Experimenting FADS: Finnish Art-Education Doctoral Studies, an innovative network for PhDs (original) (raw)

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