CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference
Community Arts in Higher Education: Inclusive practice, International
perspectives
Thursday 15th April 2010
Centre for Research into the Arts as Wellbeing,
University of Winchester, Hampshire, England
Distinguished international scholars and practitioners will provide keynote
addresses including Phil Mullen (Ireland/UK), World Council Member ISME and
Kathryn Deane (Chief Executive Sound Sense).
CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS/WORKSHOPS/and Performances
The discussion of Community Arts as a discipline in Higher Education
continues to develop. The aim of the Conference is to contribute to the
developing discussion on the study of community arts in higher education
including both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
We aim to bring together the international community breaking new ground in
the teaching of Community Arts in Higher Education. It will consider models
of practice, especially in relation to socially inclusive and emancipatory
practices in both pedagogy and wider aspects of delivery and engagement.
The conference will seek to explore creative ways of enhancing the teaching
of community arts at higher education level, that highlight the
transformatory and life affirming practices of community arts practice.
Draft Conference themes are noted below. We welcome additional suggestions
for areas and themes that may be of interest to you and that you feel may
interest colleagues.
Conference Themes:
A. Community Arts in Higher Education
Participants might consider issues such as: Pedagogical issues in teaching;
Inclusive recruitment approaches to widen access and participation;
Multi-media assessment methods to appropriate to all student learning needs
and interests; Issues related to research such as the
researcher-practitioner in community arts; Interdisciplinary perspectives in
education for community arts.
B. Partnerships and Community Arts
Participants might consider issues such as: Developing, delivering and
evaluating work-based learning opportunities for community arts students;
The community arts students' perspectives on work based learning; Models of
university and community partnerships in community arts; Social enterprise
and community arts - making an economic difference and responding to social
exclusion; Community development and regeneration; CPD and the community
artist ongoing development of the community of practice; Ethics and the
community artist.
C. Collaboration across the arts
Participants might consider issues such as: Facilitating collaboration
across the arts in Higher Education; Networking in community arts through
innovative use of technology and the media; Enhancing wellbeing through
community arts collaborative input; Issues relating to interdisciplinarity.
Philosophical, practice-based, research and critical thinking papers are
accepted. Community Arts in HE Posters, performances, installations and
workshop offers are also invited.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The official language of the conference is English.
Abstracts ( Papers 500 words, workshops/posters 100 words) should be
submitted by Oct 15th, 2009 to Professor Dr June Boyce-Tillman at
June.Boyce-tillman@winchester.ac.uk with a copy to conference organisers
communitymusicservice@gmail.com together with a short curriculum vitae (150
words). These will be peer-reviewed by the conference committee Professor
June Boyce Tillman, Professor Tim Prentki, Professor Sandra Drower. Any
papers not accepted as papers will be guaranteed acceptance as posters.
? Paper Presentations should last 20 minutes including all audiovisual
illustrations, plus 10 minutes for questions.
? Workshop presentations should be an hour in length including space for
discussion and questions.
? Poster presentations should be A2 or A3 in size.
? Performances and Installation ideas may be diverse in nature and we invite
individual discussion.
Full papers will be included in the Post-Conference Proceedings if submitted
by Mar 2010. A summary of proceedings will be submitted for publication to
the IJCM and other outlets are being explored, additional suggestions
invited.