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 are a lot of other great opportunities for members who are attending AERA including a Networking and Mentorship Arts & Learning SIG event.
Friday, April 22
11:30 am -1:30 pm (Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: South Building, Level 1, Point Loma)
Embodied Knowledge and Performances of Radical Relationality
Chair: Matt Omasta
Discussant: Peter Jacob Woods
Choreographing Diasporic Pedagogies: Indigenous Dance as Language Learning
Maria J. Ruiz-Martinez
Nature-Based Art in Early Grades Teaching and Teacher Preparation: Reflections on Practice (in Anthropocene)
Bernadette Bridget Musetti, Desiree Medina
Activating Artful Journeys with Things: Walking-with-Object Itineraries as Sensual A/r/tography
Anita Sinner, Rita L. Irwin, Ching-Chiu Lin
2:30-4:00 pm (Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: South Building, Level 1, Point Loma)
A Transversal Understanding of the International Perspectives on Community Arts Education
Chair: Anita Sinner
Transversality Hub: Towards a New Mode of Learning for Community Arts Education Practice
Ching-Chin Lin, Annita Sinner, Rita L. Irwin
Exploring Intersections of Comics, Adaptation and Community Art Education
Julian Lawrence
Finding Possibility in the Liminality of Socially Engaged Arts: Fostering Learning and Wellbeing with Refugee
Kate Collins
Conversations with Gardens: Artful Spaces in Community Art Education
Patricia (Trish) Osler
Saturday, April 23
8:00-9:30 am (San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B)
Arts Education Policy
Chair: Ryan David Shaw
Appraising Metropolitan Arts Education Partnerships: A Policy Analysis
Ryan David Shaw, Cara Bernard
Turnaround Arts Pilot Program: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Bri’Ann Wright
Investigating the Educational Benefits of K-12 School Arts
Daniel Henry Bowen, Brian Kisida
11:30 am – 1:00 pm (San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B)
Attention to Social and Emotional Outcomes in Arts Education
Chair: Colleen M. Conway
Art Saved My Life: Building Resiliency for Students Struggling with Trauma
Erin Jacob Blublaugh
Exploring the Impact of Creative Drama on Dual Language Learners’ Social and Emotional Development
Qianyi Gao
Learning How to See Social Emotional Learning in Youth Arts Practice
Garazi Lopez de Aguileta, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Yorel Lashley, Stephanie Richards
4:15-5:45 pm (SIG Virtual Rooms, SIG-Arts and Learning Virtual Roundtable Session Room)
Creativity and Arts Integration
Chair: Stephanie F. Reid
Boundaries in Creative Problem Solving—Windows to Express
Eliza Pitri, Agni Stylianou-Georgiou
Integrated Learning in Elementary Arts Education: Problems and Possibilities
Mark A. Graham, Tara Carpenter Estrada
STEM Studio: Bridging Science with Dance through Arts-Based Learning
Kaitlyn May, Z. Derevjanik, Kelly Woodall Guyotte
6:00-7:30 pm (Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: South Building, Level 3, Mission Hills)
Arts and Learning SIG Business Meeting
Officers: Amanda Claudia Wager, Matt Omasta, Joy G. Bertling, Sarah T. Travis, Mary McAvoy, Joseph Elefante, Megan Troxel Deeg
Sunday, April 24
8:00-9:30 am (Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: South Building, Level 3, Miramar)
Youth Voices and Positionality in the Arts
The Agentic Positioning of Youth in Contemporary Visual Art Education Research: A Methodological Examination
Angela L. Eckhoff
Rights, Representation, and Belonging in Children’s Books about Going to an Art Museum
David Donahue
Considering Dramatic Improvisation to Support Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Laura Carter-Stone
Authoring Pandemic Personal Narratives: Middle-Grade Students’ Representations of Life during the 2020-21 School Year
Stephanie F. Reid