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	Ms Kim Snepvangers MArtEd UNSW, BEd(Art) AMCAE Head of School School of Art History and Art Education
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Academic Profile

Education

MArtEd , College of Fine Arts UNSW, Sydney, Australia , .
BEd (Art) , Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney, Australia , .

Areas of Expertise

Poststructural and qualitative research methodologies in art, design and education, contemporary theories of evaluation and assessment, dialogues in community cultural development and planning, online flexible course design.

Teaching Areas

Qualitative research methodologies, assessment and evaluation in art, design and education, educational management in art, design and education, community and cultural planning, blended elearning.

Research Supervision

Degree:	Project:	Status:
MDesHons	The central role of the designers' appreciative system in socially situated design activity.	Current
PhDArtEd	Informing Studio-based Research: Art, Design & Information Literacy	Current
MArtEdHons	An Investigation of a Constructivist Online Learning Environment in Visual Arts & Design Education	Current

Current Research Activity

Kim Snepvangers’s current research reports on a rich cultural narrative of what it is like to conduct assessment in art and design. Her research uses qualitative methodologies, interviews and case studies to reveal some of the psycho-social dimensions of assessment. Kim's emergent theory anticipates assessment as spectacle, using a poststructural theoretical framework and the work of Guy Debord (1983). The research explores the orthodoxy and rhetoric of traditional assessment to reveal other agendas in the practice of artistic assessment. By exposing gaps in authenticity, between appearance and reality some of the motives behind the public face of assessment are revealed.

Publications

Refereed Conference Papers

Snepvangers, K. (2007 (in process)). The Cult of Celebrity & Medical Misadventures: Two Case Studies Symptomatic of Assessment as a Social Construction. Research Impacts: Proving or Improving?, (Australian Association for Research in Education, AARE, Fremantle, Australia.

Snepvangers, K. McDonald, G. (2006). Contemporary Art Practice and the Public Domain.. Thinking the Future: Art, Design and Creativity, (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools, ACUADS, Melbourne, Australia.

Snepvangers, K. McAlpine, I. (2006). Student Learning Processes Using an Online PBL Module in an Art and Design Education Course. Who's Learning? Whos' Technology?, (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE, Sydney, Australia.

Snepvangers, K. McAlpine, I. (2004). Online System Design to Support New Learning in an Art & Design Education Course.. International Conference on Education and Information Systems, EISTA, (The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics: The International Conference of Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications , Orlando, Florida, USA.

Snepvangers, K. (2002). The Spectacle of Authenticity in the Assessment of Students in Art & Design. Australian Association for Research in Education, AARE, (Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Brisbane, Australia.

Grants

COFA Travel Grant, Celebrity and medical misadventures. (2007),

Professional Associations

College Art Association (USA) Member

National Art Education Association (USA) Member

Australian Association for Research in Education Member

Australian Curriculum Studies Association Member

Art Education Australia Editorial Board

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