Arising roots in the University of Ottawa: artistic actions created from the African arteducator’s autobiography for Secondary Education teachers

Abstract

This Art-based Educational Research work pretends to show the methodological possibilities of the autobiography in the Art Education field in order to connect teachers with their own story and share their search with the students. I create my autobiography as an arteducator through a personal introspection using artistic methodologies and research tools such as photographs and audiovisuals from my family archive. From this autobiography, I generate a reflection centered on my reality as a black, Bubi and Galician woman in a mostly white environment from the diaspora. I extrapolate these memories developing artistic strategies which I put into practice in different places of the world like A Coruña (Spain), Ottawa (Canada), Anantapur (India) and Malabo (Equatorial Guinea). I share in this paper the actions which I put into practice with Secondary Education teachers in the University of Ottawa as a way of offering evidence in the possibilities of change when working with teachers who can pass their knowledge to the students.