Den ofria viljan - En autoetnografisk studie om konstnärligt kunskapande och rum för blivanden

Abstract

The objective of this autoethnographic study is to formulate didactic approaches where space for the learners own thoughts and actions can be created. The study aims at increasing the understanding of the potential effect of arts in the knowledgeproducing process. A social constructionistic theory was applied in order to reveal accustomed structures to facilitate change. And in the instances the social contructionistic theory proved unsufficient, e.g. in connection to the relational reasonings, I was inspired by a post-constructionist perspective since the relational dimension includes all living creatures and all the materiality that they are surrounded by and where all these part represent active agents in different intra-active actions. The autoethnographic method is a narrative method and it's represented by two memory reconstructions from artistic and explorative works that were done with a group of youths within a project. The autoethnographic narratives were then examined through two artistic performative actions with an auto-affective method. Parts of free flow writings conducted shortly after the performances have been used in the study as a auto-affective narrative. These parts reveal structures and areas where the didactics could be advanced in relation to the objective of the study. Via theories about will, becoming, spatiality, art, thinking and knowledge production the study proposes a shift from a focus on methods to the teachers didactic position and presents an example on how this could be achieved. The study also clarifies the possibility of arts to have an impact in the society and in the knowledge-producing process. Based on these parts a didactic position which promotes the learners thinking and actions has been hammered out.