teacher creativity

Reconceptualizing Teachers' Roles
for Canada's Creative Economy

2018-2021

Primary Investigator: Dr. Sean Wiebe

Dr. Pauline Sameshima
Dr. Mindy Carter
Dr. Peter Gouzouasis
Dr. Patrick Howard
Dr. Kathryn Ricketts
Mitch McLarnon
Layal Shuman
Matthew O'Reilly
Emilee De Sommer-Dennis
Tashya Orasi

Funded by
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council

Pauline Sameshima's
Translations
Silent Belles

Problem: In designing a creative and critical experience for their students, many teachers have difficulty seeing interconnections, thinking across literacy domains, and assessing complex skills holistically (Digital Economy Research Team, 2011-2014). This lack of leads to an undervaluing of the creative outcomes that are possible in schools, and is why we
propose to reconceptualize teachers' roles through a/r/tography, a form of arts-based research that braids artmaking, researching, and teaching (a/r/t).

In a comparative case study across six Canadian sites, data will be gathered on teachers' lived experiences of becoming a/r/tographers as they develop creative practices.

We seek to understand:
(1) how creative pedagogies develop through the multiple interconnections among (a) artmaking, (b) research and (c) design thinking; and,
(2) how developing an ethos to position teachers within society as a/r/tographers can establish more measurable and immediate pathways for teacher and student contributions to the Creative Economy.

Snapshot into part of the research process at Lakehead. . .

Using the Parallaxic Praxis Model, the researchers each develop an artefact series from a defined section of the collected data. In a facilitated creativity propulsion activity, the artefacts are used in a layer of knowledge generation through a dialogic analysis called the Cathechization Process.

Matthew O'Reilly's Translations
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