Upcoming event
Creative Advocacy – using arts based education research to engage new audiences and give voice to participants
This webinar discusses how the arts can be used to communicate powerful ideas in flexible and adaptable ways. The webinar explores how arts-based researchers may work alongside third-sector organisations to generate impact for various causes. This includes the use of creative methods to engage new audiences and amplify voices in a wide range of causes.
Case studies drawn from global research contexts will explore how arts based education research can help communities to find and communicate their identities, use arts education for curriculum decolonisation and develop sustainability through arts-based interventions. The arts curriculum may connect with culture and knowledge beyond those of Western and colonial origin. Arts-based research may act as a catalyst for wider curriculum decolonisation and development in Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM. The webinar will discuss working with research participants using the arts to support a wide range of learners to express and craft their own stories. It reports on ways that individuals and communities may be estranged from arts education, the surrounding socioeconomic and cultural factors, and how engagement in the arts can provide a basis to improve lives and strengthen communities, particularly giving a voice to those who may feel underrepresented by formal education.
Creative Advocacy is the second 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:
Please note: These events can be attended independently, and do not require attendance at other events in the series to register.
Lecturer in Music Technology at University of Salford
Dr Adam Hart is a lecturer in music technology at the University of Salford. He has a background in secondary education and audio programming, and his research interests involve creative advocacy through interactive technology. His PhD project...
Associate Professor in Music Education at University of Reading
Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. Her areas of interest are classroom musicianship, choral education, musical leadership and musical cognition. She is the co-director of the Postgraduate...
Professor at University of Nottingham
Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is an education professor at the University of Nottingham. Her work inspires educators and other professionals to see themselves as curious, resourceful learners with the power to effect context-appropriate,...
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Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) uses ideas, methods, techniques, and processes from the arts to help understand and improve education.
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