INVITED KEYNOTE

 

Dr Pamela Burnard
University of Cambridge, UK
Co-editor, British Journal of Music Education
Associate editor of Psychology of Music

   

Bio: Dr. Pamela Burnard’s career has been woven from a combination of experiences as a musician, performer, educator, academic and researcher in Australia, USA and England from where she holds degrees in Music Performance, Music Education, and Education. She is internationally known for her work in the areas of creative learning and teaching, musical creativity/ies, assessing creativity and the sociology of music education. She acts as mentor for the Welsh Educational Research Network (WERN). Internationally known for her work as an academic, educator, researcher, editor and workshop facilitator, Pamela is co-convenor of the BERA Creativity SIG, co-editor of the British Journal of Music Education, Associate Editor of Psychology of Music and serves on 9 other editorial boards. Pamela manages an extensive research seminar programme which supplements the Masters in Arts, Culture and Education, a course she initiated and has built extensive networks which link university, school and community arts organizations.
 

 

Prof. Dr. İnci SAN
Ankara University

   

Bio: Prof. Dr. İnci SAN was born in Ankara. In 1959, she has graduated from Department of German Language and Literature. And she has received certificate from the Department of English Language and Literature. She speaks German and English languages fluently. She received university education in Art History and Archaeology. She completed Theatre Institute in two-years and the French Cultural Association of the Language Education Department in four-year program. She began her academic studies at the University of Hacettepe as Assistant on Art History in 1965 and as Assistant Professor in Ankara University Faculty of Education in 1967. Her doctoral thesis title is "Artistic Creation and Creativity in Children" in 1974, she became Associate Professor in 1981 with the entitled work "Art Education Theories". In 1988, she was promoted as Professor in various fields of science on art education and art works. Prof. Dr. Inci SAN was voluntarily retired in 1982 and she was Head of the Fine Arts Department of Education until 2000. She served in the Ministry of Education and Culture Ministry. She worked art education, creative drama and worked in the fields of museum education. She taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and arranged international seminars. In total, She has 10 books and she was Editor of 5 books, over 80 published scientific papers, articles and various writings. Inci SAN is Honorary President of the Association of Contemporary Drama and SEDER (Art Educators Association), Association of Construction Supervisor on Children's Museums, founding member of the National Education Association and founding member of ASSITEJ, Association for the Support of Contemporary Living, and member of Turkish-German Cultural Affairs Council. She has awards from various academic institutions and also, she had 2004 3th ETHOS Ankara International Theater Festival Honor Award. Prof. Dr. Inci SAN received Muhsin Ertugrul’s 2005 UNICEF Turkey National Committee Award, and the 2007 National Education Association, Education Honor Award.
 

 


Jeff Adams
Professor of Education
Principal Editor International Journal of Art and Design Education
University of Chester, UK


Bio: Jeff Adams is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and Children's Services at the University of Chester, where he is leader of the Professional Doctorate in Education programme; he is also Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art & Design Education.



Overview


Before the current academic year Jeff worked at Edge Hill University as Reader in Education, where he coordinated doctoral studies in the Faculty of Education, and led the Doctoral Society and the University Academic Reading Group. He was also research Mentor and co-Institutional Lead for the inter-university ESRC project, the Teachers' Education Research Network (TERN). This followed several years at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he developed and led the Artist Teacher MA Programme. Prior to this Jeff lectured at Liverpool John Moores University, coordinating the Artist Teacher MA and the PGCE Secondary Art and Design course; concurrent with this he was tutoring modern art history for the Open University. Jeff's earlier career was spent teaching in secondary comprehensive schools in Yorkshire and Cumbria. His BA was in Fine Art (painting and photography), his MA in History of Art (contemporary art and popular culture), and he has a PGCE Art and Design; his PhD (University of Liverpool, 2003) was entitled ‘Graphic Novels and Social Realism'.

Research

Jeff's research interests include: creativity (he is currently part of a funded interuniversity project researching creativity in teacher education); contemporary art education; applying theory to educational research; politics and documentary in the arts, particularly graphic novels and comics; the professional development of teachers, especially those working in the arts. Jeff is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Published work

Jeff's books include Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism (Peter Lang, 2008); Teaching Through Contemporary Art (with Worwood, Atkinson, Dash, Herne & Page; Tate Publishing, 2008); The Application of Theory to Education Research (with Cochrane & Dunne (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2011); a recent journal paper is ‘Risky choices: the dilemmas of introducing contemporary art practices into schools', in the British Journal of Sociology of Education (2010, 31.6, pp. 683-701).