Art teacher training: A photo essay

This photo essay is part of a performance entitled ‘The Topsy-Turvey Classroom’.
It involves students participating in a Master’s programme for visual arts teachers
and was staged by surprise on their first day of class. These photographs help the
spectator to relive and interpret the experiences that these students had when the
door opened on our peculiar ‘Art Basement’. We can see their unexpected reactions,
preconceived expectations turned upside down, expressions of uncertainty, unpredictable movements, a performance build-up and their creative interventions. The interconnection between the text and the photographs presents the practical application of teaching strategies involving an art-based educational research for the teacher’s professional development.