”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”

This study investigates the potential to encompass questions about transgender and gender fluid identity in the school subject visual art in compulsory school years 7-9. A qualitative semi-structured focus group interview was made with five visual art teachers who discuss visual art in relation to...

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Main Author: Katarina Jansson Hydén
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Language:Danish
Published: Malmö University Press 2023-12-01
Series:Educare
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Online Access:https://publicera.kb.se/educare/article/view/45614
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description This study investigates the potential to encompass questions about transgender and gender fluid identity in the school subject visual art in compulsory school years 7-9. A qualitative semi-structured focus group interview was made with five visual art teachers who discuss visual art in relation to its potential to support personal development, exploration of identity and gender orientation in art education. The article discusses in what way visual art as a school subject can function as communicative support for pupils with gender fluid identity and in what way transgender individuals and individuals with gender fluid identity can be included in the art education in school. The results show that the visual art teachers believe that the subject visual art is a significant tool for pupils in communicating an inner dialogue with an external world. The results also show that multimodal methods give pupils the opportunity to be exploratory and uncertain as well as support them in communicating what is unsaid and unwritten when exploring ongoing changes in gender identity. Visual arts can thus be a forum for pupils to talk about questions concerning transgender and gender fluid identification and serve as a democratic tool to counteract exclusion.
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spelling doaj-art-ccafdba3735d4bdca7540cfa2c96c7022025-08-20T02:06:24ZdanMalmö University PressEducare2004-51902023-12-01210.24834/educare.2023.2.922”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!” Katarina Jansson Hydén0https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2598-2939Göteborgs universitet This study investigates the potential to encompass questions about transgender and gender fluid identity in the school subject visual art in compulsory school years 7-9. A qualitative semi-structured focus group interview was made with five visual art teachers who discuss visual art in relation to its potential to support personal development, exploration of identity and gender orientation in art education. The article discusses in what way visual art as a school subject can function as communicative support for pupils with gender fluid identity and in what way transgender individuals and individuals with gender fluid identity can be included in the art education in school. The results show that the visual art teachers believe that the subject visual art is a significant tool for pupils in communicating an inner dialogue with an external world. The results also show that multimodal methods give pupils the opportunity to be exploratory and uncertain as well as support them in communicating what is unsaid and unwritten when exploring ongoing changes in gender identity. Visual arts can thus be a forum for pupils to talk about questions concerning transgender and gender fluid identification and serve as a democratic tool to counteract exclusion. https://publicera.kb.se/educare/article/view/45614art education compulsory schoolgender fluid identityinclusionvisual art
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”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”
Educare
art education
compulsory school
gender fluid identity
inclusion
visual art
title ”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”
title_full ”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”
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title_full_unstemmed ”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”
title_short ”Vi får lära oss helt nya sätt att tänka nu!”
title_sort vi far lara oss helt nya satt att tanka nu
topic art education
compulsory school
gender fluid identity
inclusion
visual art
url https://publicera.kb.se/educare/article/view/45614
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