Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change and transitions and new pathways. 26 b/w drawings.
Sheri R. Klein, MFA, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and scholar. Her research has focused on art, education, reflective practice and professional development. She has published widely in national and international journals and has edited, authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters and essays. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association and the recipient of numerous awards for her professional work. She teaches online at Kent State University and is the director of Braided Streams LLC.
Contact: sklein17@kent.edu or braidedstreams70@gmail.com
Kathy Marzilli Miraglia, EdD, MAE, BFA, is a Professor of Art Education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She was awarded the Kathy Connor’s Teaching award by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Women’s Caucus, the Massachusetts Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Council of the Massachusetts Art Education Association (MAEA), and the Outstanding Arts Educator Award from the Massachusetts Alliance for the Arts.
She is a published author of peer reviewed book chapters and journal articles, co-edited the book Inquiry in Action: Paradigms, Methodologies and Perspectives in Art Education Research, co-presented NAEA national webinars, and presented at national and international venues.
She served as Higher Education Eastern Division Director for NAEA, secretary on the board directors for the New England Educational Research Organization, reviewer for Art Education the Journal for NAEA, and as the Preservice Division representative to the NAEA Research Commission. She is a practising and exhibiting artist of paintings and pastels.