Supervised professional training in the Master of Aesthetic Practices in Society (part-time) – specialisation Art and Design Didactics
In the specialisation Art and Design Didactics, supervised professional training and collaboration with working life is carried out via observational practice during the first year of study and via other collaborative teaching projects.
Art and Design Didactics provides the basis for the title of ‘lektor’ (secondary education teacher with a master’s degree) and qualifies candidates to teach and disseminate in various arenas. The supervised professional training focuses on alternative dissemination arenas for art and culture in society. The aim of supervised professional training in this specialisation is for students to acquire knowledge and experience of dissemination and how children, young people and other learners experience, sense, understand and reflect on different artistic and cultural expressions.
The supervised professional training helps to promote students’ ability to reflect on and develop their own professional practice. Through supervised professional training, students will achieve satisfactory learning outcomes in accordance with the programme plan and associated course plans. See more in the programme plan for the Master of Aesthetic Practices in Society (part-time).
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Organisation of supervised professional training
Through the programme of study, students will be in contact with working life and artistic and cultural arenas via course teaching. Students carry out observational training in an external arena during the programme of study’s second semester in the course MESTD4120.
The course includes at least 10 hours of supervised professional training in the form of artistic and cultural dissemination. Supervised professional training will be carried out between the spring study sessions. Students must involve themselves in active dissemination, participatory observation, or various forms of collaboration at a dissemination arena focused on the arts, design and cultural sectors.
More information about the implementation of supervised professional training will be provided via teaching and the Canvas learning platform.
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Supervised professional training providers and placement
Students actively take part in finding their own suitable supervised professional training placements. The supervised professional training placement provider should be proposed by the student at the start of the course and must be approved by the department.
The supervised professional training placement must be an arena that works with various forms of art- and design-related dissemination activities, outside of school and teaching. Examples of supervised professional training placement providers include: libraries, art institutions, galleries, museums, knowledge centres, makerspace workshops, activity centres, project-based cultural activities etc.
The supervised professional training placement cannot be the student’s own workplace. Supervised professional training can be carried out individually or in groups.
The Department of Art, Design and Drama is responsible for ensuring that agreements and formal frameworks for the implementation of supervised professional training are communicated to all parties in a collaboration.
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Supervised professional training attendance
Completion of supervised professional training is required coursework and must receive a pass grade in order for students to take the examination.
Students must complete 10 hours of supervised professional training and a documented dissemination activity, as well as have at least 80 percent attendance at sessions. Students are responsible for compensating for any missed supervised professional training due to illness or unforeseen events before taking the examination.
The student and the supervised professional training placement provider agree on the work content and the distribution of working hours throughout the period of training. Agreed attendance must be approved by the Department of Art, Design and Drama at OsloMet.
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Learning outcomes via supervision and assessment
Supervised professional training in the Art and Design Didactics specialisation integrates subject didactics, dissemination and social contact based on artistic and design skills. This provides the opportunity to work with artistic, cultural, and social issues in various fields, and is relevant for work in schools, education and other dissemination arenas.
Training will be supervised and assessed by an academically qualified supervisor at the department. Prior to supervised professional training taking place, students are assigned a supervisor who follows up the students’ training implementation. Training supervision may take place digitally if this is appropriate and by agreement.
Supervised professional training is assessed using the grading scale pass/fail.