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Visual ethnography in three preschools in Kuwait (Middle East)
Visual ethnography in 3 preschools in Kuwait (Middle East)
Description
To understand the visual culture and art education practices within three ideologically distinct kindergartens, I employed an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing tools from the fields of art, education, anthropology, literary theory, visual studies and critical social theory. Each of the three schools was considered to be the "best" of its kind for the community in which it resided; TBS was the original bilingual school, and the most Westernized. It was set in the heart of a major city. The second school, OBS, operated from an Islamic framework located in an under-developed small transitioning suburb; and the last school, NBS, was situated in Al-Jahra, an "outlying area" populated by those labeled as bedouins (Longva, 2006). The participants' attitudes towards art education unfolded as I analyzed my visual observations of the participants' daily practices. I have produced a counter-hegemonic visual narrative by negotiating my many subjectivities and methods to gain new knowledge and insights. This approach has provided a holistic understanding of the environment in each site, in which attitudes and practices relating to art education have been acquired by the community. Operating from three different educational paradigms, each school applied a different approach to art education. The more Westernized school viewed art as an individual act which promoted creativity and expression. In the Islamic school art was viewed as an activity that required patterning (Stokrocki, 1986), and that the child needed to be guided and exposed to the appropriate images to follow. In the bedouin school, drawing activities were viewed as an opportunity for representing one's individual story as well as a skill for emergent literacy.
Date Created
2012
Contributors
- Al-Bader, Jawaher Khaled (Author)
- Young, Bernard (Thesis advisor)
- Margolis, Eric (Committee member)
- Tobin, Joseph (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Genre
Extent
viii, 194 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15966
Statement of Responsibility
Jawaher Khaled Al-Bader
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Viewed on Feb. 9, 2015
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full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2012
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-193)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Curriculum and instruction
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