Start of the PhD program
WS 2024/25
Supervision
Alexis Dworsky
Notburga Karl (AdBK Munich)
The PhD project explores the self-concept of art educators within the rule-bound school system. The training at art academies and universities, where art education students are often taught to use rule-breaking as a method of innovation, encounters a paradox in the school environment with performance assessments, societal conventions, and the penalization of rule violations. Some rules are unconsciously or consciously broken or circumvented by art educators in the school system, either to enable art classes to take place or because their internal attitude dictates rule-breaking. There appears to be a tension between the institution of the school and the self-concept of art educators. This phenomenon will be examined more closely in this group. How do art educators deal with rules, norms, and conventions? How are the rules for rule-breaking conveyed in art education? What mental spaces and atmospheres do teachers create for their students through their own rules and handling of norms?
In this PhD project, art educators from the school service will be interviewed on film about their own teaching philosophy in various didactic and social areas within the school community. Individual film formats, developed in close collaboration with the protagonists, will be created. Through different research methods, the film material will be qualitatively evaluated, and the various roles of art educators within the school system will be analyzed.
Short Biography
Jasmine Wolf is an artist and art educator living and working in Bamberg. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and was awarded the State Examination Prize in 2010 for her outstanding artistic achievements. Since 2011, she has primarily been active in art mediation and art education. From 2011 to 2013, she taught artistic fundamentals and techniques as an adjunct professor at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok in the International Program for Design and Architecture (INDA), mentoring students in their individual design tasks. Since her second state examination in 2015, she has worked at various schools within the Bavarian school system, focusing on teaching art as a school subject for children and adolescents. Currently, she is researching at the Institute for Art and Education at the University of Arts Linz under Prof. Alexis Dworsky, investigating the influence of norms, conventions, and rules on art education and how art educators consciously and unconsciously deal with them.