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The thesis explores the relationships between knowledge and knowing in contemporary 21st century information society, using the foundation of the Faculty of Media Design & New Media Art at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano as a research apparatus. This Faculty was established between 2003 and 2012, in Milano, Italy. The starting point of the research was established in the hypothesis that technics have tertiarised memory (Stiegler B., 1994), that knowledge is always founded on an ontological pessimism (Queneau R., 1933, Lyotard F., 1979) and on a perpetual process of the generation of meaning (Gadda C., 1923-29, Foucault M., 1966). Knowledge is always and inevitably linked to the technics with which it is passed on. Pedagogy becomes a questioning of the object of knowledge, which transmutes into a definition of the ways it can be visualised. This research then, setting out from a pessimistic position in relation to knowledge and truth, amplifies them to infinite possible forms and therefore causes a dual shift of philosophy towards art and of pedagogy towards hermeneutics. The methodology consisted of a textual and visual description of a territory in a cartography of meaning, seen as the relation between intuition and the way in which practices as knowledges, arts, form remnants.

This project utilized a form of arts based educational research described as analog hypertext to develop interpretative material representing multiple critical, theoretical, and disciplinary perspectives on objects in a university art museum’s object study gallery. Drawing on scholars’ recommendations for postcolonial interpretation of non-Western art, the project created a web of information, which simultaneously revealed and critiqued the underlying ideologies and power structures shaping the museum’s display in an effort to change existing interpretive practice. The project developed five color-coded thematic self-guided tours—art as commodity, spiritual practice, technology and cultural evolutionism, mortuary rituals, and postcolonial perspectives—presented to the public as an interpretive exhibition invited visitors’ contributions. This paper explores how the analog hypertext functions as both a research tool and a content delivery device for the representation of multiple critical perspectives, fostering interdisciplinary perspectives and visitor meaning-making in the process.

Literature in arts education suggests that experiences in the arts support the development of thinking skills such as critical thinking and reasoning (Fiske, 1999; Eisner, 2004; Greene, Kisida, and Bowen, 2014). But do individuals make aesthetic judgments supported by critical thinking and reasoning, or are these judgments based only on subjective preferences or personal taste? The present study examines whether undergraduate college students from an elite private university serving primarily students of high socioeconomic status (SES) and a public university serving primarily low SES students (n=150) invoke criteria when making evaluative judgments across the domains of visual art, music, and a non-aesthetic more general domain. Students were asked to compare two works of art (visual art or music), and to compare two fictional political candidates and to indicate whether one could be judged superior to the other and if so on what basis. Responses reflected levels of epistemological understanding—that is, whether judgments are based primarily on facts (Absolutist level), subjective opinions (Multiplist level), or criteria (Evaluativist level). The majority of participants displayed Multiplist levels in the aesthetic domains. Evaluativist levels were more common in the non-aesthetic domain, although significantly so only in comparison to the music domain among the students from the private elite university. Group comparisons across the two aesthetic domains showed that individuals scored at the Evaluativist level with more frequency in the visual art domain as compared to the music domain. However, this difference was significant only among the participants from the private elite university and not among the participants from the public university. The general educational and social background of the participants (private elite university setting versus public university setting) proved to be the strongest predictor of Evaluativist-level responses. Continued research in epistemological understanding in the aesthetic domain is needed, as development in epistemological thinking may afford insights into the degree to which individuals exercise critical thinking about the arts, and how such thinking can be fostered.

Orientador: Clélia Aparecida Martins / Banca: Alonso Bezerra de Carvalho / Banca: Elve Miguel Cenci / Resumo: A dimensão estética é abordada por alguns filósofos desde a modernidade até o período contemporâneo como o lugar de reconciliação da ruptura entre sujeito e objeto, que reflete-se na dicotomia entre as faculdades: sensibilidade e intelecto; desejo e cognição. Uma terceira faculdade, que comumente não é considerada nessas divisões bipartida do homem, é a do julgamento estético, uma faculdade de ajuizamento da sensificação de idéias morais. Este texto traz algumas considerações sobre o juízo estético, a partir da filosofia de Kant e dos escritos de Schiller. A experiência estética, para Kant, é uma forma de comunicação nas relações intersubjetivas dos homens, assim sendo, deve ter um poder unificador. Para Schiller, ela é o médium pelo qual o ser humano se forma para a verdadeira liberdade política formação que diz respeito ao contexto coletivo, e não unicamente ao indivíduo. Com base nesse aparato teórico, num segundo momento, são elaboradas algumas reflexões sobre a importância da formação estética para os dias atuais. Por meio da arte pode-se desenvolver intelectual e esteticamente os seres humanos, para que eles possam ser seres plenos também em sua dignidade humana. Mas a divisão entre razão/emoção é refletida também na organização do ensino que visa formar seres divididos e fragmentados para um mundo especializado. Ou seja, no processo de formação escolar o desvalor à experiência e juízo estéticos são indubitáveis, devendo, pois, comprometer essa formação, haja vista que uma potencialidade do ser humano fica bloqueada. / Abstract: The aesthetic dimension is boarded for some philosophers since modernity until the period contemporary as the place of reconciliation of the rupture between citizen and object, that is reflected in the dichotomy between the facultieses: sensitivity and intellect; desire and cognition. One third college, that is usually not considered in these divisions bipartite of the man, is of the aesthetic judgment, a college of the filling of a suit of the sensification of moral ideas. This text brings some considerations on the aesthetic judgment, from the philosophy of Kant and of the writings of Schiller. The aesthetic experience, for Kant, is a form of communication in the intersubjecetives relations of the men, thus being, must have an unifying power. For Schiller, it are médium for which the human being if form for the true freedom politics? Formation that says respect to the collective context, and not solely to the individual. With base in this theoretical apparatus, at as a moment, some reflections on the importance of the aesthetic formation for the current days are elaborated. By means of the art intellectual can itself be developed aesthetic and the human beings, so that they also can be full beings in its dignity human being. But the division between reason/emotion is also reflected in the organization of the education that it aims at to form beings divided and fragmented for a specialized world. Or either, in the process of pertaining to school formation the desvalor to the aesthetic experience and judgment is doubtless, having, therefore, to compromise this formation, has seen that a potentiality of the human being is blocked. / Mestre

Hur elever lär och vilka de bästa förutsättningarna för lärande skulle kunna vara är frågor som alltid funnits med i skolans värld. I denna uppsats är begreppet som "lärstilar" centralt, men det betyder inte att begreppet i sig skall uppfattas som helt nytt. Det har bedrivits forskning kring detta ämne i cirka 35 år. Följande studie har behandlat lärstilar i tre olika ämnen så som svenska, matematik och bild. Syftet med studien är att få fördjupad förståelse för hur lärare reflekterar kring inlärningsstilar i relation till undervisning och klassrum och hur deras tillämpningar i några skolämnen ser ut. Studien skildrar betydelsen för elevernas inlärningsstilar i samband med undervisning och klassrumsmiljön. Uppsatsen grundar sig i två metoder, en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ metod där enkät har används för att samla in empirin. Tre intervjuer med lärare i år fyra och fem och enkätundersökning med 42 elever har utgjort underlag för den empiriska datainsamlingen. Resultatet visar att alla tre lärare har grundläggande teorier om hur lärstilar skall användas i relation till undervisning och klassrumsmiljön. Men det skiljer sig dock mellan lärarna i vilken grad dessa syns i deras utsagor. Resultat visar också att "lärstil" som begrepp uppfattas på väsentligt skilda sätt av de olika lärarna. Varken lärare eller elever gjorde någon skillnad på undervisningens planering i de olika ämnena bild, matematik och svenska. / How students learn and what the best conditions for learning could be issues that always existed in the school world. This essay is the concept is that "learning style" headquarters, but that does not mean the concept itself is perceived as completely new. It has conducted research on this topic for about 35 years. The study has dealt with learning styles in three different subjects, such as Swedish, mathematics and image. The purpose of this study is to obtain a deeper understanding of how teachers reflect on learning styles in relation to education and classrooms and how their applications in some school subjects are. The study portrays the importance of students' learning styles in the context of teaching and classroom environment. The essay is based on two methods, a qualitative and a quantitative method of survey has been used to collect empirical. Three interviews with teachers in years four and five and a survey of 42 students have formed the basis for the empirical data collection. The result shows that all three teachers, the basic theories of how learning styles should be used in relation to teaching and classrooms. But it is different, however, between the teachers in the degree to which these can be seen in their statements. Results also show that "learning style" as a concept is perceived in significantly different ways by different teachers. Neither the teacher nor the students made any difference in teaching planning in the different subject’s image, mathematics and swedish.

<p>Hur elever lär och vilka de bästa förutsättningarna för lärande skulle kunna vara är frågor som alltid funnits med i skolans värld. I denna uppsats är begreppet som "lärstilar" centralt, men det betyder inte att begreppet i sig skall uppfattas som helt nytt. Det har bedrivits forskning kring detta ämne i cirka 35 år. Följande studie har behandlat lärstilar i tre olika ämnen så som svenska, matematik och bild. Syftet med studien är att få fördjupad förståelse för hur lärare reflekterar kring inlärningsstilar i relation till undervisning och klassrum och hur deras tillämpningar i några skolämnen ser ut. Studien skildrar betydelsen för elevernas inlärningsstilar i samband med undervisning och klassrumsmiljön. Uppsatsen grundar sig i två metoder, en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ metod där enkät har används för att samla in empirin. Tre intervjuer med lärare i år fyra och fem och enkätundersökning med 42 elever har utgjort underlag för den empiriska datainsamlingen. Resultatet visar att alla tre lärare har grundläggande teorier om hur lärstilar skall användas i relation till undervisning och klassrumsmiljön. Men det skiljer sig dock mellan lärarna i vilken grad dessa syns i deras utsagor. Resultat visar också att "lärstil" som begrepp uppfattas på väsentligt skilda sätt av de olika lärarna. Varken lärare eller elever gjorde någon skillnad på undervisningens planering i de olika ämnena bild, matematik och svenska.</p> / <p>How students learn and what the best conditions for learning could be issues that always existed in the school world. This essay is the concept is that "learning style" headquarters, but that does not mean the concept itself is perceived as completely new. It has conducted research on this topic for about 35 years. The study has dealt with learning styles in three different subjects, such as Swedish, mathematics and image. The purpose of this study is to obtain a deeper understanding of how teachers reflect on learning styles in relation to education and classrooms and how their applications in some school subjects are. The study portrays the importance of students' learning styles in the context of teaching and classroom environment. The essay is based on two methods, a qualitative and a quantitative method of survey has been used to collect empirical. Three interviews with teachers in years four and five and a survey of 42 students have formed the basis for the empirical data collection. The result shows that all three teachers, the basic theories of how learning styles should be used in relation to teaching and classrooms. But it is different, however, between the teachers in the degree to which these can be seen in their statements. Results also show that "learning style" as a concept is perceived in significantly different ways by different teachers. Neither the teacher nor the students made any difference in teaching planning in the different subject’s image, mathematics and swedish.</p>

M. Tech. Drama / This study aims to investigate how the implementation of the Arts and Culture Learning Area adheres to the government policy as contained in the Revised National Curriculum Statement; to establish the challenges militating against the effective delivery of the Arts and Culture Learning Area; to interrogate the implementation process and the opportunities offered by the existing policy; and to establish the extent to which dance, drama and music are utilised as assets in the development of children's cognitive processes.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Newcastle, 2002. / Faculty of Education. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-222). Also available online.

Thesis (M.I.T.)--The Evergreen State College, 2009. / Title from title screen (viewed 7/29/2009). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-114).