Transnational tomorrows today:
Graduate student futures and imaginaries for art education
Cover Image: Photo: Akram Ahmadi Tavana. Artwork: Fazila Teymuri.
Volume 8, Issue 1
May 2022
Guest Editors: Anita Sinner, Kazuyo Nakamura and Elly Yazdanpanah
Transnational Tomorrows Today: Graduate student futures and imaginaries for art education
On the cusp of UNESCO’s International Arts Education Week in May, our special issue brings together graduate student voices connecting three learning sites in Japan, Canada and Iran, to explore why the potential of teaching for tomorrow lies in how higher education today embraces shifts in horizons of transnational awareness with, in and through the arts. Our three sites were ‘host nations’ for courses in the Fall of 2021 that brought together students joining online (and from many locations beyond), making our community of practice diversified, inclusive, accessible, and part of ever-growing multiple networks of relations. In this collection we activate conversations with members of the next generation, our emerging scholars, to reimagine educative futures by forging new collaborations that promote greater cultural diversity, intercultural dialogues and social inclusion and cohesion with responsiveness and awareness. We respectfully invite you to join us on this venture.
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Volume 8, Issue 1
EDITORIAL – TRANSNATIONAL TOMORROWS TODAY: GRADUATE STUDENT FUTURES AND IMAGINARIES FOR ART EDUCATION
Anita Sinner, Kazuyo Nakamura and Elly Yazdanpanah
Volume 8, Issue 1.1
JAPAN – A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CURRICULA FOR TRAINING ART TEACHERS BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA: FOCUSING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY
Dian Jin, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.2
JAPAN – CULTIVATING CHILDREN’S SELF-EXPRESSION THROUGH SELF-PORTRAITS BASED ON DEWEY’S THEORY OF EXPERIENCE
Congmao Li, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.3
JAPAN – PROMOTING CHILDREN’S INTEREST IN ART APPRECIATION THROUGH PLAY ACTIVITIES
Jiachen Jiang, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.4
JAPAN – DEVELOPING CHILDREN’S ‘EYE-FOR-DESIGN’ TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Ryohei Oshima, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.5
JAPAN – CHILD-CENTERED CURRICULUM TO DEVELOP AESTHETIC ABILITY: USING ART CARDS
Xiyu Zhang, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.6
INTERLUDES – MAKING MULTI-RACKS THAT FULFILL THE SDGS A VISUAL ESSAY
Wada Motoki, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.7
INTERLUDES – THE GESTURE OF TIME
A VISUAL ESSAYNatalie Pavlik, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.8
INTERLUDES – EMPATHY AND THE FEELING OF VALUING: CHERISH
A VISUAL ESSAYNao Kameishi, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.9
INTERLUDES – WHAT DOES MY ART EDUCATION LOOK LIKE?
A VISUAL ESSAYFatemeh Abbasi, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.10
CANADA – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, ART EDUCATION, AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY: BUILDING PEDAGOGICAL FUTURES
Maggie McCutcheon, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.11
CANADA – THE POTENTIAL FOR LEARNING IN PUBLIC SPACES AND WITH PUBLIC ART:
AN EXPLORATION IN RELATION TO THE SDGSSarah Pearson, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.12
CANADA – A SELF-REFLECTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN MONTREAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Sophia Boyadjian, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.13
CANADA – REFLECTING UPON COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY: THE SDGS, ART CARD GAMES AND STORYTELLING
Chantal Archambault, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.14
CANADA – WHAT CONNECTS A BOOK AND A TREE?
Natalie Pavlik, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.15
CANADA – MEMORY HERBARIUM: DRAWING AND LISTENING WITH PLANTS
Manuela Ochoa Ronderos, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.16
INTERLUDES – WHAT DO YOU HAVE AT HAND? CREATING ART TOGETHER A VISUAL ESSAY
Akram Ahmadi Tavana, Alzahra University
Fazila Teymuri, Khatereh Feyzi and Golsoom Sadat, Mehrhouse (NGO)
Volume 8, Issue 1.17
INTERLUDES – ART CARD GAME: ACTIVATING APPRECIATION OF TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH PLAY. A GROUP EXHIBITION
Jiachen Jiang, Hiroshima University
Manuela Ochoa, Chantal Archambault and Eija Loponen-Stephenson, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.18
INTERLUDES – PEACE INSTRUCTIONS. A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION
Xiyu Zhang and Ryohei Oshima,Hiroshima University
Elora Crawford, Sophia Boyadjian, Fatima Abbasi, Concordia University
Volume 8, Issue 1.19
INTERLUDES – AN EXCHANGE OF LOCALITY: VIDEO REFLECTIONS ON THE SDGS. A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION
Ashu Gera, Jacky Lo, Maggie McCutcheon and Marguerite Marion-Reyes, Concordia University
Congmao Li and Dian Jin, Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.20
INTERLUDES – GLOBAL COLLABORATION THROUGH TIME AND PROCESS. A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Jackie Wexler, Natalie Pavlik, Sarah Pearson and Sylvia R. Erlichman-Gross, Concordia University
Nao Kameishi, Motoki Wada,Hiroshima University
Volume 8, Issue 1.21
IRAN – A TRANSNATIONAL READING JOURNEY: OUR COLLABORATIVE REFLECTION ON NEGOTIATING OF POWER STRUCTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Siavash Farkhak, Elly Yazdanpanah, Saman Farkhak, Nima Afshari, Negar Honarpisheh, Mozhgan Habibi, Saba Jeddy, Sara Amjadian, Hooman Mehrazin and Sepideh Honarmand
Volume 8, Issue 1.22
IRAN – OUR ART ROOM SATURDAYS
Akram Ahmadi Tavana, Mehrhouse (NGO)
Volume 8, Issue 1.23
IRAN – THREE TEACHING ‘SATURDAYS’ AND FOUCAULT’S ‘KNOWLEDGE-POWER’: DISCOURSE IN THE SHADOW OF UNSETTLED SOCIAL SITUATION IN IRAN
Hamid Hamidi, Tehran Art University
Volume 8, Issue 1.24
IRAN – A PERSONAL NARRATION OF A SEWING STUDIO: A FOCUS ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN’S SELF-CONFIDENCE IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Mahsa Hamidi, Iran University of Science and Technology
Volume 8, Issue 1.25
BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR AUTHORS
TRANSNATIONAL TOMORROWS TODAY: GRADUATE STUDENT FUTURES AND IMAGINARIES FOR ART EDUCATION
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