Reflective documentation in arts education – Expanding ways of thinking through multimodal, embodied practices

Authors

• Eeva Anttila University of the Arts Helsinki
• Taneli Tuovinen University of the Arts Helsinki
• Liisa Jaakonaho University of the Arts Helsinki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.136528

Keywords:

reflective documentation, embodied reflection, art-pedagogy, artistic-pedagogical research, artistic research

Abstract

Purpose of this article is to describe the development of a pedagogical research approach entitled reflective documentation. Context for this inquiry is an Erasmus+ project entitled Pedagogy of Imaginative Dialogues (PIMDI). The practical examples are drawn from the PIMDI project. For fuller appreciation of the multimodal nature of reflective work and reflective documentation, we have created an exposition on Research Catalogue portal. As the outcome of this artistic pedagogical research project, we propose that reflective documentation can be seen in connection with artistic research and visual ethnography as an open-ended process, without the traditional requirement to show what really happened.