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Record W4409547706 · doi:10.1080/14681366.2025.2488028

Knots: composition in the fine arts classroom

2025· article· en· W4409547706 on OpenAlex
Sandra Huber, Molly-Claire Gillett

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenuePedagogy Culture and Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArt Education and Development
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComposition (language)Mathematics educationSociologyPedagogyVisual artsArtMathematicsLiterature

Abstract

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How and why do we use writing in the contemporary Fine Arts classroom? What are the expanded possibilities of composition as a pedagogical tool, especially considering the mutability of writing and its already ambiguous role in interdisciplinary creative practice? This paper uses our year-long foundational course at Concordia University, with an enrolment of 900 students from across the Faculty of Fine Arts (including design and performance-based disciplines), as a case study to explore these questions. The class, ‘Keywords: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines’, employs a roster of ever-changing keywords – such as sense(s), failure, care, and the future — as sites to develop interdisciplinary thought-work and artwork. Drawing on problem-posing pedagogy and critical theory, we think of keywords as knots that invite us into an exploration of tangles. ‘Keywords’ (the course) is also a knot, presenting us with a series of intertwined (and impossible) questions. What writing skills do all 900 of our students need? How will they use writing in their future practices? This paper follows a series of keywords that we have explored in class, offering practices and reflections at the intersection of writing, interdisciplinarity, and creative arts pedagogy, all of which centre composition as an embodied practice.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.782
Threshold uncertainty score0.275

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it