Graduate School of Education
 

Abstract Deadline: April 17, 2007
Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007

This conference, which uses Open Conference Systems developed by the Public Knowledge Project, enables participants to submit abstracts online at http://ocs.ilrt.org/submit.php?cf=8.

Presentations can include:

Call for Papers Announcement

Papers and workshops are now invited for this interdisciplinary conference on arts-based educational research. Submissions are particularly welcomed from researchers and practitioners concerned with blurring the edges between arts and social science research methods and with exploring innovative arts-based approaches. Conference themes include performative, visual and textual genres of educational inquiry. Presentations are welcomed from participants who generate, communicate and/or disseminate their work through such diverse fields as auto/biography, dance, drama, film, music, narrative, performance, photography, poetry, visual arts and writing as inquiry.
The majority of conference presentations will be in the form of short (20 minute) papers , although there will be a few workshop spaces (45-90 minutes).

Invited speakers and plenary presenters include:

Peter Clough, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Andrew Sparkes, University of Exeter, UK
Ruth Leitch and Caryl Sibbett, Queens University Belfast, UK
Kim Etherington, Martin Hughes, Wan Ching Yee and Jane Speedy, University of Bristol, UK
Yvonne Sliep and the Narrative Theatre Group, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Salome Raheim, University of Iowa, USA
Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Stephanie Springgay, Penn State University and the A/r/tography Research Group (Canada and USA)
Kip Jones, Bournemouth University, UK
Donal O’Donoghue, University of Limerick, Ireland
Keri Facer, FutureLab, UK
Libby Worth, Lecturer in Theatre Practice, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Cathy Nutbrown, Sheffield University, UK
Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK
Diane Waller, University of London, UK