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Unfolding Afterglow: Letters and Conversations on Teacher Renewal (Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, 1) by Brooke A. Hofsess (auth.) is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Unfolding Afterglow: Letters and Conversations on Teacher Renewal (Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, 1) about?
This title examines professional learning in the contemporary milieu of public education, considering the impact of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top on such encounters for art educators. Drawing from prominent scholars of philosophy and education (Greene, Dewey, Gadamer), aesthetic experiential play is theorized as a catalyst for teacher renewal through the embodied intensities (Merleau Ponty, Deleuze) it prompts: an aesthetic swell and afterglow. The swell is conceptualized as a movement that unmoors teachers as learners, setting them adrift towards unanticipated, surprising possibilities. Afterglow is an illuminated space that unfolds with a commitment and openness to move in swell towards the ever expanding new. This text invites readers into the findings of a qualitative research inquiry by unfolding a yearlong correspondence of letterpress printed postcards and hand rendered letters exchanged between the author and a cohort of K-12 art teachers. The innovative epistolary form evokes the relational and arts-based educational research methodologies that informed this lively aesthetic inquiry, providing new directions and possibilities for both art educators and arts rese
Who reads Unfolding Afterglow: Letters and Conversations on Teacher Renewal (Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, 1)?
It is typically read by teachers and faculty preparing courses and curriculum.
Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Brooke A. Hofsess (auth.)
- Publisher
- SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789463005296
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education, Fiction, Technology
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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