Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2018 - EDUC 904 G032

Fieldwork III (5)

Class Number: 6951

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Location: TBA

Description

COURSE DETAILS:

Meeting Day/Times:
Saturdays, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Meeting Dates:
Apr 28, May 5, 12, 26, Jun 2*, 9, 16, and 23rd

Meeting Location:
SFU Vancouver Woodward Building, 149 West Hastings Street
Rooms:  Dance Studio II: Room 4750, *Dance Studio: Room 4650

Course Description:
This course introduces the philosophy and practice of community-engaged arts projects with a particular focus on applied experience, documentation, evaluation, and knowledge representation. Scheduled towards the end of the two-year MEd program, it aims both to integrate previous learning with students' lived understanding of their educational/community arts practice, and to encourage and support students' ongoing professional growth after the program ends. As a central part of the course, each student will participate in and report on a practicum in an arts or educational setting of their choosing. Early classes will focus on the pedagogical and practical of field documentation and reporting, with emphasis on writing, knowledge dissemination, while later ones will consider broader philosophical and scholarly issues and assist students in the interpretation and communication of their experience.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

  • Apply arts based inquiry as a research methodology
  • Further develop theoretical understandings as an aid to individual practices and to enhancing understanding of the field of arts for social change and community-engaged arts
  • Refining writing, reporting, and presentation skills
  • Reflect on learning in field assignments
  • Learn how to write and present reports from field assignments

Grading

  • Participation in ongoing class discussion, dialogue, and warm-ups 25%
  • Presentations on internships: due June 2, 2018 25%
  • Report on internships: due June 9, 2018 25%
  • Theory conversation 25%

NOTES:

The School expects that the grades awarded in this course will bear some reasonable relation to established university-wide practices with respect to both levels and distribution of grades. In addition, the School will follow Policy S10.01 with respect to Academic Integrity, and Policies S10.02, S10.03 and S10.04 as regards Student Discipline.

[Note: as of May 1, 2009 the previous T10 series of policies covering Intellectual Honesty (T10.02), and Academic Discipline (T10.03) have been replaced with the new S10 series of policies.]

REQUIREMENTS:

All assignments must be received by the deadlines and submitted to both instructors.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Little, E., (2017) People first and first peoples. In E. Miller, E. Little, & S. High (Eds.), Going Public: The art of participatory practice (pp.141-176). Vancouver, B.C. UBC Press.
ISBN 978-0-7748-3664-7 (PDF)
ISBN 978-0-7748-3666-1 (Kindle)
ISBN: 978-0-7748-3662-3

Tiller: The Power of Putting Theory into Practice: 

https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/power-putting-theory-practice. 

Tiller: Power Up:

http://www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk/sites/default/files/Power_Up_think_piece_Chrissie_Tiller.pdf.

Jennifer Spiegel: Theoretical Debates Concerning Community Engaged Art: An overview in selected quotes and critiques 

https://www.icasc.ca/resources/theoretical-debates-concerning-community-engaged-art.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Lawrence, Randee L., (2016) The Strands and the Braid. In Butterwick, S & Roy, C. (Eds.), Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning; The power of arts-making in finding voice and creating conditions for seeing and hearing. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

ISBN 978-94-6300-183-1 (e-book)
ISBN: 978-94-6300-481-7

Additional readings will be posted on the course Canvas site.

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS