Kemal Ahson

1.2 Measuring What Matters (Paper)

Kemal Ahson – University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Finland

Abstract:

What matters in arts-based education? In this presentation, I will reflect on this question in terms of how and who defines what matters in arts-based education, and the possible risks of these definitions supporting a ‘social imaginary’. In particular, I will consider some of the institutional processes involved in determining what we value in arts-based education and the ‘epistemic infrastructure’ that underpins them. I will also touch on claims to the legitimacy of truth in arts-based education and how these claims are embedded within the social and cultural environments that produce them.