Me and My Teddy Bear: Students’ Online Production Intersects with Art Learning

Abstract

This article examines issues in contemporary art teaching in relation to the current tensions and contradictions experienced in public life. Young people's participatory creative practices on social media are examined in high school art classes as instances of practice-based learning. A project-driven unit and a school art event are described and discussed within the context of the practicebased learning taking place in the Art High School in Thessaloniki. A mode of video production, inspired by a student's unsolicited video production on an 1155 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Peer-reviewed | Full paper Instagram account, together with other images and in-class art productions, constituted the studio-learning product and the exhibition items for a school event dedicated to the Declaration of Human Rights Day. The purpose of this study is to open a dialogue about new spaces for participation and creation in art education where in-class art production, a school event, and students' out-of-school creative practices intersect.