How do we work with research within our educational programs? Which methods do we need and use? And what does this mean for BA and MA students?

In the podcast series Research in Art Education, Fabiola Camuti interviews students, researchers, teachers, and managers working in university of the arts to discuss the importance, challenges, and possibilities of conducting research within arts academies.

The KUO (national art education sector) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 identifies ‘research’ as one of the three key areas art universities should focus on in the coming years. Research is essential not only to the arts and professional art education, but also to our relationship with the world and society. Research already takes on an important role within universities of the arts, however, practices and ideas on the role, methods, ways of conducting research and its embedment within each and every institution, still leave space for further development, investigation, and actions to be taken.

For this reason, starting 2022, a national ‘Research in Education working group’ works together to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and the research culture within our academies. This podcast series is connected to the events organized by the working group around the question: how can we make research sustainable in our academies? The podcast is sponsored by the Vereniging Hogescholen and hosted by Radio ArtEZ for Studium Generale.

The second episode of the series, titled, The Circle of Doing Research: a tool for art students, addresses the possibilities and mechanisms of this model, created by teachers-researchers of the Research Station of the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), with and for the educational departments.

Joining the conversation are the developers of the circle, Miriam Rasch, philosopher, writer, and coordinator of the Research Station at the WdKA, Jojanneke Gijsen, researcher, art historian, and art educational developer, and Harma Staal, graphic designer and educational developer.

The Circle of Doing Research

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmastaal

https://www.wdka.nl/stories/zoom-in-fifteen-film-portraits-of-graduates-2020-2021

https://www.wdka.nl/research/the-circle-of-doing-research#:~:text=With%20these%20questions%20the%20Willem,and%20to%20reflect%20on%20research.

https://www.miriamrasch.nl/