Designed for Empowerment: A Teacher’s Transformation
Date
2021-04-27Type of Work
71 pagesText
thesis
Program
Digital ArtsRights
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Subjects
design thinkinghuman-centered design
user experience design
UX design
educator advocacy
educator agency
teacher support
teacher stress
trauma response
personal narrative
community building
virtual community
processing crisis
identity
Abstract
An art educator finds herself in the throes of a professional crisis, a viral pandemic, and an identity
revelation while working through the last stages of earning graduate degrees in Digital Arts and Art
and Technology. Her thought processes as a teacher and a designer overlap as she seeks to find
creative solutions to address these challenges. She uses a design-thinking approach to develop a
virtual community of educators in order to find connection, support, agency, and ultimately a new
meaning in the fields of education and design. Using personal narrative paired with excerpts from
relevant sources, this is a work of reflection on a journey of rebuilding oneself while building
something new.
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