Putting It Together
Artographic awareness through collaborative teaching in a musical theatre educational program
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https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5468Keywords:
a/r/tography, artography, artographic awareness, a/r/tographic community, collaborative teaching, musical theatre, multidisciplinary, higher educationAbstract
This article demonstrates how collaborative teaching in the field of musical theatre has served as a platform for uncovering the research methodology of artography. This methodology explores the intricate entanglement of the roles of artist, researcher, and teacher. The reorganization of a new curriculum and collaborative teaching among a group of teachers at the bachelor program in musical theatre at Kristiania University College forms the basis of our reflections. We, the two authors, were involved in this process. We connect these experiences to theories of artography and collaborative teaching. We argue that our multidisciplinary artographic awareness relied on certain conditions of growth within the teacher group. These growth conditions include: 1) a culture of sharing pedagogy among colleagues, 2) working beyond an individual’s level of comfort through co-teaching and 3) reevaluating teaching habits.
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