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Participatory Action Research with Chinese-American Families: Developing Digital Prototypes of Chinese Art Education Resources

Wang, Yinghua
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385092278

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
This study explores a collaborative and co-learning process with three Chinese-American families living in the Bay Area, California. These families and the researcher worked together toward creating an interactive website that sought to make learning Chinese art and culture fun and meaningful for Chinese-American children. The families were involved in the design process and discussed how Chinese children’s identity is shaped by their family cultures and educational experiences. The participants discussed how children learn about Chinese art and culture, the kinds of Chinese art they can learn from their communities, and how they might appreciate and talk about Chinese art. The participants also reviewed the interactive and educational websites the children used, discussed the usability, visual design, interactivity, and educational features of the website, and iterated and finalized the paper prototypes of the website. This participatory process is expected to encourage mutual understanding between the parents and the children, incorporate children’s needs and voices into the educational website design, and finally inspire changes in their future lives. The study examines the theories of multicultural art education, and how they are related to the participatory action research methodology. It also looks at how the research is connected to the Chinese-American community, and why the study uses Chinese traditional art as the main content of the participatory process. This study explores the technological perspective of the research, which includes a discussion of the theoretical support for using interactive technology in education, current practices in art education, an analysis of usability and user-centered design process, and a review of a list of educational websites. This study could be read as a step-by-step account of how to collaborate with the minority groups to build socially and culturally sustainable developments. Instead of studying on people, this study chose to collaborate with the participants to figure out problems, finding solutions, and thus inspire changes to their lives. Working with the participants encouraged them to actively engage into the process that can accomplish a set of goals, benefit their lives, and create a better foundation for future action. I believe this study provided a foundation and an example for those researchers and organizations that want to conduct PAR studies in minority communities.
Jennifer Eisenhauer (Advisor)
Deborah Smith-Shank (Committee Co-Chair)
Karen Hutzel (Committee Member)
Clayton Funk (Committee Member)
437 p.
Art Education; Asian American Studies; Design
Art Education, Interactive Technology, Chinese Art, Chinese-American, Multicultural Education, Critical Pedagogy, Participatory Action Research, User-Centered Design, Make Session, Website Design

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  • Wang, Y. (2013). Participatory Action Research with Chinese-American Families: Developing Digital Prototypes of Chinese Art Education Resources [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385092278

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wang, Yinghua. Participatory Action Research with Chinese-American Families: Developing Digital Prototypes of Chinese Art Education Resources . 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385092278.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wang, Yinghua. "Participatory Action Research with Chinese-American Families: Developing Digital Prototypes of Chinese Art Education Resources ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385092278

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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