Newsletter #9

An Arts Education Imperative: New Directions for Sustainability 
Newsletter No. 9
5 November 2021

Hello members, 

Update on progress
We have great news! Using the links below, you can now watch our team’s video presentations for the "Conference 2021 - Creative CONVERGENCE Créative" - hosted by The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning. Each video runs for 15 minutes.

Working collaboratively across the globe to consider Arts Education imperatives: new directions for sustainability 
A/Prof Neryl Jeanneret, A/Prof Mark Selkrig, Dr Emily Wilson and Dr Jenni Hillman
SelkrigM etal Working collaboratively ArtsEdImperatives 1 

Overview: This presentation is the first of two where we discuss the establishment of an international research project that explores four identified imperatives that will shape and propel arts education during the foreseeable, uncertain times. The project is designed to build both collective and diverse understandings about these imperatives through a range of digital tools and platforms while also detailing lived experiences of the researchers in addressing arts education challenges. An overview of the project’s various digital strategies, tools and platforms will be revealed to show how we aim to set the groundwork to transform education practices in building a resilient, equitable and sustainable future.  
  
Placemaking and digital data sites for a sustainable arts education(s)  
Dr Kathryn Coleman, Amanda Belton, Neda Sajadi and Jessica Laraine Williams 
Placemaking and digital data sites for a sustainable arts education(s) 

Overview: This 20/20 presentation will explore opportunities for arts based educational research and arts education praxis research using digital methods and feminist metho-pedagogies. We position how placemaking as a ‘New Materialist Theory of Pedagogy’ can be harnessed to make and know place, differently for the endemic. Our video presentation uses the same method of patching data traces as placestories that we invited our collaborators to embody and brings together artist-teachers, artist-researchers, data creatives to speculate what might be.
 

Dr Jenni Hillman | Project Manager 
Nedasadat Sajadi | Research Assistant 
Melbourne Graduate School of Education 
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia 
E: jenni.hillman@unimelb.edu.au 
neda.sajadi@unimelb.edu.au 
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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and future.