This study is a hermeneutic phenomenological investigation into the lived experiences of teachers implementing the National Core Art Standards alongside the California Visual Art Standards, with a specific lens on culturally responsive teaching practices. Utilizing Geneva Gay's theoretical framework for culturally responsive teaching, this study…

The aim of this qualitative exploratory case study was to examine elementary school arts teachers' perceptions of implementing social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons during in-person instruction in elementary classrooms in a well-known school district in New York City. The problem addressed in this study was the inability of most elementary…

In response to the federal Race to the Top grant initiative that aimed to increase teacher accountability, the state of Tennessee created the Tennessee Student Growth Portfolio Model (TSGPM) to evaluate its non-tested teachers. This optional alternate evaluation model for non-tested teachers was developed and piloted by fine arts educators in the…

The articles in this work address histories of how visual art educators have come to exist within scholarship on teacher evaluation. This study, reconceptualized outside of methodology through a post qualitative framework of inquiry, embodies poststructural feminist theories of ethics, exemplifying living theory and process as 'lifework'.…

This study aimed to understand how and why social media and other online platforms are used as curricular resources by preservice teachers during their semester of student teaching. Furthermore, the study examined how preservice art teachers critically analyzed and transformed their approach to using online sources through the use of a curricular…

Integrating contemporary artmaking practices, specifically approaches to matter (which includes materials, objects, bodies, spaces, etc.) within PK-12 art education, has potential to open pathways for artmaking, meaning, and identity formation. However, art education literature suggests that translation of contemporary artmaking practices into…

How do multitextual reflection experiences impact reflective practices for pre-service art education teachers? The research conducted for my dissertation was guided by this research question. My interest was to find out if multitextual reflection experiences might impact reflective practices for pre-service art teachers and in what ways those…

Educators, parents, and researchers uphold that intentional social emotional learning (SEL) can positively benefit student well-being, especially when the learning is integrated into all educational content areas. The problem under study was that though research has highlighted the connection between SEL and visual art education, how teachers…

Problem: In 1972, the Marland Report included visual arts in the federal definition of giftedness, yet service for those with artistic aptitude remains elusive (Rinn, Mun & Hodges, 2022). This qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study (Creswell, 2014; Finley, 2009; Leavy, 2017; Marme Thompson, 2014; Van Manen, 1990) explores the…

How might teacher educators build a reflective and supportive community of practice with pre-service teachers? How might a visual (intermedia) journaling practice support critical and reflective thinking? How might an arts-based intermedia approach to analysis inform teacher educator pedagogical methods? These questions evolved and emerged…

Foucauldian genealogy provides a space to think differently. Through an analysis of policy documents from the field of education and practitioner-oriented publications in the field of art education from 1983 to 2019, this genealogical dissertation traced the emergence of teacher effectiveness as a normalized discourse in educational policy and…

University-based teacher educators' first three years on the job are often imbued with tension, as they must renegotiate their professional identities and pedagogical philosophies in relation to ambiguous and sometimes conflicting expectations of what they should do and stand for in this role. As role models for aspiring art teachers, art teacher…

Teacher attrition is most prevalent among novice teachers and occurs largely as a result of poor job satisfaction. Content-specific mentoring interventions demonstrate effectiveness in combating novice teacher attrition, but are inaccessible by visual and performing arts teachers due to their status as one-person departments within school…

This mixed-methods study of visual art educators teaching in urban public school systems in Tennessee was designed to explore common conditions, experiences, and attitudes related to art teacher efficacy. The study examined relationships between aspects of teacher efficacy and voluntary participation in professional development. Common conditions…

In this study, a practicing elementary art teacher enacts the multiple imaginations rooted in a/r/tography while examining the complex experiences of the teacher engaged in new curricular work. A/r/tography is framed as a type of phenomenology of practice--a living and in-process inquiry--which accepts the artist/researcher/teacher as points of…