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Mapping as MetaphorAn Art Based Research Project

by Caren E. Andrews

ACOE’s ILSP Program - Course B: Assessment

I started with Apples...

Concept Map #1: Apple as Metaphor

Concept Map #2: Apple

Concept Map #3: ABR

Source Materials:Rebecca SolnitManuel Lima Anne West~Map as ArtCartographyHistoric MapsTransit MapsRoad MapsHuman MapsSFFS Student Work

Concept Map #4: Juicy Question

By following a research trail informed by ideas about assessment, ABR, reflection and questioning, I asked a third grade student to take 10 minutes to look at my notebook. Audrey wrote her response to:

~ What do you see?

~ What do you think my book needs?

Audrey’s written

response.

Audrey working on her “My Little World” Project.

Concept Map #5: “Fire Power”

Thinking about thinking....

Words:

ListedWrittenFoundDrawn

Intended vs. Unintended:Inviting serendipity in.

“I wanted to marry what we found in the maps with the tide pool project I crafted in first grade. Remember? I made that jelly fish with all the string tentacles? The map lines remind me those jellyfish tentacles.”

~Talia, 4th grade

“I just remembered how I used glue to draw with last year, so I grabbed some to add texture. What happened with the color was a total surprise. I guess I had what you always call a happy accident!”

~Nate, 4th grade

Audrey’s resolved “My Little World Project” exploring a visible, exterior, world and a hidden, interior, world.

Mapping thinking, processing, learning, teaching, stretching, feeling, understanding...

Artist Statement

fin(ish)...