News

June 2011
The Centre for the Arts and Learning in the Department of Educational Studies and in collaboration with Tate is delighted to announce the award of an AHRC Collaborative Doctorate. The research will conduct a critical analysis of artists’ engagement with learning programmes at Tate from 1970-2010 as documented in Tate’s extensive education archive.

May 2011
New PhD Programme in Art and Learning

March 2011
 New book by Professor Dennis Atkinson 'Art, Equality and Learning  Pedagogies Against the State'. In this book the notions of real learning and equality are approached as processes of becoming leading to the figuration of new worlds through local curations of learning and practice. Though its main theses are  grounded in the context of art practice and education they have a much wider application to other (perhaps all) contexts of learning through the notions of pedagogies against the state and pedagogies of the event. The book conceives learning as a political act rather than, for example, an incremental process of psychological or sociological development.

August 2009
John Johnston's international art work entitled 'Mayo' (My Mother in Bemba, a Zambian language) was unveiled at Craigavon Area Hospital.  The mural aims to highlight the lack of medical services for women in poor countries, the International artwork reported.

A report by Tara Page 'The impact of the Artist Teacher in  Contemporary Practices MA at Goldsmiths University of London on the artistic and pedagogical practices of the students in the 2008-2009  academic year'  was well received by NSEAD (The National  Society for Education in Art and Design) and will be distributed to all  artist teacher schemes around the UK.

December 2008
Teaching Through Contemporary Art by Jeff Adams, Kelly Worwood, Dennis Atkinson, Paul Dash, Steve Herne and Tara Page.
This survey is the culmination of a year-long research collaboration between Tate and Goldsmiths funded by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)