Gerard Bellefeuille

Dr. Bellefeuille's current research and teaching interests include: Arts-based education and arts-based research methods: The strength of education achieved through the creative use of arts-based methods is grounded in the belief that creativity is central to human learning because a creative learner is able to engage in alternative ways of knowing that includes the spirit, mind, body and emotional components of learning. Arts-based teaching and learning methods create additional intellectual space‖ that revitalize students’ level of somatic awareness, thus resulting in richer and deeper learning experiences by bringing to consciousness the spiritual, emotional and mythological aspects of the self, broadening one’s understanding of the world as they help to uncover hidden knowledge that cannot easily be expressed in words. It is Dr. Bellefeuille's belief that the complexity and diversity of modern-day life can be illuminated and communicated more freely through the arts because the latter provides the opportunity for varied constructions of meaning, thus allowing students to break out of established cultural dominant patterns of framing the world. | Arts-based education, arts-based research methods, Indigenous child welfare practice, community practice, program evaluation, relational-centred practice, relational-centred inquiry

Gerard Bellefeuille is Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include Dr. Bellefeuille's current research and teaching interests include: Arts-based education and arts-based research methods: The strength of education achieved through the creative use of arts-based methods is grounded in the belief that creativity is central to human learning because a creative learner is able to engage in alternative ways of knowing that includes the spirit, mind, body and emotional components of learning. Arts-based teaching and learning methods create additional intellectual space‖ that revitalize students’ level of somatic awareness, thus resulting in richer and deeper learning experiences by bringing to consciousness the spiritual, emotional and mythological aspects of th. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.