Kit Grauer
University of British Columbia, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty Member
... By focussing on embodied knowledge in education the editor and the have given an important contribution to our understanding shortcomings of the many ... Witches, kings, and the sacrifice of identity; or, the power of parado paradox... more
... By focussing on embodied knowledge in education the editor and the have given an important contribution to our understanding shortcomings of the many ... Witches, kings, and the sacrifice of identity; or, the power of parado paradox of power among the Beng of Ivory Coast. ...
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The late sixties and early seventies were the golden period of art education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. With as many as 17 faculty, ARTE, the acronym used by the department of Art Education for... more
The late sixties and early seventies were the golden period of art education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. With as many as 17 faculty, ARTE, the acronym used by the department of Art Education for over fifty years, was set to cater to the influx of “baby boomers” that flocked to UBC. The studio program in the Fine Arts Department had not yet been established, and for young artists, ARTE was a much sought after program.
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This article biographically describes the identity and artistic development of internationally known artist Gu Xiong. Stories of his life during the Cultural Revolution in China and his immigration experience into Canada are expressed and... more
This article biographically describes the identity and artistic development of internationally known artist Gu Xiong. Stories of his life during the Cultural Revolution in China and his immigration experience into Canada are expressed and documented through his multiple roles in a community-engaged research study that explores issues of migration, identity, place, displacement, community and the changing nature of geography. Gu Xiong’s unique immigration experiences are contextualized within a mutual encounter of co-shaping between his artist-self and immigrant-self experience. As a cultural worker, created metaphors become the markers of his journey. Despite multiple censorship of his contemporary art and research in his birth country, his approach to creative resistance is a radical ethical aesthetic that unfolds with a neo-vitalist political subjectivity. The outcome is an imminent future vision of hope for a complex world that nourishes individual hybrid identities, interconnect...
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In this paper the authors examine a/r/tographical collaboration in a community-engaged research study investigating immigrant understandings of home and place. The study, The City of Richgate, involves a complex collaboration between... more
In this paper the authors examine a/r/tographical collaboration in a community-engaged research study investigating immigrant understandings of home and place. The study, The City of Richgate, involves a complex collaboration between community members, community organizations, educational institutions, and a research team comprising artist-educators. The study crosses border zones of cultural, ethnic, geographic, institutional, public, private, and disciplinary boundaries, reflecting the ever-changing character of postmodern reality. In this paper the authors reflect critically and theoretically on the lived experience of radical relatedness found within the complex collaboration, particularly within the a/r/tographic research team. This offers a qualitative methodology of radical collaboration applicable to many fields of inquiry in the academy, art world, and community.
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Abstract Kathryn Ricketts is a doctoral student donning an oversized overcoat and hat and carrying a suitcase heavy with the weight of borrowed stories she tells through a methodology called a/r/tography. This paper serves as a living... more
Abstract Kathryn Ricketts is a doctoral student donning an oversized overcoat and hat and carrying a suitcase heavy with the weight of borrowed stories she tells through a methodology called a/r/tography. This paper serves as a living document of the years she has spent with the core members of the a/r/tographic team: Rita Irwin, Carl Leggo, Peter Gouzouasis, and Kit Grauer and marks the continued articulating of a practice informed by the key themes of identity and place. Her work is focused on the telling of stories of displacement through dance and how this telling impacts the agency of those who tell and those who listen. This paper is written from the personal perspective of the artist researcher and also from the perspectives of the a/r/tographic team.
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This visual essay focuses on the ways in which a 17-year-old First Nations filmmaker engages with complex issues of identity and belonging through his short film. Through a narrative analysis of the film along with the participant’s... more
This visual essay focuses on the ways in which a 17-year-old First Nations filmmaker engages with complex issues of identity and belonging through his short film. Through a narrative analysis of the film along with the participant’s reflection, we highlight some of the complexities of youth-made media as well as how digital-mediated arts practices can carve out space for youth who feel marginalized in traditional institutional contexts. The educational value of film, as a form of digital media, allows both producers and viewers to engage in dialogue with the perspectives of people from different cultures and social classes.
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Nrltography is a form of practice-based research steeped in the arts and education. Alongside other arts-based, arts-informed and aesthetically defined methodologies, a/rltography is one of many emerging forms of inquiry that refer to the... more
Nrltography is a form of practice-based research steeped in the arts and education. Alongside other arts-based, arts-informed and aesthetically defined methodologies, a/rltography is one of many emerging forms of inquiry that refer to the arts as a way of re-searching the world to enhance understanding. Yet, it goes even further by recognizing the educarive potential of teaching and learning as acts of inquiry. Together, the arts and education complement, resist, and echo one another through rhizomaric relarions of living inquiry. In this article, we demonstrate rhizomatic relations in an ongoing ptoject entitled "The City of Richgate" where meanings are constructed within ongoing a/rltographic inquiries described as collective artistic and educational praxis. Rhizomatic relations do not seek conclusions and therefore, neither will this account. Instead, we explore al rltographical situations as methodological spaces for furthering living inquiry. In doing so, we invite th...
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This chapter presents practical understandings of how media arts education programs in an informal learning setting offer an alternative pedagogical space to engage youth through creative media production opportunities. By sharing our... more
This chapter presents practical understandings of how media arts education programs in an informal learning setting offer an alternative pedagogical space to engage youth through creative media production opportunities. By sharing our research findings from the fieldwork drawn from the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS) on Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada, we identify the qualities and characteristics of media arts practice in the context of informal learning spaces that help foster a relational understanding of youth creative endeavors and digital participation. Rather than examining the specific competencies that participants have achieved at GIFTS’ youth media programs, we highlight the pedagogical moments that have taken place throughout the process of learning and its contexts.
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Curriculum integration often appears complex and when this happens those who are involved with providing professional development or teacher education may be inclined to promote simplistic or solution-oriented approaches to facilitate... more
Curriculum integration often appears complex and when this happens those who are involved with providing professional development or teacher education may be inclined to promote simplistic or solution-oriented approaches to facilitate integration. Many variants of a problem-solution model exist, and programs that encourage teachers to identify a few difficulties and then strategize possible ways to remove those difficulties more than likely minimize the very benefits of an integrative program. In contrast to this, we propose a conceptualization of curriculum integration that is rhizomatic. Supporting and extending the research that integrative arts practices lead to imaginative, flexible, and embodied pedagogical praxis, a rhizomatic integration of the arts values complicated and disruptive possibilities that enliven the imagination toward more socially just ways of living and learning. Integration, when understood as rhizomatic, will enable teachers to better respond to the everyda...
Research Interests: Music Education, Education, Curriculum Design, Critical Pedagogy, Curriculum Studies, and 15 moreArts Education, Collaboration, Pedagogy, Curriculum Theory, Postmodernism, Professional Development, Arts Education and Pedagogy, Arts Integration, Arts Based Research, Curricula, Expeditionary Learning, Counselling, Art Inquiry, Arts Based Educational Research, and Art Teachers
Using the arts as integrative tools for knowledge generation and appraisal is nearly always viewed as standard practice within Canadian elementary schools and preferred practice within Canadian secondary schools. Research into curriculum... more
Using the arts as integrative tools for knowledge generation and appraisal is nearly always viewed as standard practice within Canadian elementary schools and preferred practice within Canadian secondary schools. Research into curriculum integration benefits professional practitioners, policy-makers, teacher educators and researchers interested in strengthening the intellectual vitality of the curriculum and particularly interdisciplinary work within the curriculum (see Irwin & Chalmers, in press). We live in a creative knowledge-based economy in which intellectually rigourous consumers and creators are needed to make strong connections within and across ways of knowing. This economy will dominate our economic system during the twenty-first century. Education is the foundation for ensuring our society can rise to the challenge of creating robust learning communities that can stimulate strong intellectual connections, which in turn can help students make well-informed, critical, and ...
The past four years have seen the growth of a unique curricu-lum innovation in ele-mentary schools in parts of British Co-lumbia. Linking learning in the art and language arts curriculums in the elementary grades has evolved not because... more
The past four years have seen the growth of a unique curricu-lum innovation in ele-mentary schools in parts of British Co-lumbia. Linking learning in the art and language arts curriculums in the elementary grades has evolved not because of provincially mandated change but ...
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Abstract: Gulf Island Film and Television School (GIFTS) is a community-based new media school founded 15 years ago by a group of documentary and commercial filmmakers on the site of a former logging camp on the island of Galiano in... more
Abstract: Gulf Island Film and Television School (GIFTS) is a community-based new media school founded 15 years ago by a group of documentary and commercial filmmakers on the site of a former logging camp on the island of Galiano in British Columbia, Canada. This ...
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Abstract: Our three-year inquiry at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS), a community-based media arts educational center, presents a practical model illustrating how urban youth explore their own strengths and connect... more
Abstract: Our three-year inquiry at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS), a community-based media arts educational center, presents a practical model illustrating how urban youth explore their own strengths and connect themselves to a learning space in a ...
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EJ540187 - Art Education Policy in Canada.
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The paper will focus on the project Catch + Release: Mapping Stories of Cultural and Geographic Transition (2009-2013), a SSHRC supported collaborative research and creation project involving artists, art educators and designers, and the... more
The paper will focus on the project Catch + Release: Mapping Stories of Cultural and Geographic Transition (2009-2013), a SSHRC supported collaborative research and creation project involving artists, art educators and designers, and the related exhibition created for the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historical Site in Steveston, British Columbia, Canada. The Catch + Release project exhibition explores issues around the demise of the fishing industry and the changing coastal conditions on the west coast of British Columbia from a contemporary and interdisciplinary artistic perspective. Situated in a heritage museum context, this artistic research project is at the crossings of multiple disciplines such as art, pedagogy and museology. Drawing from site-specific art practices and the ways artists engage with the museum as site, this paper examines how this artist/museum partnership expands the traditional ways in which non-art museums display, present and provide pedagogical exper...
Curriculum integration often appears complex and when this happens those who are involved with providing professional development or teacher education may be inclined to promote simplistic or solution-oriented approaches to facilitate... more
Curriculum integration often appears complex and when this happens those who are involved with providing professional development or teacher education may be inclined to promote simplistic or solution-oriented approaches to facilitate integration. Many variants of a problem-solution model exist, and programs that encourage teachers to identify a few difficulties and then strategize possible ways to remove those difficulties more than likely minimize the very benefits of an integrative program. In contrast to this, we propose a conceptualization of curriculum integration that is rhizomatic. Supporting and extending the research that integrative arts practices lead to imaginative, flexible, and embodied pedagogical praxis, a rhizomatic integration of the arts values complicated and disruptive possibilities that enliven the imagination toward more socially just ways of living and learning. Integration, when understood as rhizomatic, will enable teachers to better respond to the everyday multiplicity of surprises that are part of their ever-changing world.
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... Kit Grauer introduces the theme in "An Editorial: Values and Evaluation." In "International Perspectives on Evaluation and Assessment of Visual Arts Education: A Report from the INSEA Bosschenhoofd... more
... Kit Grauer introduces the theme in "An Editorial: Values and Evaluation." In "International Perspectives on Evaluation and Assessment of Visual Arts Education: A Report from the INSEA Bosschenhoofd Conference", author Doug Boughton gives an indication of the contrast of ...
As we hurl toward the twenty first century, we are confronted at every turn by the increased interconnectedness of the global village. With the click of a switch, we are inundated with information crafted in sound bites and carefully... more
As we hurl toward the twenty first century, we are confronted at every turn by the increased interconnectedness of the global village. With the click of a switch, we are inundated with information crafted in sound bites and carefully culled images which leave us with a glossy dis-torted reality. Within ...
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EJ636226 - The Art of Teaching Art Teachers.
... Abstract: An editorial by Kit Grauer introduces this collection of articles which establish that there is no such thing as a simple definition of art education even within one culture, and that people's views can be reflected... more
... Abstract: An editorial by Kit Grauer introduces this collection of articles which establish that there is no such thing as a simple definition of art education even within one culture, and that people's views can be reflected by art educators across the world. ...
ED385476 - Art Education for Children in Crisis.
Publication View. 6540648. Beliefs of preservice teachers toward art education--[ microform]. (1996). Grauer, Kit. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1995.. Includes bibliographical references. Publication details. ...
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416 GALBRAITH AND GRAUER Zimmerman (1994a) outlined certain types of research that can be employed in collect-ing demographic data. These methods include basic research, previous demographic research, foundationalresearch, rationales,... more
416 GALBRAITH AND GRAUER Zimmerman (1994a) outlined certain types of research that can be employed in collect-ing demographic data. These methods include basic research, previous demographic research, foundationalresearch, rationales, broad-basedresearch, ...
... played out in a number of different countries. The topic is introduced in the Editorial, "The Education of Educators: Art Teacher Education around the World" (Kit Grauer). Articles that follow are:... more
... played out in a number of different countries. The topic is introduced in the Editorial, "The Education of Educators: Art Teacher Education around the World" (Kit Grauer). Articles that follow are: "Reflections on Teacher Education ...