Chasing Pedagogy. Searching for a new school portrait via pedagogic art practice and the imaging of education
Joanna’s research examines where the pedagogic turn in contemporary art practice proposes different potentials and possibilities of school. Joanna examines different forms and configurations of school through key contemporary and historical art practice, where production and relations with others perform new pedagogical interactions. Research combines pedagogic, co-operative methodologies with photographic image making, exploring where contemporary art practice makes distinct forms of pedagogy visible. She intends to expose how school can be performed as unique, complex, public/not-public sites; where its effects move outwards to inform and shape cultural and societal production.
Published research
Fursman, Joanna (2020) Chasing Pedagogy: Searching for a new school portrait, or can this be a school if it doesn't look like one? International Journal of Education through Art. Vol 16. No 2. pp 197-207.
Conference presentations
looking for a new school portrait, collaborative exhibition at The Hatch Gallery for Making at the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) World Congress, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, July 2019.
Chasing Pedagogy: image-based art practice in education research; for Arts Based Education Research (ABER) Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2019.
Looking for a New School Portrait (a school in a school). Workshop symposium for Making a Third Space at the Breitner Academie, Amsterdam. June 2019.
Photographic research in art education. Art and Design as an Agent for Change, International Journal for Art and Design Education (Ijade). National College for Art and Design, Dublin 2017.
Chasing Pedagogy: a walk around a school with a camera. C-Space conferences at Birmingham City University July 2017.
Remaking Dotty; Unflattening Research, Research Matters, Birmingham Institute for Creative Arts (2016)
Using photography in art education research. Paper delivered for the National Society for Education through Art and Design (2015). Birmingham Midland Institute.
Not an Art-Room; at Art for Life: Race, Gender, Disability and Class - Critical Discourses Around Participation in Arts Education International Journal for Art and Design Education (Ijade) conferences, University of Chester (2013)