Paths to a “Toolbox for Social Change”—Interactions Between Art and Continuing Education in the Context of Critical Diversity Literacy

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.1.2.0058
• Pages: 58-71
• Published date: 01 December 2018
• Date: 01 December 2018
• Author: Ulla Klingovsky,Georges Pfründer
• Subject Matter: Critical Diversity Literacy,arts education,adult and further education,contact zones,social imagination

International Journal of CRITICAL DIVERSITY STUDIES 1.2 December 2018

Paths to a “Toolbox for Social

Change”—Interactions Between Art

and Continuing Education in the Context

of Critical Diversity Literacy

Ulla Klingovsky and Georges Pfründer

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern

Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland

Ulla Klingovsky is professor of Adult and Further Education at the School of Education

of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. She

also heads the focus studies of Adult and Further Education in the Master

Program of Educational Sciences at University of Basel. She represented the

professorship of Adult and Further Education at the Technical University

Darmstadt between 2011 and 2013 and at the Martin-Luther-University of

Halle-Wittenberg between 2014 and 1015. Her research focus is on philoso-

phy of education, instructional design, higher education teaching, diversity and

digital literacy. As a consultant, she participates in conferences, workshops, and

seminars and facilitates the development of change management strategies

around complex learning processes and learning environments within universi-

ties, companies and organisations.

Georges Pfründer since April 2015 is professor and chair of the Centre of Art

Education and Theatre Pedagogics in the School of Education of the University

of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (PH FHNW). Between

2009 and 2014, he headed the Wits School of Arts (WSOA) at the University

of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1996 to 2009, he directed

the Fine Arts Academy “Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais” (ECAV) in Switzerland,

where he initiated programmes such as MAPS (Master of Art in Public Sphere)

and the Research Centre CRIC (Centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contexts). As

an artist and researcher, he has participated in conferences, panels and residency

programs in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and is contributing to various research

initiatives which involve researchers from across Africa and Europe.

ABSTRACT

The aim of this article is to systematise some of the ndings that have emerged

in the context of an international research cooperation between the Wits Centre