ABSTRACT

This paper discusses a doctoral level epistemology course in social work, the course design and the arts-based methods used to help students conceptualize and transform their ideas around epistemology, research, and practice. The paper also includes students’ first hand accounts of their art-making experiences in the class, their learning process and epistemological reasoning. The students provide narratives illustrating their struggles and evolution in their epistemological positioning and how the teaching methods and art-making helped them in their learning process. The paper ends summarizing a typology of “artful values” infused in the course and uses the students’ experiences to capture epistemological education as an evolving artful process.

摘要

本文讨论了社会工作领域的博士级认识论课程，课程设计和基于艺术的方法，这些方法可帮助学生围绕认识论，研究和实践进行概念化和思想转变。该论文还包括学生对他们在课堂上的艺术创作经验，他们的学习过程和认识论推理的第一手资料。学生提供叙述，以说明他们在认识论立场上的挣扎和发展，以及教学方法和艺术创作如何在学习过程中帮助他们。本文最后总结了课程中注入的“艺术价值”的类型学，并利用学生的经验将认识论教育视为一个不断发展的艺术过程。