Project Team
Adam Ellis, Sociology
Jessica Rumboldt, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Project Summary
This research project seeks to explore and understand how urban arts may be utilized as a teaching mechanism to increase engagement in course content and to engage in decolonizing/student-centred learning. In this respect, our project will examine whether students find learning advantages by not only utilizing pre-existing urban art to learn about core theory/issues, but also to express their own insights through artistic expression (e.g., using hip hop as a visual/linguistic/sonic tool to understand and critically articulate how they see the world).
References
Culton, K., and Munoz, J.A. (2016). Lady Gaga Meets Ritzer: Using Music to Teach Sociological Theory. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. 3(1) 35-43.
Holtzman, M. (2005). Teaching Sociological through Active Learning: The Irrigation Exercise. Teaching Sociology. 33(2), 206-12.
Hunter, L., and Frawley, E. (2022). Engaging Students Using an Arts-Based Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Sociological Theory through Film. Teaching Sociology. 0(0), 1-13.
Rieger, K., and Chermonas, M. (2013). Arts-Based Learning: Analysis of the Concept for Nursing Education. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 10(1), 53-62.
Perry, M., Maffulli, N., Wilson, S., and Morrisey, D. (2011). The Effectiveness of Arts-Based Interventions in Medical Education: A Literature Review. Medical Education. 45(2), 141-48.