Jennifer Pazienza
Name: Jennifer Pazienza
Area: Artist/Educator
Phone: 506-453-3508
Fax: 506-453-3569
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Education summary:
1989 Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
1985 Master of Education, Pennsylvania State University
1976 Bachelor of Education, William Paterson College of New Jersey
Key area(s) of interest/expertise:
Teaching/research areas
Philosophy, theory and practice in Art Education
Inquiry based practices have been at the heart of Pazienza's teaching and, long before the language of Problem-Based Learning.
Phenomenology and hermeneutics have been central to her work as an artist and researcher
Arts Based Research
Critical appoaches to teaching art to children
Practicing Artist
Classroom/practicum teaching summary:
Supervised student teachers in the Faculty of Education and created an internatioanl internship for Renaissance College in Tuscany.
Teaching:
Over the course of nearly 23 years Pazienza has taught ED 3211-Introduction of Visual Culture, ED 5154- Power of Images, which she wrote for the Faculty of Education and students across campus. ED 4211-Integrated Learning through Art. In her time with Renaissance College she wrote and taught in the module, Images and Isight. She taught in the Wellness Module and the Integrated Forum.
She is currently teaching ED 6902-Introduction to Research Methods in Education and ED 821-Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in Education, face to face and online. She has taught in the Doctoral Seminar and Curriculum Issues.
Doctoral Seminar Practicum/Professional mentoring:
You can explain in this section if you have been involved in any practicum/professional mentoring aspect at either the Graduate level, Adult Ed, Counseling etc. or Undergraduate level. This section will be omitted if it does not apply.
Pazienza has and continues to mentor undergraduate and graduate students in the Faculty of Edcuation and Renaissance College, teachers in the schools, and emerging artists.
Professional practice, committees, volunteer work summary:
Jennifer Pazienza has taught art in grades K-12 in New Jersey and Pennsylavania. In 1987-88, she taught art education at Texas Tech University, where she also learned to blow glass. The following year she moved to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. But it was the University of New Brunswick, with its promise of academic freedom and its high regard for artistic forms of teaching and research that won her heart. So, in 1989 with an offer she could not refuse, she joined the Faculty of Education where she has contributed, undergraduate teaching in art particularly, and to building graduate studies in art education and the PhD program. Outside of the Faculty of Education she was involved in the creation, implementation of and instruction in the Bachelor of Applied Arts and the Fine Arts minor, the creation of the Eaton Multimedia Centre and Renaissance College, home of UNB's Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies program. Pazienza has worked as a research consultant for the Getty Centre for Arts Education, the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. She has presented scholarly papers at conferences in Canada, the US and Europe. She has written reports, research proceedings, articles, book reviews, and chapters in books and has served as critic and juror for other artists/scholars' work while maintaining a studio and exhibition practice. Jennifer Pazienza worked with Sicilian artisans at Artigianato del Sole in 2005, which resulted in a commissioned ceramic tile panel for Azienda Agricola Alcalà. During Canada's celebration of its Fine Craft tradition, she served as artist/educator in residence at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery interpreting contemporary and historical craft objects in paintings. She returned to Alcalà and her Italian roots again in the spring of 2007 to paint a mural that celebrates Sicilian citrus and its craft tradition—majolica ceramics. Jennifer Pazienza regularly volunteers her time and art to the community generally and arts groups particularly. One such example is the Cristina Sabat Memorial Lecture Series, which began in 1999 and has hosted a range of Canada's leading cultural thinkers.
