No. 1 (2023): The notion of didactics in arts education
The theme of this first issue of Journal of Research in Arts Education - Journal de recherche en éducations artistiques focuses on the notion of didactics in arts education. This notion has different meanings and applications depending on the country, the discipline and the teaching-learning situation. For some, the notion of didactics is an implementation of teaching know-how. For others, it is a form of training design, or an object of research on teaching-learning processes. What are the discourses, discussions and controversies that coexist at an international level in the different artistic disciplines? On what epistemological and methodological bases are these differences or similarities founded? What paradigms run through this notion of didactics?
In the field of didactic research, we wish to confront points of view around people’s development through teaching or learning in arts education. We invite researchers, professors/associate professors, teacher-trainers and artist-teachers to explain the foundations and characteristics of the notion of didactics in their discipline.
In this first JRAE/JREA issue seven articles are published: five in French and two in English. Each of these seven articles has been co-authored by at least two researchers, most of them coming from different university art education institutions from the same or from different countries (Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland) in order to cross-reference concepts of didactics in music, visual arts, applied arts/design, dance and theatre teaching at an international level.
