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Journals (Refereed)

 

2023

LeBlanc, N., Davidson, S., Ryu, J. Y., & Irwin, R. L. (in press). Becoming through a/r/tography, autobiography, and stories in motion. International Journal of Education through Art. Reprinted for the 20th-anniversary special issue from LeBlanc, N., Davidson, S., Ryu, J. Y., & Irwin, R. L. (2015). ‘Becoming through a/r/tography, autobiography and stories in motion.’ International Journal of Education through Art, 11(3), 355-374.

Rallis, N., Leddy, S., & Irwin, R. L. (2023). Relational ethics through the flesh: Considerations for an anti-colonial future in art education. Qualitative Inquiry. DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176091

2022

Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K., Coleman, K., Hayden, R. Healy, S., Irwin, R. L., Jellis, J., Jukes, J., Khan, S., Marotta, S., Seitz, D., Snepvangers, K., Staples, A., Turner, C., Tse, J., Watson, M. 7 Wilkinson, E.  Hayden Jr., R. (2022). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, December 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

Irwin, R. L. (2022). Action research and arts-based research: Bringing research to life. [Editorial]. Canadian Journal of Action Research, 22(3), 3-8.

2021

Sinner, Anita & Irwin, Rita L. (2021). Activating a/r/tographic propositions: Walking with art education. Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 10(2), 257-260. 

2019
Walking Propositions: Coming to Know A/r/tographically, by Lee, N., Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., & Irwin, R. L. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 38(3), 681–690.

Editorial, by Irwin, R. L., Kalin, N. & Sinner, A. International Journal of Education Through Art, 15(2), 129-131.    

 

Sub/versing mentoring expectations: Duration, discernment, by LeBlanc, N., Triggs, V. & Irwin, R. L. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 39, pp. 2-17.

2018
Ways of attending: Poetry and art, by Leggo, C. & Irwin, R. L. Canadian Review of Art Education, 45(1), 50-76.  See: http://crae.mcgill.ca/article/view/48/108

Editorial, by Irwin, Rita L., Kalin, N. & Sinner, A. International Journal of Education through Art, 14(3), 271-273.

Editorial, by Sinner, A., Irwin, Rita L., & Kalin, N. International Journal of Education through Art, 14(2), 141-143.

Teachers storying themselves into teaching: Comics as an emergent and relational way of sharing stories, LeBlanc, N. & Irwin, R. L. Landscapes of Learning, 11(2), 221-239. See this web page.


2017
Images, speech balloons and artful representation: Comics as visual narratives of early career teachers, Lawrence, Julian, Lin, Ching-Chiu, & Irwin, Rita. SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2(2), article 3, 31 pages.

Becoming teacher: A/r/tographical inquiry and visualizing metaphor. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 36(2), 200-214.

Walkings-through paint: A c/a/r/tography of slow scholarship, by Lasczik Cutcher, L. & Irwin, R. L. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, DOI: 10.1080/155505170.2017.1310680 (pp 1-9).

Editorial, by Irwin, Rita L., Kalin, N. & Sinner, A. International Journal of Education through Art, 13(3), 281-283.

Editorial, by Irwin, Rita L., Kalin, N. & Sinner, A. International Journal of Education through Art, 13(2), 143-145.

Editorial, by Rita L. Irwin. International Journal of Education through Art, 13(1), 3-5.

Interlude: Mentoring Co-existence, by Carter, Mindy, Triggs, Valerie & Irwin, Rita L. Journal of Visual Inquiry, 5(3), 457-460.


2016
Changing notions of teacher mentorship in British Columbia, by Lin, Ching-Chiu, Lawrence, Julian, & Irwin, Rita. L. CAP Journal, Fall issue, 44-47. http://cdnprincipals.org/blog/category/cap-journal/ 

Becoming a/r/tography. Neveléstudomáény: Oktatás – Kutatás – Innováció (Hungarian Art Education Journal), Vol 1, 23-37. Abridged version reprinted from Irwin, R. L. (2013). Becoming a/r/tography. Studies in Art Education, 54(3), 198-215.


2015
Resistance and intervention through a radical ethical aesthetic: The art of Gu Xiong by Bickel, B. Gu, X., with Irwin, R. L. with Beer, R., Grauer, K. & Springgay, S. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art, 4(2), 97-109.

Becoming through a/r/tography, autobiography and stories in motion, by LeBlanc, N., Davidson, S., Ryu, J. Y. & Irwin, R. L. (2015). International Journal of Education through Art. 11(3), 355-374.


2014
Performing an Intervention in the Space Between Art and Education, by May, H., O’ Donoghue, D. & Irwin, R.L. International Journal of Education through Art, 10(2), 163-177.

Walking art: Sustaining ourselves as arts educators, by Triggs, V., Irwin, R. L., & Leggo, C. (2014). Visual Inquiry:  Learning and Teaching Art, 3(1), 21-34.

Between signification and illumination: Unfolding understandings of an a/r/tographical turn on practicum, Carter, M. & Irwin, R. L. (2014). International Journal of Education & the Arts. Retrieved May 31, 2014 at http://ijea.org/v15n3/v15n3.pdf

Turning to a/r/tography, Irwin, Rita L. (2014), KOSEA Journal, 15(1), 1-40.

Elliot Eisner Remembered, Irwin, R. L. (2014). International Journal of Education & the Arts, 15(SI 1.19).  Retrieved from http://www.ijea.org/v15si1/


2013
The Creation of mind through art education, by Irwin, R. L. (2013). Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 10(2), 136-139.

Editorial: A/r/tography and the literary and performing art, by Irwin, R. L. & Sinner, A. (2013). UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts E-journal, 3(2), 1-5. Retrieved August 15, 2013 at: http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/pdfs/ejournals/vol3iss2_2013/EDITORIAL_LITERARY_AND_PERFORMANCE.pdf

Editorial: A/r/tography and the visual art, by Irwin, R. L. & Sinner, A. (2013). UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts E-journal, 3(1), 1-5. Retrieved July 26, 2013 at: http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/pdfs/ejournals/vol3iss1_2013/editorial_visual_arts.pdf

Becoming a/r/tography, by Irwin, R. L. (2013). Studies in Art Education. 54(3), 198-215.

Becoming pedagogical: Sustaining hearts with living credos, Leggo, Carl & Irwin, Rita L. (2013). In education, 19(1), 2-17. Retrieved June 11, 2013 at http://ineducation.ca/index.php/ineducation/article/view/41/590

Commitments to a community of artistic inquiry: Becoming pedagogical through a/r/tography in teacher education, by Gouzouasis, Peter, Irwin, Rita L., Miles, Emily, & Gordon, Alexandra. (2013), International Journal for the Arts in Education, 14(1). Retrieved February 16, 2013 from http://www.ijea.org/v14n1/


2012
Encountering pedagogy through relational art practices, by Irwin, R. L. & O Donoghue, D. (2012). International Journal of Art and Design Education, 31(3), 221-236.

2011
Liminal Spaces: A/r/tography as living inquiry in a language arts class, by Carl Leggo, Anita Sinner, Rita L. Irwin, Kathy Pantaleo, Peter Gouzouasis, & Kit Grauer. (2011). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(2), 239-256.

2010
A/r/tographic Collaboration as Radical Relationality, by B. Bickel, S. Springgay, R. Beer, R. L. Irwin, K. Grauer, & G. Xiong. (2010). International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(1), 86-102.

Research and Creation: Socially-Engaged Art in The City of Richgate Project, by R. Beer, R.L. Irwin, K. Grauer, & G. Xiong. (2010). Journal of the International Society for Education through Art, 6(2), 213-227.

The Educational Imagination Revisited: A review of Elliot W. Eisner(1979), by Rita L. Irwin & Karen J. Reynolds. (January, 2010). The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs. New York: Macmillan Publishing. Journal of Curriculum Inquiry, 40(1), 155-166.


2009
Rendering Embodied Heteroglossic Spaces, by Pauline Sameshima, Rita L. Irwin, Ruth Beer, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, Barbara Bickel, & Kathryn Ricketts. (2009). Journal of Arts and Communities, 1(2), 129-146. Abstract: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=9082/

A Haiku Suite: The importance of music making in the lives of secondary student, by Monica Predergast, Peter Gouzouasis, Carl Leggo, & Rita L. Irwin. (2009). Music Education Research, 11(3), 303-317.

Complexity Thinking Mentorship: An emergent pedagogy of graduate research development, by Nadine M. Kalin, Daniel T. Barney, & Rita L. Irwin. (2009). Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 17(4), 353-367.

Mentoring Relations Within A/r/tographic Inquiry, by Nadine Kalin, Daniel Baney, & Rita L. Irwin. (2009). Visual Arts Research, 35(2), 11-23. Abstract: http://www.jstor.org/pss/20715499


The City of Richgate:  A/r/tographic cartography as public pedagogy, by Rita L. Irwin, Barbara Bickel, Valerie Triggs, Stephanie Springgay, Ruth Beer, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, & Pauline Sameshim.a (2009). International Journal of Art and Design Education, 28(1), 61-70. Abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2009.01593.x/abstract

Educational Arts Research as Aesthetic Politics, by Valerie Trigg & Rita L. Irwin, with Ruth Beer, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, Stephanie Springgay, & Barbara Bickel. (2009). Working Papers in Art & Design 5. Retrieved May 29, 2011 from http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/vol5/vtriabs.html ISSN 1466-4917


2008
Pedagogy of Trace: Poetic Representations of Teaching Resiliance/Resistance in Arts Education, by Monica Prendergast, Julie Lymburner, Kit Grauer, Rita L. Irwin, Carl Leggo, & Peter Gouzouasis. (2008). Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography, 25, 58-76.

Rendering Dimensions of a Liminal Currere, by Pauline Sameshima & Rita L. Irwin (2008). Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 5(2). Available online at: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/28


Muffling Identities/Cultural Silencing: Exploring issues in cultural diversity through dance, by Kathryn Ricketts, Rita L. Irwin, Carl Leggo, Peter Gouzouasis, & Kit Grauer. (2008). NJ, Drama Australia, 31(2), 21-34.


2007
Re-imagining Arts Integration: Rhizomatic relations of the every day, by Sean Wiebe, Pauline Sameshima, Rita L. Irwin, Carl Leggo, Peter Gouzouasis, & Kit Grauer. (2007). Journal of Educational Thought, 31(3), 263-280.

Artist-Teacher Partnerships in Learning: The In/Between Spaces of Artist-Teacher Professional Development, by Sylvia Kind, Alex de Cosson, Rita L. Irwin, & Kit Grauer. (2007). Canadian Journal of Education, 30(3), 839‐864.
(see http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE30-3/CJE30-3-KindEtAl.pdf)

Transforming Public Spaces Through Community-Engaged Art, by Barbara Bickel, Valerie Triggs, Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, Ruth Beer, & Pauline Sameshima. (2007). Amerasia Journal, 33(2), 115-124.


2006
Arts-Based Educational Research Dissertations: Reviewing the practices of new scholars, by Anita Siner, Carl Leggo, Rita L. Irwin, Peter Gouzouasis, & Kit Grauer. (2006). Canadian Journal of Education, 29(4), 1223-1270. Available at: http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/Articles.htm

The Rhizomatic Relations of A/r/tography, by Rita L. Irwin, Ruth Beer, Stephanie Springgay, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, & Barbara Bickel. (2006). Studies in Art Education, 48(1), 70-88.

Walking to Create an Aesthetic and Spiritual Currere, by Rita L. Irwin. (2006). Visual Arts Research, 32(1), 75-82. Abstract: http://www.jstor.org/pss/20715404


2005
A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text, by Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, & Sylvia Wilson Kind. (2005). Qualitative Inquiry, 11(6), 897-912. Abstract: http://qix.sagepub.com/content/11/6/897.abstract

Medicine Wheel imag(in)ings: Exploring holistic curriculum perspectives, by Sylvia Kind, Rita L. Irwin, Kit Grauer, & Alex de Cosson. (2005). Art Education, 58(5), 33-38.


2004
Unfolding Aesthetic In/sights Between Curriculum and Pedagogy, by Rita L. Irwin. (2004). Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1(2), 43-48.

2003
Towards an Aesthetic of Unfolding In/sights Through Curriculum, by Rita L. Irwin. (2003). Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 1(2), 63-78. Available online at: http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/jcacs/issue/view/712/showToc,16 pgs.

2001
Passionate Creativity, Compassionate Community, by Rita L. Irwin, Wendy Stephenson, Helen Robertson, & Karen J. Reynolds. (2001). Canadian Review of Art Education, 28(2), 15-34.

Images for Understanding: Snapshots of Learning through the Arts, by Kit Grauer, Rita L. Irwin, Alex de Cosson, & Sylvia Wilson. (2001). International Journal of Education & the Arts. Available online at: http://ijea.asu.edu/v2n9/, 18 pgs.


2000
In the Spirit of Gathering, by Rita L. Irwin, Tony Rogers, & Karen J. Reynolds. (2000). Canadian Review of Art Education, 27(2), 51-72.

Pausing to Reflect: Moments in feminist collaborative action research, by Rita L. Irwin, Rosa Mastri, & Helen Robertson. (2000). Journal of Gender Issues in Art Education, 1, 43-56.

Facing Oneself: An embodied pedagogy, by Rita L. Irwin. (1999-2000). Arts and Learning Research, 16(1), 82-86.

 

* For information on earlier work, please see Rita Irwin’s full CV.

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