Author: Benjamin Jörissen
-
Arts & Cultural Education – a Chinese Experience
Recently I had the honour to lead a German delegation of scientists, practitioners and administrators of cultural education within the framework of a Chinese-German exchange forum. This forum, hosted by the ifa, the Stiftung Mercator and the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation was actually the third in a row, the first one being dedicated to…
-
Our latest Conference: Interpretational Practices in the Postcolonial Era: Transcultural Perspectives in Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
I was really excited about this conference hosted by my UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education, which brought together scholars from so many countries. The conference built upon the achievements of the Exploring Visual Cultures Project (https://www.explore-vc.org/en/), which is at the same time an archive on die diversity of visual cultures and a…
-
“Arts Education in and through a Time of Crisis”
The 4th Conference of our UNESCO UNITWIN “Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development” just took place, and, due to being held as a hybrid conference due to covid, has all sessions taped and published on Youtube. The conference covered a broad range of issues connected to diversity, vulnerability, and resilience in relation…
-
Territories of Theory: Post-Colonial Irritations of my Theoretical Practice
German version published as: Jörissen, B. (2019). Territorien der Theorie: Post-koloniale Irritationen meiner bildungstheoretischen Praxis. In U. Stadler-Altmann & B. Gross (Eds.), Beyond erziehungswissenschaftlicher Grenzen. Diskurse zu Entgrenzungen der Disziplin. (pp. 57–62). Opladen: Barbara Budrich. Translated using deepl.com, with a few manual corrections. Get a PDF (german preprint & english version) on the Downloads Page.…
-
Internationalization of our Master Programme’s Profile in “Culture and Aesthetic Education”/Internationalisierung unseres Masterstudiengangsprofils “Kultur und ästhetische Bildung”/
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] The study profile “Culture and Aesthetic Education” in the Erlangen Master’s Programme in Pedagogy will be further developed in the coming winter semester. The focus is on internationalisation and UNESCO-related topics. In 2017 we started the first international module seminar “UNESCO-related perspectives of arts and culture in education” with great success. Our…
-
Das Jahr zur Digitalisierung im Rat für Kulturelle Bildung
Dieser Frage widmet sich der Rat für Kulturelle Bildung seit einem Jahr. Nun stehen einige Ergebnisse an: 1) Denkschrift: ALLES IMMER SMART Ein Jahr voller intensiver Debatten, Kontroversen und Einsichten, ein Jahr der Zusammenarbeit mit enorm inspirierenden Menschen im Rat. Die Denkschrift fokussiert im ersten Teil stark auf Schule. Dies war eine Entscheidung angesichts der…
-
Aesthetics of Transformation. Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability
[tpsingle key=”jorissen_aesthetics_2019″]
-
New publication: “Spectra of Transformation: Arts Education Research and Cultural Dynamics”
“Spectra of Transformation: Arts Education Research and Cultural Dynamics” … is the first english publication (of several others currently in preparation) of the team of my chair. The volume represents the outcome of the same-named winter school we conducted in 2017, providing theoretical perspectives of transformational processes in a first section and selected presentaitons of…