Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik : Images of Imagination - an aesthetic approach ti education

Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik has revealed in Images of Imagination - an aesthetic approach to education how art and pedagogy create dialogical learning spaces in education. The dialogue is based on relational concepts and rhizomatic formations and promoted by art based learning practice. As an artist-researcher-teacher, Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik has documented a fascinating arts educational journey, which she has undertaken together with students, teachers and co-researchers.

Liora Bresler applauds the inclusion of various contexts in the research theme and she recognises that the story ob bread in its particular educational and bi-lingual context, with its unique background and circumstances, is a compelling research topic. Helene Illeris acknowledges that the thesis, in significant ways, contributes to the aesthetic research field through its very sensitive accounts of the researcher's extensive 'voyage' into the field of educational practices.

This hallmark inquiry into arts, education, cultural heritage, literacy and transformation represents an articulation of concepts central to art practice situated in education. Thus the study maps some of the territory that artists, art educators and others interested in art education need to know when they wish to understand an aesthetic approach to education. Artists, art educators and teachers, and also surely those aspiring to use imagination as a catalyst for learning, now have access to this knowledge.