CAVICContemporary Art and Visual

Culture in EducationDanish Research

Ingelise Flensborg Associated professor, Ph.D.

Examples of individual and common interests

• Visual culture in education• Art education• Gallery education• Visual forms of experience• Media, it, and the changing of the teacherprofession

in a digital age• Performativity• Practices of looking• Visual ethnography• Aesthetic learning processes

New areas of interest

• Multimodality• Pervasive computing• Mobile devices• Digital ground• learning processes• Sense-based forms of experience• Metacognition, distributed cognition and

Visual Design

Visual methods in research• Educational anthropolgical studies of sense-

based rationales in visual orientation strategies

• Visual metaphors as embodied methods• Visual metodological strategies for exploring

postures and movements• Visual method for investigating

performances- • visual interventions

visual culture in education

Visuel kulturelle Kompetencer(hvorhen)

Visuel kulturelle potentialer(hvad)

Visuel kulturDidaktik

Æstetisk modus for læring(hvordan)

Visuel kultur pædagogik

My own research interest

– Children’s drawings- how can children’s drawings tell about their spatial knowledge and cognitive development?

• Pre-school art education- an empirical work in progress on children’s bodily perceptions and responses to art

• Education through gestures and rituals– Tingbjerg –a ghetto in Copenhagen –an architectural and

sociological project about the use and ’ownership’ of space and place.

• Bodily interaction with environment spatial orientation

The interaction creates basic form of structures

Used to build a relational reference system

Which can be ‘translated’ to graphic representations

shows a polycentric dynamic attention