2024 AERA Annual Meeting Arts & Learning SIG Program

Consider attending our annual business meeting for an awards reception and panel discussion. Additionally, please join us in celebrating the many wonderful research projects in our sessions carefully curated by our Program Chair. There ar great opportunities for members who are attending AERA including a Networking and Mentorship Arts & Learning SIG event.

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2024 AERA Annual Meeting Arts & Learning SIG Program

Cultivating Art Teachers’ Identity Awareness Through Critical Reflection: Perceptions, Context, and Positionality in Art Education, Chair: Marit Dewhurst

• Making the Invisible Visible: Latina Art Teachers Navigating Issues of Oppression in the Workplace, Andrea Allen

• Assessing the Perceived Impact of a Local, Community-Engaged Mural Project on Preservice Art Educators, Caitlin Black

• Collaborative Feedback Loops: Using Teacher Action Research to Support Practice in Culturally Sustaining Art Pedagogy, Susan McCullough

• Aligning With Creative Practices: An Autoethnographic Journey of Critical Incident Moments in Art Classrooms, SoHee Koo

Impactful Arts Learning, Chair: Carolina Eve-Blatt-Gross

• Drama During Storytime Supports Preschooler’s Understanding of Story Character Feeling States, Lauren van Huisstede, et al

• Self-Reflection Through Visual Art: Social Emotional Learning Strategy and Application, Ahran Koo, et al.

• Sparking Lifelong Relationships With the Arts: Exploring the Origin Stories of Six Arts Education Stakeholders, Stephanie Reid & Jinjing Sun

• Art Teacher Education in the Anthropocene: A Collective Case Study of Embodiment and Embeddedness, Joy Bertling, et al

Arts Learning Across the Lifespan: Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Physiological Benefits, Chair: Melissa Menzer

• Creative Movement and Yoga Relate to Stress Reduction for Children in Head Start Preschool, Eleanor Brown, et al.

• This Is Our Story! Elevating Youth Voices Through Arts-Integrated Teaching, Christine Gonzelez-DeJohn, et al.

• Creation of an Arts-Based Prevention Program to Address Youth Mental Health in Schools, Lisa Ramirez, et al.

• Flourishing Through Art: Cultivating Perspective-Taking and Social Connection Skills via Visual Art Engagement, Katherine Cotter, et al.

Integrating Arts, STEM, and Literacy Education, Chair: Aleksandar Chonevski

• Art, Words, and Existence: Unveiling the Transformative Power of Incarnational Literacy, Csaba Osvath

• Drawing as Language: Expanding the Cultural and Linguistic Repertoire of Young Children, Geralyn Schroder Yu

• Exploring Arts and STEM Education: A Literature Synthesis, Heather Leary, et al.

• Your Art Matters: Perspectives of Arts Integration, John Samuels

• ‘Make a Wish’: Symbolism and Visual Metaphor in Middle-School Students’ Arts-Based Data Visualizations, Joy Bertling, et al

Teachers' Practices and Experiences in Arts Education

• A Beginning Music Teacher's Micropolitical Literacy Development, Ryan Shaw
• Do Teachers’ Beliefs About Preschool Children’s Developmental Skills and Teaching Self-Efficacies Predict Beliefs About Drama?, Scott Marley, et al.
• Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Identities and Beliefs Related to Creativity and Artistry in Education, Graham Johnson
• Supporting Students’ Autonomy in Acting Classrooms: Strategies Employed by Theatre Teachers, Xiaorong Zhang & Kimberly Sheridan
• “Mirrors and Windows:” A Case Study of Educator’s Culturally Responsive Teaching Aspirations and Syllabi Transformation in the Arts, Valdijah Ambrose Brown, et al. 

Culturally Responsive and Democratic Arts Education

• Beyond Monolithic Views: Thirdspace and Asian Art Museum Education, William Zhou
• Comparing Refugee Children With Disabilities and Parents’ Values in Learning Through the Arts in Canada, Susan Barber & Robert Williamson
• “It . . . Just Made Me Take a Step Back”: The Impact of Culturally Relevant Arts Integration, Karen Burgard
• Theatrical Improvisation as Social Group Work at Hull House, Laura Carter-Stone
• Unveiling Perspectives: Constructing Educational Possibilities Through the Praxes of Black Women Artists, Jacqueline Cofield