Boyd White

• Doctor of Philosophy in Art education Concordia University Canada
• Professor (Associate) at McGill University

Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with one another across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry-poetry with images on Instagram-...

In 2020–2021, most of us in academia experienced abrupt changes in teaching and learning—higher workloads and new working conditions bound by remote and spatial settings that affected learning in complex ways. In particular, this disposition viscerally impacted how teachers conveyed content knowledge and attended to students’ perceived needs. This...

Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse réflexive et théorique de l’utilisation d’Instagram comme catalyseur à la production de textes poétiques au secondaire, à l’issue d’un projet de recherche subventionné par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Nous nous penchons sur l’utilisation de la plateforme Instagram, en particu...

Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse réflexive et théorique de l’utilisation d’Instagram comme catalyseur à la production de textes poétiques au secondaire, à l’issue d’un projet de recherche subventionné par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Nous nous penchons sur l’utilisation de la plateforme Instagram, en particu...

This article takes its direction from notable educators such as John Dewey and Elliot Eisner who argue in favour of endorsing uncertainty and related responses within educational practice. The argument is a push-back against current emphasis on standardization, with its accompanying focus on single right answers that don’t do justice to the complex...

In this chapter we invite reader reflections on walking as a private, yet relational artful practice that may foster public educational change and growth. Although we teach and practice our walking routines in different cities (Amélie Lemieux in Halifax and Boyd White in Montreal) we take mutual inspiration from land artist Richard Long. Long’s art...

Ma is a curriculum. The Japanese concept of ma refers to the interval between two markers. Ma is somatically constructed by a deliberate, attentive consciousness to what simultaneously is expressed, repressed, or suppressed between two structures. In a dialectic exploration, the spaces between― private/public, teacher/student, old/new, self/other,...

This three-authored paper describes our individual responses to a video, Dwelling, by Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa. The nine-minute video is a wordless, but not soundless, presentation of jet planes flying within the confines of the artist’s apartment. We chose the Youtube video in order to be able to share an artwork although we were working in thr...

This article describes a research project that investigated the development of pre-service teacher identity, with an emphasis meaning-making and articulation of personal values. The methodology is primarily arts-based. Data for the research consisted of: (1) participant-created three-dimensional constructions that symbolized their emerging values a...

Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his university-level students were experiencing as they...

In this article we introduce a research strategy that involves the making of visual maps by individuals in response to their interactions with artworks. The maps record the meaning‐making processes involved in the encounters and provide us with permanent records of otherwise ephemeral experiences. The case study presented here provides data for com...

This study introduces one approach to arts-based research, one that emerges from aesthetic encounters and ensuing art criticism. Examples are drawn from one preservice teacher’s attempts to write art criticism, both discursive and evocative, based on her personal responses to a chosen artwork. The articulation of her responses is a form of research...

A strategy for heightening university students' awareness within aesthetic encounters is described. The strategy, called aesthetigrams, is the focus of on going qualitative research, the purpose of which is to improve teaching and learning in regard to aesthetics-in-the-classroom. A more long-term research goal is discussed briefly. It addresses th...