Moments, Movements, and Manifestation

Disrupting Neoliberal Ideologies through Documentation in Collaborative Arts Partnerships

Authors

• Geralyn Schroeder Yu University of New Mexico
• Juana Reyes Lewis University
• Teju Adesida Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Noé Cuéllar Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Mark Diaz Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Brandon Phouybanhdyt Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.156695

Keywords:

arts integration, documentation practices, neoliberal ideologies, narrative inquiry

Abstract

For over three decades, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) has challenged neoliberal approaches and classroom hierarchies through arts integration inquiry practices involving students, teachers, and teaching artists. The authors emphasize a two-year study of CoLab, a CAPE initiative that fosters new public-school partnerships. Using narrative inquiry, the researchers highlight the documentation practices described by CoLab teaching artists as they collaborate with teachers and students. The research results reveal how documentation in collaborative arts integration serves as a process of meaning-making, characterized by moments, movements, and manifestations that spread and grow, much like ripples in water after a stone’s disruption.