Designed for Empowerment: A Teacher’s Transformation

No Thumbnail Available

Links to Files

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1geny7ak-7qTGu-u_qphYsHx1EdZT7t7S/view?usp=sharing

Permanent Link

http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21455

Collections

Goucher College Digital Arts

Author/Creator

Author/Creator ORCID

Date

2021-04-27

Type of Work

thesis
Text

Department

Program

Digital Arts

Citation of Original Publication

Rights

This work may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

Subjects

design thinking
human-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.