Vision
VisionArt, and education in arts, provides new ways of thinking and acting that can help in dealing with today's complex world and the unknown world of the future. Dealing with the 'other' and 'the unknown' is a speciality of the artisteducator. With imagination and creativity as allies, artisteducators feel at home at the forefront of a rapidly changing, complex and diverse society, one that demands experimentation, critical reflection and innovative ways of communicating and problem-solving.
Interdisciplinary learning community
The curriculum of the master’s course Education in Arts is interdisciplinary. That means that are part of an artistic learning community that encompasses a richt variety of backgrounds, expertises and disciplines. Your point of departure within the course is your personal research question. The curriculum is based on the learning objectives of the whole group. As an artisteducator, you have one foot in the future and are engaged in pushing back the boundaries between disciplines, systems and research methods.
I always enjoy exchanging ideas with students, friends, family and colleagues. What are their experiences, how do they view the subject? It's too easy to stay in your own 'bubble', you won't learn anything from that."
Theory and practice: a golden combination
The Education in Arts master’s course sees theory and practice as interrelated. A central concept in this regard is praxis. This means that, with the theoretical knowledge you acquire, you situate your position in practice and substantiate your role as an art educator, and vice versa. At the intersection of theory and practice, you formulate your personal vision, continuously refining and sharpening your viewpoints.
Permanent process of talking, making, writing and creating
During the master’s course Education in Arts, you will enter into a constant dialogue with yourself and with others: visions are not set-in stone as we recognise that there is no single correct answer to any problem or question. In an ongoing process, you will define your position: by continuously reflecting on your own actions, by making, doing and investigating. By expressing yourself and by finding the right words to do so through trial and error. Little by little, and ever more powerfully, you will shape your position, argue why you stand where you stand, why you do what you do.