Professor Dennis Atkinson will be the keynote speaker at the iJADE Conference 2010 on Art and Design Education and Contemporary Culture. The one-day conference on Friday, October 8th at the Art and Design Academy of Liverpool John Moores University will explore how contemporary culture shapes art practices and pedagogies in education. Speakers are invited to submit 150-200 word abstracts on topics relating contemporary art, design, cultures, pedagogies, policies and identities in education by June 11th for consideration. The conference fee is £60 or £48 for students and members of NSEAD.
Professor Dennis Atkinson will be the keynote speaker at the iJADE Conference 2010 on Art and Design Education and Contemporary Culture. The one-day conference on Friday, October 8th at the Art and Design Academy of Liverpool John Moores University will explore how contemporary culture shapes art practices and pedagogies in education. Speakers are invited to submit 150-200 word abstracts on topics relating contemporary art, design, cultures, pedagogies, policies and identities in education by June 11th for consideration. The conference fee is £60 or £48 for students and members of NSEAD.
Professor Dennis Atkinson will be the keynote speaker at the iJADE Conference 2010 on Art and Design Education and Contemporary Culture. The one-day conference on Friday, October 8th at the Art and Design Academy of Liverpool John Moores University will explore how contemporary culture shapes art practices and pedagogies in education. Speakers are invited to submit 150-200 word abstracts on topics relating contemporary art, design, cultures, pedagogies, policies and identities in education by June 11th for consideration. The conference fee is £60 or £48 for students and members of NSEAD.
author of Art in Education, Identity and Practice and Pedagogy Against the State
Friday 8 October 2010
10am–5pm, Art and Design Academy, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
iJADE Conference 2010
Art and Design Education
and Contemporary Culture Call for papers The Journal is hosting an international The conference welcomes papers on a Notification of proposal acceptance conference on art and design educa wide variety of topics under the broad will be made by 9 July; acceptance will tion, with the theme of contemporary banner of contemporary culture, and be conditional upon registration and culture – to complement the Liverpool whilst the following list is not exhaus payment of the conference fee. The Biennial of Contemporary Art that will tive, it may be of assistance in guiding fee for all delegates (including presen- be showing at venues across the city potential speakers on the content of ters) is £60 (£48 for NSEAD members at this time. The powerful social forces their papers. Topics should relate to and students) to include lunch and that shape cultures may have profound art and design in any phase or type of refreshments. Last day for conference effects upon art practices, perhaps by education and could include: contem registration for all attendees is Friday encouraging conformity to prevailing porary art practices; gallery education; 10 September 2010. trends, or, alternatively, by generating cultures of design and applied arts; pro acts of resistance. Institutional educa gressive pedagogies; state educational A sample of conference presenters will tional art practices may be responsive policy; race and ethnicity; gender is be invited to extend their papers for in myriad ways to this complex inter sues; social class; marginalised cultures; inclusion in an edition of the Journal. face of the cultural, social and political. localised cultural issues; globalisation; Teachers/educators, learners/students social identity; environment; techno The day will include a free session on and their communities may be faced logical development; the philosophies academic writing for journals for new with a bewildering array of pressures, of contemporary education… researchers led by members of the which not only affect aesthetic codes Journal’s editorial team. and creative pedagogies, but also raise Interested potential speakers are in profound issues of identity. In what vited to email a 150–200 word abstract To register for the conference go to ways are these cultural and social to Emma Fitzgerald, Conference Admin www.nsead.org practices manifest in educational art istrator, Liverpool John Moores Univer production? What do they mean to sity, e.fitzgerald@ljmu.ac.uk by Friday the participants? What are the con 11 June 2010, or call her on +44/0 sequences of cultural policies and 151 231 5334. The abstract should practices? The conference hopes to outline the content of the paper (for encourage papers that will contribute a 20 minute presentation), and include to debate around these and related a brief statement on its relevance to concerns of contemporary culture. the conference theme.