Art Education and COIL: Creating a Transnational Commons between Japan and Canada

What is it about?

We share how and why COIL projects - collaborative, online, international learning - in visual art education offer a distinct mode of exchange for teaching and learning. We bring together graduate students from our home universities of Hiroshima and Concordia, located in Japan and Canada, respectively, to share their thoughts on diversifying learning contexts. What began as a response to the pandemic has evolved to become an emerging transnational commons, which we continue to develop as an alternate form of coming to know with our diverse scholarly cultures.

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Why is it important?

Such real-time global approaches to teamwork are somewhat unconventional in higher education, given different institutional structures, time zones, languages, and more, yet in our experience, these challenges serve as an invitation to rethink, remake, and reimagine art education as an expression of collectively creating knowledge together when forming a virtual community of practice.

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