ARTP Lab Overview
Current approaches to the teaching of literacy in English-dominant countries are not fit for purpose for a growing group of students. These approaches are often monolingual, monomodal, and assume high levels of linguistic competence in English. They fail to value the funds of knowledge and identity of minoritized students, taking a narrow view of language and meaning making.
The Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogy Lab seeks to disrupt these approaches, igniting the power of community knowledge and arts experiences to create an inclusive arts-rich translanguaging pedagogy (ARTP) for literacy and school engagement. This pedagogy aims to bring all students into a culture of reading and writing that relies on and nurtures their individual ways of knowing while providing access to school literacies.
Our work brings together families, teachers, artists, communities, and researchers as co-designers of an inclusive literacy pedagogy, which uses arts experiences as multimodal entry-points to literacy for all learners. Our grassroots projects aim to develop evidence-based principles for ARTP and highlight the vital role of the community in helping educators support all learners to use their whole knowledge repertoires in creating rich textual worlds.
The generation of principles for ARTP design has implications for pre-service teacher education, educational policy, and practice.
ARTP Lab People
Everyone has their own way of learning and making sense of the world. I’d like to help educators develop more understanding of the rich and interesting ways in which everyone can participate in learning.
A/Prof Julie Choi
Leading researcher of ARTP Lab
Arts-rich translanguaging pedagogies have the potential to enrich and enliven established approaches to literacy learning, engaging students and harnessing their multimodal and multilingual resources for meaning making.
Dr Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
Researcher of ARTP Lab
I’m interested in the pedagogical affordances of integrating Content (Arts) and Language to facilitate learners’ sense-making and meaning-making in their own learning process.
Dr Shu Ohki
Researcher of ARTP Lab
The power of the Arts as a teaching and learning tool for Languages cannot be overstated – it’s like a secret ingredient everyone needs to know about.
Dr Andrea Truckenbrodt
Researcher of ARTP Lab
I have grown so much confidence learning through arts-rich translanguaging pedagogies. It is in this space that I feel my multilingual knowledge is recognized and valued.
Melissa Slamet