Metalogue and Autoconstrucción: Two Models for Collaborative Publishing by Busy Practitioners

• Published in: Art education (Reston) Vol. 69; no. 5; pp. 32 - 39
• Main Authors: Lucero, Jorge, Nichols, Anna, Stienecker, Dawn, Nisbett, Janet E., Lewis, Lillian, Hyatt, Joana, McCarthy, Kristen, Darter, Lee Tyler, Kieling, Linda White, Green, Jessica, Peters, Deborah S., Brooks, Robin E., Brooks, Stephanie, Juarez, Frank, Jacobs, Sue Ellen, Reeder, Laura K., Rolling, James Haywood
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Reston Routledge 01-09-2016; National Art Education Association; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Art Education; Art Teachers; Artists; Collaboration; Collaborative Writing; Periodicals; Writing for Publication
• DOI: 10.1080/00043125.2016.1202068
• EISSN: 2325-5161
• ISSN: 0004-3125

The purpose of this article is to address a problematic subject that emerged from a question presented by an art teacher on the Facebook group "Art Teachers." The article, presented as a "metalogue," encourages a conversation about who is publishing and who can publish in "Art Education." In response to the problematic subject of "who" publishes, the authors propose that anyone with expertise to share, especially classroom teachers, can share that expertise. At the same time, they stipulate that the reasons busy teachers may not be submitting articles for publication in "Art Education" has little to do with a lack of content to publish, but rather, it has to do with strongly held--and sometimes conflicting--understandings about "how" and "what" articles are "supposed" to be submitted for review to the journal. As informed by the art of the metalogue--where the form of the conversation is also relevant to the subject--this article has two separate but equal parts to it. They run concurrently alongside one another. Readers can then choose to read them in relation to each other, or one after the other. The two parts are labeled A and B. Part A is an abridged version of a Facebook group conversation thread that was initiated by Anna Nichols and Part B is a personal narrative of how the Facebook thread initiated by Nichols generated this idea for a collaborative article organized by Jorge Lucero. The pairing of these two types of writing under the form of the "metalogue" is offered as a type of solution to the "how" question of art teacher publishing.