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Hall - 2010 - Making Art, Teaching Art, Learning Art Exploring
Hall - 2010 - Making Art, Teaching Art, Learning Art Exploring
Abstract
The article explores the concept of the artist impact measurement. The ATS operates in a
teacher, drawing upon an overview of relevant context that includes languages, cultures and
literature and two related pieces of research: the identities from frameworks in education and art
first investigated practices within the Artist that can be both complementary and opposi-
Teacher Scheme (ATS); the second sought to tional. Artist teachers need to develop skills of
understand the perceptions of practice-based negotiation through which they can articulate and
coursework in an MA Art Education programme continuously reappraise their art practice and, at
at Roehampton University in London. Common- an appropriate stage, use that practice to inform
alities and differences between the perceptions their teaching.
and understandings of artist teachers (including
masters’ students), their tutors and gallery educa-
tors were explored. The data for each piece of
research were collected through unstructured,
open-ended interviews. A significant reflexive
and autobiographical dimension for the research
was motivated by my own identity as an artist
teacher, and by the exploration of reflective prac-
tice as a potential framework for realising and
sustaining an artist teacher identity and practice.
The research concluded that connections
between art practice and teaching are complex,
diverse, difficult to articulate, challenging to imple-
ment and do not easily lend themselves to simple