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The Discursive Formation of An Art History Survey Classroom

Kundu, Rina
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211958271

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
This is a study taken of a survey class and how the discourses in which it is imbedded privilege ways in which the classroom constructs knowledge about art, culture, and difference. The concept of discourse as developed within poststructuralist theory has become central to my investigation as I search to develop a critical understanding of how art history teaching facilitates meaning making. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, discourse can be understood as a structure through which knowledge produces activity. Specifically, I seek to reveal the discursive practices that structure teaching and how such practices frame ways in which we participate in the world. By focusing on one art history course, in the midst of education reform, I examine the environment of the classroom, the discursive practices of art history, and how its educators stage signification and deploy relations of power through their choices and actions, and construct and embody values through their framings. My intention is to question the hierarchies of knowledge at work in the ways in which we see and understand art, culture, and difference in this environment, and how these understandings have relevance to wider cultural experiences. Findings included humanistic and counter-humanistic discourses that structured the classroom.
Vesta Daniel, Ed.D. (Advisor)
Sydney Walker, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jacqueline Chanda, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Terry Barrett, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
205 p.
Art Education; Art History
art; art history; art education; discourse; humanism

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  • Kundu, R. (2008). The Discursive Formation of An Art History Survey Classroom [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211958271

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kundu, Rina. The Discursive Formation of An Art History Survey Classroom. 2008. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211958271.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kundu, Rina. "The Discursive Formation of An Art History Survey Classroom." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211958271

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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