Background and Expertise
About
A former K-12 art teacher, Dr. Brooke Hofsess explores the inquisitive and entangled practices of artmaking, teaching and research within the field of art education. Hofsess studies, using qualitative research methods, the issues affecting teacher preparation and how educational policy affects the classroom. Her approach to research is informed by her own creative practices of papermaking, book arts, and letterpress printing. Hofsess has founded a community arts program for emerging women artists, taught outreach programs for arts organizations and presented her research nationally and internationally. She is the author of “Unfolding Afterglow: Letters and Conversations on Teacher Renewal.”
Areas of expertise
- Why art matters in schools and why human creativity is important
- Teacher preparation
- Professional learning for educators (art and general classroom practitioners)
- Arts-based educational research methods
- Arts-based community outreach and service-learning
Education/Academic qualification
Art and Art Education, M.A., Columbia University
Art Education, Ph.D., University of Georgia
art, B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
- Why art matters
- Why creativity is important
- Teacher preparation
- Professional learning for educators
- Arts-based educational research methods
- Arts-based community outreach and service learning
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
- Education
- Art Education
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Reconceptualizing Early Career Teacher Mentoring as Reggio-Inspired: Insights from Collaborative Research with Art Teachers
Hanawalt, C. & Hofsess, B., Jan 1 2023, Taylor and Francis. 184 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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mesh/work im/possibilities and inbetweening
Hofsess, B. A. & Osgood, J., Dec 1 2022, In: Visual Arts Research. 48, 2, p. 18-27 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Renewing a Craftsmanship of Attention With the World
Hofsess, B. A., 2021, In: Studies in Art Education. 62, 2, p. 184-190 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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A Prelude—Unsettling Traditions: Reimagining the Craft of Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Inquiry
Vagle, M. D., Thiel, J. J. & Hofsess, B. A., Jun 1 2020, In: Qualitative Inquiry. 26, 5, p. 427-431 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Digressive Methodologies: Inviting the Aesthetic and Material Into the Phenomenological
Thiel, J. J. & Hofsess, B. A., Jun 1 2020, In: Qualitative Inquiry. 26, 5, p. 491-499 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review