student then reformulated their research abstract using their partners approach. The coordinators supported student's being playful, experimental, and daring. The main point was to help students see through their partner's perspective, and try to rethink their work through a different approach, and then post a revised abstract. The third symposium was held at Aalto ARTS, from October 19-21, 2016. The main purpose of this symposium was to review the on-line tasks from the previous year, discuss updates, changes, and challenges with student research, and determine roles and responsibilities for writing and publishing about FADS. The keynote speaker was Marc Fritzsche, from the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany. Marc delivered his talk about interfaces, media theory, and art education on the second day of the symposium, in-between group work by the students. Most of the time, however, was spent on creating groups and preparing outlines, and beginning the process of writing about FADS. This book is the final culmination of that work. tiMo JoKelA, MirA KAllio-tAvin & MirJA hiltUnen chApter 2 by

[Article is published in IJETA - International Journal of Education through Art, vol 11, no 2, 20... more [Article is published in IJETA - International Journal of Education through Art, vol 11, no 2, 2015]
The aim of this article is to analyse and identify the structure of activities occurring during a series of art workshops conducted in one particular work-based community, with a view to exploring links between modern working life and the fields of art and art education. The researchers took part in the workshops as participant observers. The research showed that art-oriented activities can make different organizational cultures more visible and open to further development. Participants can apply the experience gained in art workshops to their own work practice, using it to strengthen group coherence, to express ideas better and to become more emotionally engaged in their jobs. It can foster mental strength and faith in a personal way of working, and encourage people to try things that they have not tried before.

Relate North 2014: Engagement, Art and Representation Edited by Timo Jokela and Glen Coutts, Uni... more Relate North 2014: Engagement, Art and Representation

Edited by Timo Jokela and Glen Coutts, University of Lapland, Finland

Drawing on studies from Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Scotland Relate North 2014 explores contemporary practices in arts based research and knowledge exchange in the fields of arts and design. The essays and reports in this volume interpret the terms ‘arts’ and ‘design’ broadly to include, for example, crafts, indigenous making, media and product or service design. By directing attention to Northern and Arctic perspectives on contemporary arts and design, often linking those to issues of sustainability and context sensitive research, the authors provide thought-provoking accounts of current practice in these regions.

Relate North 2014 brings together the work of leading scholars to explore issues in the field of contemporary arts, design and visual culture. Their writing helps advance our understanding of arts, design and visual culture education particularly among people living in Northern and Arctic areas. Relate North 2014 engages with the wider theoretical debates and will be of interest to a wide audience including, for example, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, artists, designers and art educators, practice-based researchers and those with a general interest in Northern and Arctic issues.