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The Arts in Society International Award for Excellence

The Arts in Society Journal Collection offers an annual International Award for Excellence for new research or thinking that has been recognized to be outstanding by members of The Arts in Society Research Network.

The winning article is selected from the ten highest-ranked articles emerging from the peer review process. The author is invited to be a featured speaker at the next conference, where he or she is also acknowledged in a short presentation.

Award Winners for Volume 19

How Can Developing Object-Based Learning Skills During Primary Initial Teacher Training Influence the Trainee’s Approach to Classroom Teaching and Learning?

We know that arts-engaged teachers inspire arts-engaged pupils. How do we foster arts-engaged teachers for the future, whatever their disciplines? One way of doing this is through their initial teacher training (ITT). In a changing landscape of teacher training provision in the UK, with tight timeframes and a focus on literacy and numeracy, where and how can providers find the time and space to develop arts-based practice? Leeds Museums and Galleries (LMG) conducted a three-year action research project with 900 second year BA Education trainees from York St John University and Leeds Trinity University centered on the question, “how much object-based learning does a trainee need to make an impact in classroom practice?” The authors tracked “sticky learning” and found that using objects led to a 69 percent increase in confidence in using objects in teaching and museums as resources for learning, even with trainees studying nonarts disciplines. Over the course of the project, object-based learning was used to change the quality of teaching, focusing not just on subject knowledge and attainment, but also on the social value of art for creativity, well-being, and by telling stories from different perspectives. The interventions were aimed at developing the trainees’ own cultural capital.

Fellows, Kate, Bev Forrest, and Janet Spencer. 2024. "How Can Developing Object-Based Learning Skills During Primary Initial Teacher Training Influence the Trainee’s Approach to Classroom Teaching and Learning?." The International Journal of Arts Education 19 (2): 21-41. doi:10.18848/2326-9944/CGP/v19i02/21-41

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Past Award Winners

Volume 18

Black Excellence in Art/Art Education: A Critical Portrait of Murry N. DePillars

Pamela Lawton and Ryan M. Patton, The International Journal of Arts Education, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 29-47

Volume 17

Artistic Biography as Field Theory: The Case of Ithell Colquhoun—Magician, Surrealist, Feminist?

Michael Grenfell, The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 39-54

Volume 16

Sonic Fictions: Shaping Collective Urban Imaginaries through Sound

Eleni-Ira Panourgia and Guillaume Dupetit, The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 35-48

Volume 15

Challenges in Digital Storytelling: The Emergence of Adapted Video Narrative Methods for Highly Marginalized Storytellers

Christine Scoggin,The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 1–16

Volume 14

Climate Change Art: Examining How the Artistic Community Expresses the Climate Crisis

Shauna Doll and Tarah Wright, The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 13–29

Volume 13

Teaching from the Left: Visual Literacy and Social Transformation for the Twenty-First Century

Kristin Vanderlip Taylor and Lynette Henderson, The International Journal of Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 11–22

Volume 12

So, Sue Me: Legal Actions as a New Staging Ground for Performance Art

Courtney Davis, The International Journal of Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 25–30

Volume 11

Between Two Earthquakes: Gazing Beyond Kant’s Sublime in Humanitarian Disasters

Sally Cloke, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 1–18

Volume 10

The Philosophy of Localness and the Arts: A Focus on the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Aleksandra Kunce, The International Journal of Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp.1–18

Volume 9

Interrogating Women’s Experience of Ageing: Reinforcing or Challenging Clichés?

Susan Hogan, The International Journal of Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp.1–18

Volume 8

Facsimile and Originality: Changing Views of Classical Casts in Arts Education and Art History

Joseph Basile, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp.11–30

Volume 7

Art in a Hidden World: Creative Process and Invisible Anomaly

Dawn-joy Leong, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp.29–39

Volume 6

The Handed Self: Reaching Toward Individuation

Cherie Redwood, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp.221–234

Volume 5

Public Memory, Private Truths: Voices of Women and Visual Narrative in Post-apartheid South Africa

Annette Blum, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 5, Issue 6, pp.13–32

Volume 4

The Arts in a Time of Recession

Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke, The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.141–168

Common Ground Author Fund Award

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