Pedagogy in Focus
Enhancing Critical Visual Culture Education through AI-Assisted Visual Analysis View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sheng Kuan Chung
This paper explores an innovative AI-assisted visual analysis assignment in an undergraduate critical visual culture course. In our visually saturated arena, developing students' ability to critically analyze images is crucial. This study investigates how integrating AI tools into visual analysis tasks enhances students' critical thinking skills, deepens their understanding of visual culture, and prepares them for an AI-driven future. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, examining a three-step assignment: students conduct a personal image analysis, use AI tools for further analysis, and integrate insights from both perspectives. Data collection includes qualitative analysis of student work and surveys. This study contributes to the discourse on AI integration in humanities education, offering educators a viable lens for AI-assisted assignments and pedagogical insights into fostering 21st-century skills in visual culture studies.
‘Liquindi’ and Music Performance Techniques in African Traditional Percussion Music View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Xuanyuan Jin
Traditional African music is full of stylistic diversity that helps connect contemporary culture with musical awareness. Various heritages across the musicological spectrum continually recast the African traditional musicianship, developing its origins and historical roots into various musical expressions integrated into the African diaspora and its diversified musical vocabulary. Musical awareness in music education is crucial to achieving a differentiated and balanced music curriculum, with various cultures necessitating representation within the pedagogical range (Zou and Gong, 2025). The current research project focused on the contemporary music appreciation oeuvre that amalgamates different creative expressions in the studied heritage, intending to promote and progress the repertoire selections in the quest to develop an awareness of underrepresented music knowledge within the K-12 pedagogy since more academic research is necessary to understand the influence of African traditional music in the artistic context and evolving music curriculum. This research analyzed a selection of musicological and ethnomusicological examples utilizing 'liquindi' as a performance technique among non-pitched percussion instruments, seeking to extract pedagogical symbolism in the 'water drumming' style and its use of the natural environment as a medium for artistic diversity and creative expression.
Multi-Modal Argumentation as Intellectual Hospitality in Theological Education View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Loris Isabettini
This research presents multi-modal argumentation as a form of intellectual hospitality, offering an inclusive pedagogical framework for theological education. Grounded in Michael Gilbert’s model, this approach integrates logical, emotional, kisceral, and visceral reasoning to expand beyond traditional logocentric methods. By engaging with the mystical thought of Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, and Saint Augustine, this method welcomes diverse modes of understanding, demonstrating that theological discourse is inherently multi-modal. Just as hospitality creates space for diverse guests, this pedagogical model embraces intuition, embodiment, and affective reasoning, ensuring all students—regardless of cognitive or cultural background—can participate meaningfully in theological inquiry. This shift not only enriches theological literacy but also aligns with contemporary advancements in argumentation studies and interdisciplinary education, positioning theological classrooms as spaces of intellectual hospitality where multiple reasoning modes are invited, recognized, and valued.
