Artful Leadership – transforming leadership through playful and artistic thinking and doing

Dedicated to research with and by leaders shaping the educational landscape, this webinar emphasises using the arts to understand and shape leadership strategies and policy dialogue and frameworks to enhance educational outcomes and equity. Case studies from research and scholarship will focus on arts-based knowing and educational leadership practice.

This webinar appraises the significant role of the arts can play in understanding and influencing leadership strategies, as well as policy dialogue and frameworks. By integrating artistic perspectives and methodologies, the research case studies presented in the webinar aims to foster a deeper comprehension of the complexities and nuances involved in educational leadership and policy-making, and explores how Arts Based Education Research can promote innovative thinking and creative problem-solving. Approaching leadership artfully enables leaders to conceptualize and implement strategies that can lead to improved educational outcomes and greater equity. The webinar calls for a re-evaluation of leadership paradigms, advocating for leadership that is inclusive, exploratory, and ethically grounded in social, economic and ecological justice. It challenges leaders to embrace uncertainty, take risks, and cultivate a nurturing environment where creativity can flourish, paving the way for transformative, justice-centered sustainable change.

Artful Leadership is the third of three webinars which will present how Arts Based Educational Research offers a deep exploration of how the arts profoundly impact educational research, influencing personal and societal transformation across global contexts. These webinars will be a sharing of academic research and a call to action urging creativity for social change through the arts. They invite the audience into a conversation about the transformative role of the arts in educational research, inspiring action across diverse landscapes. Speakers will also presents a practical toolkit of advice for researchers wishing to include ABER in their practice. The webinars draw on material from the forthcoming Handbook of Arts-Based Educational Research (Bloomsbury). The presenters of the webinars (in calendar order: Rebecca Berkley, Adam Hart and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan) are part of the editorial team of this handbook.

As part of a series, the other two events can be found here:

The Creative Educator

Creative Advocacy

Please note: These events can be attended independently, and do not require attendance at other events in the series to register.