Zines as Reflective Evaluation Within Interdisciplinary Learning Programmes

Autor: Autumn Brown, Mairéad Hurley, Sophie Perry, Joseph Roche
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Education, Vol 6 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-284X
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2021.675329
Popis: This paper presents a unique method for documenting and reflecting learning in interdisciplinary science learning settings, which prioritises the perspectives of marginalised learners and which may be used across cultural contexts. Short for “magazine” or “fanzine,” zines are small DIY booklets which can contain poetry, narrative, drawings, comics, collage and more. Often associated with radical or alternative cultures, they can become a kind of self-made soapbox for the creator, a material artifact that, by its very deconstructed and deconstructing nature, encourages a personalised remixing of ideas. Within this paper, we examine the practical and pedagogical positioning of zines within a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) context. As both a visual and text-based artifact, a zine is uniquely capable of capturing broad responses to diverse learning experiences which blur disciplinary boundaries and offers an inclusive and firmly emancipatory approach to reflective practice.
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