We are delighted to share that the the 1st Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning Conference will take place in partnership with Norwich University of the Arts and the National Society for Education in Art and Design on Saturday 25th March 2023.
This is an online conference intended as a space to bring together artist-teachers working in the sector to share good practices, research, ideas, and experiences.
The conference draws on the wider aims of the artist-teacher in ACL community of practice and intends to help us build a supportive network, value our expertise, share best practices and talk about the ‘little things.’
The conference will include a keynote address from Professor Samantha Broadhead, participant contributions, and interactive art activities, further programme details to be released in February 2023.
Professor Samantha Broadhead is Head of Research at Leeds Arts University. Previously, she has worked in many sectors such as: community arts, prison education, Access education and teacher training. Her research interests include access and widening participation in art and design education and the educational sociology of Basil Bernstein (1924–2000). She serves on the Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning’s editorial board. Broadhead has co-authored with Professor Maggie Gregson (2018) Practical Wisdom and Democratic Education – Phronesis, Art and Non-traditional Students, Palgrave Macmillan. She also has co-authored with Rosemarie Davies and Anthony Hudson (2019) Perspectives on Access: Practice and Research, Emerald Publishing. She has also produced an edited book, Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan (2022). Broadhead has been involved with projects funded by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service and the Education and Training Foundation that aimed to improve Access students’ experiences of transition from further education to higher education by the use of joint practice development. Other research includes the QAA Collaborative Enhancement Projects 2021 “Belonging Through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion” and evaluation activity for Creative Scene, an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation. Currently Broadhead is working on Learning Returns , a practice-based project that uses YouTube to capture the experiences of mature students studying art and design.
Call for Abstracts
This conference welcomes contributions from artist-teachers in ACL at all stages of their careers, on their experience of being an artist-teacher in ACL.
The conference accepts contributions in several forms including, but not limited to paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, and arts-based research.
The theme of the conference is ‘Coming Together,’ to make the 1st conference of its kind. There are several sub-themes to align your contribution with:
- Motivation to be an artist-teacher in ACL
- Conflicts faced by artist-teachers in ACL
- Values of artist-teachers in ACL
- Becoming an artist-teacher in ACL
- Impact of artist-teachers in ACL on their learners
The conference is FREE to attend but you must register for a ticket as places are limited – Register here
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