Papers by victoria pavlou
The international journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 2007
International Journal of Education Through Art, Mar 1, 2023
The international journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, 2007
International Journal of Education Through Art, Mar 1, 2023
Arts Education Policy Review
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... 2.0 tools in their classroom practices and adjust to this high-tech setting, since they might... more ... 2.0 tools in their classroom practices and adjust to this high-tech setting, since they might not be able to follow their students ... Does the above holds for Web 2.0 tools integration? ... Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications. ...
International Journal of Education Through Art, 2020
Review of: Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K thr... more Review of: Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K through High School, D. Sickler-Voigth (2020)New York and London: Routledge, 438 pp.,ISBN 978-1-13854-931-9, h/bk, £104.00
Visual Inquiry, 2013
In many countries, generalist teachers and not art specialists teach art in primary education. Th... more In many countries, generalist teachers and not art specialists teach art in primary education. This article examines the range of pre-service primary school teachers' aesthetic preference and explores what kind of artworks they would most likely choose for organizing learning activities for children, as well as reasons that influence their choices. The kind of artworks they choose will likely have an effect on their pupils' understandings of art. A mixed methodology research study was carried out with 91 pre-service primary school teachers in Cyprus. The data indicate that the participants had a rather limited understanding of art and reflected a narrow range of ideas and values. Although many participants did not perform nonreflective judgments about artworks, their strong attraction to colours and notions of realism entwine with expression implied that popular culture ideas and modernism ideas about art would be largely reflected in their teaching, thus denying children with encounters with other forms of art. introduction In a world that is increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children to understand and respond to the visual images around them. Visual arts education has a special role to play in this as it is the subject that deals directly with visual images and has specific aims towards art understanding
Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
Distance-learning studies have seen an incredible growth in the last 20 years. The majority of th... more Distance-learning studies have seen an incredible growth in the last 20 years. The majority of these were at postgraduate level. Fewer were undergraduate and even fewer were in initial teacher education training. Within these, there are even fewer examples of art education courses as it was frequently argued that the experiential aspect of these courses could not be translated into a remote learning-teaching environment. Nevertheless, Higher Education is moving rapidly toward an expansion of distance learning. The article discusses characteristics of online learning in the field of art education for elementary school teachers. It focuses on lessons learnt during the Covid-19 Emergency Remote Teaching in the context of preservice elementary generalist teachers and how the pandemic has accelerated the "digitalization" turn. It discusses opportunities for experiential, collaborative and active learning that are transformative enough to overturn stereotypes and promote perceptions of self-efficacy in art learning. Further, it affirms necessary aspects of presence in an online environment-social, cognitive and teacher presence-to achieve successful student outcomes for non-art specialists. Drawing from pedagogy, the implications of the study offer policy recommendations to Higher Educational Institutions on how to support both teacher educators and pre-service teachers in the context of art learning.
International Journal of Art & Design Education
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects... more This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
International Journal of Education Through Art, 2021
In many countries, the subject of art in primary education is entrusted to generalist teachers ra... more In many countries, the subject of art in primary education is entrusted to generalist teachers rather than art specialists. This article explores ways of promoting in-depth learning in art education courses while simultaneously gaining an understanding of how preservice generalists develop their professional identities. This study focuses on the journey of five senior B.Ed. in primary education students from Frederick University in Cyprus, who were invited to engage with reflective practices through visual journaling on art, education and on art integration with social issues. The findings suggest that reflective visual journals can be used to promote generalist preservice teachers’ autonomy and self-reliance in their art making and art responding as well as in the design of art units for their future pupils. The implications of the study open up possibilities for teacher education as it recognizes the role of visual journaling in enhancing different forms of knowledge, acknowledgin...
Yearbook of the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO), 2021
International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
The emergence of new media provides new tools for promoting critical thinking and creativity in a... more The emergence of new media provides new tools for promoting critical thinking and creativity in an environment that encourages collaboration, co-authoring and sharing ideas and artworks with audiences. Embedding new media in art lessons and integrating art with other disciplines not only promotes visual competence but also transversal competences necessary for the future lives of children. Despite the many benefits that this process entails, there is still no broad integration of new media in art lessons or art integration through technology in primary schools, as teachers are often oblivious of the new possibilities and means of engaging children. However, there is a need to embrace today's dominant culture of communication if we really want to prepare children for the future. This article is about art technology integration in the primary classroom. It discusses ways of studying important real-life issues with children and of bridging the gap between school life and daily life. It reports on two case studies with sixth grade classes (11-12 years old) that engaged in a stop motion animation project to communicate messages that were important to the children. Children shared powerful stories, anchored in real-life contexts and developed critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills. The findings contribute to the discussions about arts integration that are grounded in empirical qualitative data. The implications of the study move beyond the art subject itself and highlight how generalist teachers can embrace interdisciplinarity and art integration, and view art as transformative pedagogy in the curriculum.
International Journal of Education the Arts, Sep 20, 2014
In a world that is becoming increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children... more In a world that is becoming increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children to better understand images. A school subject that deals directly with image understanding is visual arts. This article discusses an interdisciplinary approach to promote art understanding, within a multimodal environment that combines art and music. The approach was tested with pre-service elementary school teachers (experimental and control group). The target group is of special interest because, in many countries, generalist-teachers and not art-specialists teach art in elementary schools. The findings indicated that when art viewing was accompanied by musical stimulus (experimental group), viewers/listeners were able to exhibit a variety of artappreciation skills and to move to elaborated responses to the artworks. The findings have implications for teacher-training courses as they suggest ways of enhancing future 1 Artviewing activities with children involve looking at artworks, observing carefully, thinking and talking about, questioning, deriving meaning, interpreting and discussing.
International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2015
This article focuses on ways of building preservice primary teachers' confidence in teaching art ... more This article focuses on ways of building preservice primary teachers' confidence in teaching art with artworks and, in particular, on how to develop their pedagogical content knowing. It is suggested that through opportunities offered for engaging in observational and reflective practices with artworks an initial groundwork is set that can challenge pre-service teachers' preconceptions about art and promote an aesthetic form of inquiry. A qualitative approach was followed which included in-depth interviews with twenty pre-service teachers regarding their attitudes and knowledge towards artworks. The findings indicate that enhancing teachers' abilities to practice factual inquiries and then move on to interpretive inquiries of artworks can help them learn how to learn about artworks and how to organise meaningful art viewing activities with children. Issues relating to the participants' level of aesthetic understanding are also discussed as participants were asked to engage with artworks and their aesthetic encounters were documented.
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Papers by victoria pavlou