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Welcome to the virtual symposium of Arts-Based Inquiry in Education. Participating students in this seminar learn about the traditions, theories and practices of including the arts as a part of social science inquiry.  Specifically, we have reviewed the ways in which the visual, literary, and performing arts have been included in connection to educational inquiry as data, analysis, and/or representation of findings.  We have discussed the increased presence of artistic practices in social science inquiry and the increased presence of data and research in art-making.  The premise of this Arts-Based Research course has been that the more researchers and artists can turn to one another for inspiration as well as for new, creative tools to answer ongoing social questions, the richer our understandings can be! Students in this course have read chapters from Cahnmann-Taylor and Siegesmund's (2018) book, Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice (second edition) as well as chapters from the first 2008 edition as well as numerous other books, articles, and websites to inform the possibilities for scholartistry for 2020 and beyond.  Projects on this padlet represent studies in both seedling and full bloom stages, from students in their first or last semesters of study in graduate programs.  Despite unprecedented challenges during Fall 2020, these participating students exceeded every expectation in this course that required rigorous reading for weekly class participation, creative new projects, and "citizenship" through the publication of book reviews regarding new arts-based inquiries.  Thank you for celebrating these many accomplishments with us on this page.

Sincerely,

Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor, Professor

Language and Literacy Education, UGA
contact: cahnmann@uga.edu

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Research Summary

I have had the privilege of working across numerous fields related to creativity, identity, power, and the arts in TESOL, bilingual, and foreign language education. I am deeply influenced by pedogogy and theatre of the oppressed (Augusto Boal & Paulo Freire); poetic and arts-based ethnography (Ruth Behar; Renato Rosaldo); socio- and political linguistics (Ana Celia Zentella; Nancy Hornberger; Walt Wolfram; Fred Erickson); numerous poets (Alicia Ostriker; Michael Waters; Paula McLain; Jane Hirshfield; Dorianne Laux); & mentors in these and related fields too numerous to mention. I am also always influenced by the smart and courageous students whom I advise and who take me to all new thoughts and awareness. These students include: Dell Giles, Greg McClure, Erika Vasconcelos, Jennifer Wooten, Yohan Hwang, Stephanie Abraham, Michelle Thorne, Kuo Zhang, Rhia Kilpatrick, James Coda, Sharon Nuruddin, Kathleen McGovern, Viviane Alves, Helena Alonso, Wei-Yi Lee, among many many others with whom I've had the privilege of working.

Biography

Professor of TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor's honors include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Scholar-Artist Residency Award (Guanajuato, MX); 2015 Beckman Award for Professors Who Inspire, a 2013-14 Fulbright Award (Oaxaca, Mexico), three NEA Big Read Grants (Jeffers 2015; Poe 2016; Hua 2018), top Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes, a Jewish Currents Prize, first place in Anthropology and Humanism poetry prize, a Leeway Poetry Grant, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. Cahnmann-Taylor has published Imperfect Tense [poems] (Whitepoint Press, 2016), and co-authored two books in education, Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education (Routledge 2008, second edition In Press). Her numerous poems, essays, and articles about language learning have appeared in the Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Women's Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, Puerto Del Sol, Mom Egg, Anthropology and Humanism, Language Arts, TESOL Journal, and many other literary and scholarly homes. She judges the annual Anthropology & Humanism poetry contest and is the editor of the journal's ethnographic poetry section. She publishes Misha's Poetry Cast [featuring poets on poetry and language education] and runs an annual "Seat in the Shade" poetry series in Athens, Georgia. She aims to raise two Spanish-English bilingual-bicultural children and to enhance Americans' access to world languages, creative literacies, and multicultural humilities. Follow her blog at http://teachersactup.com

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The College of Education, founded in 1908, is an integral part of the University of Georgia. Perennially ranked among the nation's top research-extensive institutes, the College continues to be a center for innovative research, teaching and service projects of local, national and international interest.

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Visual autoethnography as an international student in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The submissions in purple were also part of the 4'33'' competition at UGA. 10 finalists were selected to compete in this university-wide event include 5 peers in this course.  We congratulate all who submitted projects to this competition and give a special shout out (white!) to Paula Reynaldi for receiving honorable mention.

About the 4'33'' competition:

The 4 minutes, 33 seconds contest highlights UGA student research in the arts and provides an opportunity to win prizes and to share creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators, and alumni throughout the university community.
Site: https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
How to get free tickets:
https://live.ugatheatre.com/433-spotlight-awards-nov-20-dec-18/

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English Education Zoom  Chat Poetry

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About Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor and the Arts-Based Research Seminar, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia

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About Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor and the Arts-Based Research Seminar, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia

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The arts, education, and inquiry always have made sense to me. From the time I started teaching in Los Angeles Unified School District as a bilingual fourth grade teacher to my experiences as a bilingual researcher and Professor of TESOL and World Language Education, the arts have been pathways to new and more joyful thinking and learning across differences in language and perspective.

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Who is your professor? / ¿Quién es su profesora?

MELISA "Misha" CAHNMANN-TAYLOR (English)

Email: cahnmann@uga.edu

website: www.teachersactup.com

MELISA "Misha" CAHNMANN-TAYLOR, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, is co-author of four scholarly books in education: Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (2010); two editions of Arts-Based Research in Education (2008; second edition, 2018) and Enlivening the Language Classroom with Drama and Improv. A poet, she is also the author of a book of poems, Imperfect Tense, (2016), and currently serves as a Fulbright Ambassador Alum speaking about the power of poetry and theatre in teaching second or additional languages. Winner of four "Big Read" Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Beckman award for "Professors Who Inspire Social Change," Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg and Anna Davidson poetry prizes, and a Fulbright for nine-month study of adult Spanish language acquisition in Oaxaca Mexico, she is a regular international speaker whose recent engagements include a 2017 Richard Ruiz Fellowship in Guanajuato, Mexico and an invited plenary to the 2018 English Teachers Association of Israel. A graduate of the New England College low-residency MFA program and the University of Pennsylvania's Educational Linguistics doctoral program, her poems, essays, and articles about language learning have appeared in numerous literary and scholarly journals linked on her blog: http://teachersactup.com. She lives in Athens, GA with her husband and two children and their rescue dog, Bagel.

Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor (español)

Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor, es profesora de educación, lengua y alfabetización en la Universidad de Georgia. Es autora del poemario Imperfect Tense, (White Point Press, 2016 https://www.amazon.com/Imperfect-Tense-Melisa-Cahnmann-Taylor-ebook/dp/B01HPA9RBA), y varios libros de investigación en el campo de educación, entre ellos: Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010); Arts-Based Research in Education(Routledge, 2008; 2018), y Enlivening Language Education through Drama & Improv (con publicación en curso en Routledge). Es recipiente de cuatro becas de National Endowment for the Arts (NEA "Big Read"), El Premio Beckman para "Los profesores que inspiran cambios sociales". En poesía, ganó los Premios Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg y Anna Davidson, y una beca Fulbright de nueve meses, para investigar el tema del aprendizaje del español entre los adultos, en el estado de Oaxaca, México. Es oradora en materia de pedagogía y desarrollo de lenguajes artísticos y consultora en lingüística,. Desde el 2005, se ha desempeñado como editora de la revista Anthropology & Humanism, y ha servido como jueza del concurso anual de poesía etnográfica. Actualmente es embajadora Fulbright de los EE.UU. Es graduada del programa MFA Low-Residency del New England College, y del programa de doctorado en educación lingüística de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Sus poemas, ensayos y artículos sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas se encuentran en su blog: http://teachersactup.com. Vive en Athens, Georgia EEUU con su esposo, dos hijos y su perro rescate, Bagel.

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Who is your professor? / ¿Quién es su profesora? Email: cahnmann@uga.edu website: www.teachersactup.com MELISA "Misha" CAHNMANN-TAYLOR, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, is co-author of four scholarly books in education: Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (2010); two editions of Arts-Based Research in Education (2008; second edition, 2018) and Enlivening the Language Classroom with Drama and Improv.

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Black Males only make up 2% of the teaching population.  The conversations surrounding the need for black males in the classroom tends to be an ongoing one.  These songs will describe some of the experiences of the 2% and the many spaces that Black Male Teachers occupy.

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An Autoethnographic Experience of Mask-Wearing Through the Arts

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My second life presentation. Please download the PowerPoint for the presentation.

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This  is  my presentation entitled Between the Woods and the Green Desert. It is about a series of art interventions I made in the woods in Athens, in 2019 and 2020.

Love,

Paula

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4'33'' Paula Reynaldi "Between the Woods and the Green Desert"

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My name is Paula Reynaldi. I am an artist and a graduate student in education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. In 2019 and 2020 I made a series of interventions in the woods in Athens, Ga., in which I sought to slow down viewers' perception of natural space.

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This video offers a peek into the ways teacher candidates' work has inspired my arts-based inquiries and research in elementary teacher ed. Featuring vocal stylings of Tobias (my cat) and a mystery sports car.

Contact email: nicollette.frank@uga.edu

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Paula received honorable mention during the 4’33” Spotlight Awards Competition.

Excellent work, Paula!

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This video discuss Korean exam-oriented education.

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Healing the wounded soul from Korean exam-oriented education

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Here some of us are, celebrating for a first time face to face after months of zoom discussions. 2020 gives me a new appreciation of what is possible and desirable online and then this face to face meeting reminded me of what is so rich and wonderful when we are together--who will ever forget Sung-Eun's singing?! I am very proud of the growth we each made during the most trying of times in our region, state, and world. The arts are a balm and offer new ways of seeing. What a privilege to work with each of you to merge inquiry, theory and the arts.

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This video showcases my research at the intersection of social studies, art based inquiry, and earthen perspectives.
Contact: morgant@uga.edu

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4'33 Morgan Tate Photographic Inquiry of Shimmering, Earthen Social Studies

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This video showcases my research at the intersection of social studies, art based inquiry, and earthen perspectives.

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In this presentation, I talk about my research on integrating collaboration into the language classroom.
Contact me at: viviane@uga.edu

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Take 2: 4'33 - Viviane Alves Spotlight on the Arts

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Viviane Klen-Alves Ph.D. Candidate in TESOL and World Language Education Department of Language and Literacy Education

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Inspiring new ABER dissertation work.

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2020 arts-based research influences & inspirations:

Kuo Zhang, poetic and ethnographic inquiry on international student mothers.

Anna Tsing (2015) Mushroom at the End of the World: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins.  Princeton University Press.
& her talk on the Feral Atlas.

Video art addressing climate change by Cameron Sunde

New influence! The 2020 Torrance Lecture: FROM FIELD by Kyna Leski
see the art making explosion that takes place around minute 56/57 at the end of the talk.

“Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible”
The Creative Credo, Artist Paul Klee, 1879-1940

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UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education

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The 2020 Torrance Lecture: FROM FIELD by Kyna Leski

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Article: Poetry in TESOL Teacher Education: A Chinese's Teacher's Identity Negotiation and Reconstruction Before and During the Pandemic.
Fall 2020

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Morgan Tate

Department: Educational Theory and Practice: Social Studies Education.

Title: Photographic Inquiry of Shimmering, Earthen Social Studies

Nancy Ciudad-Simmons

Department: Language and Literacy Education. Specialization: TESOL and World Language Education

Title: My Second Life? Rebuilding my Identity... Understanding the Venezuelan Diaspora from a Former ESL Adult Education Student.

Paula Reynaldi

Department:  Art Education

Title: Between the woods and the Green Desert

Sung-Eun Yang

Department: Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy

Title: An Autoethnographic Experience of Mask-Wearing Through the Arts

Lemell Overton

Department: Language and Literacy Education. Specialization: English Education

Title: Longer Project - 2%

Sung-eun Min

Department: Educational Theory and Practice. Specialization: Critical Studies.

Title: Healing the wounded soul from Korean exam-oriented education

Nicollette Frank

Department:  Educational Theory and Practice

Title: Mapping Arts in Teacher Education

Katherine Johnson

Department: Language and Literacy Education. Specialization: English Education

Title: Call and Response poetry inspired by Cedar Shoals' students Zoom language

Viviane Klen Alves

Department: Language and Literacy Education. Specialization: TESOL and World Language Education.

Title: Integrating Telecollaboration into the Language Classroom

Yixuan Wang

Department: Language and Literacy Education. Specialization: TESOL and World Language Education.

Title: Longer Project (International students in the U.S during COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of precarity and visual journals)

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