11:35-12:50 | Room: 321B (3F)
Sunday Session II Creativity in Education Session Chair: Jordan Nielsen 55291
11:35-12:00 | 321B (3F)
The Effects of Informal Learning on the Creative Expression of Craft Design Sun Qianang, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Kim Eunyoung, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Craft design education can be defined with professional practice and creative expressions in a comprehensive domain. While the apprenticeship used to be a core of traditional ways of knowing in craft education， and the modern craft designers are learning through working in creative studios and heuristic teaching to promote their original performances. For the assessment of creative expression, both apprenticeship and heuristic teaching mainly focuses on the outcomes, and there has been less attention to the process of practice, which may involve a surprise in the result. This paper focuses on the process of creating crafts to explore the effects of informal learning with social interactions such as visiting workshops, museums, peer discussions, and community learning on creative expressions. The purpose of this research is to explore how do informal learning affects the practicing process of ceramics, particularly in the shaping process, so that gives rise to adjust the details of expression and creative solution. We have conducted qualitative research through a survey of 80 undergraduate students and interview six ceramic designers in their early career to conducting a thematic analysis. The results showed that the knowledge from informal learning is less systematic, but the tacit knowledge has mentioned as a kind of ability to generate creative solutions by accident in the process of making ceramics. This study attempts to spark new views for the assessment of creative expressions in craft design and provide further insights into design education. 53718
12:00-12:25 | 321B (3F)
Developing Empathy through the Writing of Children’s Books Claudine Fernandez, Artistic Strategies Academy, Singapore
Description: In this workshop, participants will get to witness how children’s empathetic imagination can be developed and nurtured through the process of writing and publishing of illustrated children’s books. They would also be able to draw connections between empathy and the stories and illustrations created by elementary school students from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds. These students have also donated the profits from the sales of their books to their adopted charities and raised thousands of dollars. Throughout the session, participants will take part in several interactive and hands-on activities that they could immediately use in their own classrooms. These activities are multi-sensorial artistic activities that are designed to engage and challenge the learners. Rationale: As we move towards the uncertain and unpredictable future, it becomes increasingly necessary to instil empathy in our students so that they will always approach the world with humanity, compassion for the environment and mindfulness of others. Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn how to; 1. Guide and support diverse learners in increasing their levels of empathetic imagination through the planning, drafting and creation of a story about other disenfranchised characters. 2. Facilitate a dialogic peer-review session between diverse learners and their target audience to increase the level of understanding and empathy among all parties, leading to a more multilayered and richer creation of the children’s books. 3. Engage and support diverse learners in connecting and empathising with the broader community through the writing of children’s books. 55177
12:25-12:50 | 321B (3F)
Examining the Use of Comics and Sequential Art in Professional Degree Programs and Implications for Academic Libraries Jordan Nielsen, San Francisco State University, United States Kathryn Houk, University of Nevada, United States
There is a growing, documented trend in undergraduate humanities, arts and social science curricula to include comics as a tool for teaching and learning, and many academic libraries have responded by developing comic collections that support this. More recently, comics have been adopted by faculty who teach professional students at the graduate level in several fields including medicine, engineering, and business. How are students enrolled in professional graduate degrees engaging with comics or sequential art to better understand concepts in their field of study? What does this mean for library collections and services, particularly for those librarians who provide information literacy instruction and research support for professional programs? This presentation will attempt to answer these questions by describing the results and reasoned implications from a review of the educational literature available for professional degree programs. The presenters will highlight instructional approaches that integrate the use of comics and sequential art in the university classroom and how adoption of comics impacts collection development, information literacy, and research services in academic libraries.
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