Rethinking art education as an interdisciplinary practice
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The project encompassed the research of relations between various disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches in primary teacher education, and initiating cooperation with a nature park to create a platform for creative dialogue between visual and nonvisual arts and natural sciences, that is, botany. The initial goal of the project was the experience of a place-based art education project, which then extended to raising ecological awareness and addressing the need to preserve local natural heritage through several interrelated art educational projects. The project explored the points of intersection of arts and natural sciences. It also enforced the creative aspect of educational practice of prospective primary education teachers by combining the concepts of place-based education and thematic teaching method in a multidisciplinary environment as well as balancing fieldwork and the classroom learning process. A collaborative approach, interdisciplinary mentoring team, and students’ independence to organize their time and plan the stages of their projects introduced a higher level of involvement and a stronger commitment to the research
Keywords: Art education; artist’s book; botany; interdisciplinary research; printmaking.
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