Elsbeth Veldpape

Creative Curiosity. Training Teachers for Artistic Research

Elsbeth Veldpape – ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands

Abstract:

Students in the Dutch Bachelor of Fine Art and Design Teacher Training programme learn to do artistic research, but not to guide others in doing artistic research. The programme trains first-degree qualified art teachers who teach their own art discipline and the interdisciplinary school subject Cultural Arts Education (In Dutch: CKV) in secondary education. One of the aims of the school subject CKV is to help students develop an inquisitive attitude through artistic-creative processes. But students at teacher training colleges are currently insufficiently trained to supervise these developmental processes. The proposed innovation project aims to bring about adjustments in these courses to solve this guidance problem. In the Netherlands, little knowledge is available on supervising inquiry-based learning and artistic research in secondary schools. This research project aims to increase knowledge about this and to develop design principles and curriculum materials for art teachers in training, in order to better equip them in this area. The aim is that after their course, students of the teacher training programme will be able to effectively initiate and supervise inquiry-based learning and artistic research within CKV lessons or other artistic-educational contexts. This innovation project will take place at ArtEZ University of the Arts at two locations: Arnhem and Zwolle. Through educational design research, we aim to develop, test and evaluate design principles, educational curriculum materials (ECMs) within the programmes. The results will lead to improvement and renewal of art curricula on two levels: for students on the teacher training programmes at ArtEZ and for secondary school pupils. The research started in late 2024 and the aim of the poster presentation is to collect feedback on the method.