Keynote speaker:

Professor Dennis Atkinson, Goldsmiths College,

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