Art from Home to School: Towards a Critical Art Education Curriculum Framework in Postcolonial and Globalisation Contexts for Primary School Level in Uganda

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School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Doctoral thesis (monograph) | Defence date: 2022-11-03
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2022

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Taiteen ja median laitos
Department of Art and Media

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en

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270

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Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL THESES, 132/2022

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Art from Home to School is an investigation, which examined various aspects to transform the school curriculum, restore a stronger sense of historical cultural awareness; promote tolerance and cultural diversity through art education at primary school level in Uganda. Art from Home to School argues against censored cultural heritage; earmarked as indigenous art and mother tongue use in primary schools of Uganda. It provides an inquiry into colonial and postcolonial educational policies that promote a Euro centered school curriculum that stresses rote learning, encourages school violence through corporal punishment and ultimately that may result in physical abuse, along with dropping out of school. Further, Art from Home to School attends to other antagonisms in the society and school where the student persists; which cause socioeconomic inequalities and exploitation by reason of globalisation in education. It builds its knowledge base on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed to transform teaching and learning focused on social change. In it, ethnographic research was used to review art works produced by students as resistance to previously silenced voices and obtained results were used to plan a hypothetical critical curriculum of art education suggesting a captured vision of decolonising reforms.

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Tavin, Kevin, Dr., Aalto University, Department of Art and Media, Finland

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art education, cultural diversity, curriculum planning, Uganda, ethnographic research

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https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-0945-0

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