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Young Children’s Playful Artmaking: An Ontological Direction for Art Education

Kaplan, Heather Grace
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6481-620X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468977542

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
This dissertation is a study and philosophical investigation of new materialist notions of agency, being, and becoming in young children’s playful artmaking. Traditional representative epistemologies of play and artmaking are considered and critiqued in order address the removal of art making from education, art education, and early childhood education. New materialist understandings of relational, intra-active knowing and being are addressed in order to reclaim artmaking’s pedagogical possibility. In this study I utilize a new materialist and ontological framework in order to examine and compare the philosophical work of Martin Heidegger and feminist theory of Karen Barad. Here, notions of subjectivity, agency, and relational being and becoming are examined in order to situate the material in play and artmaking. These new materialist notions are discussed in relation to the notion of play, as understood by selected western continental philosophers and theorists, and artmaking, as understood within the fields of art education and early childhood education. Finally, this study positions material, situated ethnographic and video data against reading theory in order to create a space where post-qualitative data methods align to address theoretical concerns of the new materialist turn. Multiple data collection methods and diffractive approaches of analysis, such as reading the data through other data and through theory, were used in order to complicate humanist, interpretivist methods.
Sydney Walker (Advisor)
301 p.
Art Education
artmaking; young children; new materialism; onto-epistemology; play; agency

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  • Kaplan, H. G. (2016). Young Children’s Playful Artmaking: An Ontological Direction for Art Education [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468977542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kaplan, Heather. Young Children’s Playful Artmaking: An Ontological Direction for Art Education. 2016. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468977542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kaplan, Heather. "Young Children’s Playful Artmaking: An Ontological Direction for Art Education." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468977542

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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