Dennis Atkinson PhD
Dennis is Professor of Art in Education and is Head of the Research Centre for the Arts and Learning in the Department of Educational Studies.
He taught for seventeen years in secondary school and was Head of Art for Twelve years. He was the course leader for the PGCE Art and Design Secondary Course at Goldsmiths for ten years and still contributes to this programme.
He is MA tutor for modules in Visual Culture and Education, Culture, Pedagogy and Curriculum, and Contemporary Art, Identity and Education which is taught in association with Tate Modern in London. He supervises MPhil/PhD students covering a range of research fields including art and design education, discourse and power in education, learner and teacher identities and action research in education.
Dennis has a particular interest in employing hermeneutic, post-structural and psychoanalytic theory to explore the formation of teacher and learner identities and practices within educational contexts. He is currently Principal Editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education and has published regularly in academic journals since 1991.
Departmental Appointments
Head of Research Centre for the Arts and Learning
Research degree supervisor
MA tutor
PGCE Art and Design (secondary) tutor
Member of Post Graduate Committee
Member of Research Committee
Member of Department Management Committee
College Appointments
College Teaching and learning Committee
External Appointments
Principal Editor International Journal of Art and Design education
External examiner PGCE Art and Design Secondary Course UCE Birmingham
External examiner MA in Education Roehampton University of Surrey
Selected publications
(2011) Atkinson, D. Art, Equality and Learning Pedagogies Against the State SensePublishers
(2006) Atkinson, D, Brown, T & England, J, Regulatory Discourses in Education: A Lacanian Perspective, Peter Lang(2005) Atkinson, D & Dash, P, Social and Critical Practice in Art Education, Trentham Books
(2002) Atkinson, D Art in Education: Identity and Practice , Kluwer Academic Publishers
Book Chapters
(2010) ‘Teaching Now With the Living; A Dialogue with Teachers Investigating Contemporary Art practices’ with Page,T. Charman,H. Adams,J. Dash,P Herne S. In Readings in Primary Art Education, Bristol:Intellect ISBN 978-1-84150-242-7
(2010) ‘How Children Use Drawing’ pp139-152, Readings in Primary Art Education, {Eds}Herne, S. Cox, S, Watts R. Bristol: Intellect.ISBN 978-1-84150-242-7
(2007) ‘Assessment in Educational Practice: forming pedagogised Identities in the Art Curriculum, pp 147-158, Art Education in a Postmodern World: Collected Essays, ISSN 1747-6208
(2007) ‘A Critical Reading for the National Curriculum for Art in the Light of Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity’, pp 137-145, Art Education in a Postmodern World: Collected Essays, ISSN 1747-6208
(2006) ‘Asessment in Educational Practice’ in Assessment and Art Education (Ed) Rayment, T. Bristol: Intellect Books (published Spring 2006)
(2005) ‘Assessment and the Forming of Pedagogised identities in the Art Curriculum,’ in Postmodernism and Art Education (Ed) Hardy, T. Bristol: Intellect Books (published Summer 2005)
(2005) ‘A Critical Reading of the national Curriculum for Art’ in Postmodernism and Art Education, (Ed) Hardy, T. Bristol: Intellect Books (published Summer 2005)
(2003) ‘Forming Teacher identities in Initial Teacher Education’ in Issues in Art and Design Teaching (Eds) Addison, N. & Burgess, L. London: RoutledgeFalmer pp.188-1998 ISBN0-415-26669-6
(2002) ‘Art in Education: Identity and the Pedagogised Other’. Chapter in Art Education Discourses Vol. 2 pp.97-113 ARTicle Press UCE Birmingham. ISBN 1.873352.87.5
Academic Journal Articles
(2011) Contemporary Art and Art in Education: The New Emancipation and Truth. International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 30 No. 3 ISSN 1476-8062
(2008) Pedagogy Against the State. International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 27 No.3. pp.226-240. ISSN 1476-8062
(2008) ‘Pedagogy Against the State: Some remarks upon events of learning.’ Access: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Culture and Policy Studies, Vol. 26.2 pp. 47-57. ISSN 0111 8889
(2007) ‘What is Art Education? New Narratives of Learning.’ Educational Philosophy And Theory ISSN 0013-1857
(2006) ‘School Art Education: Mourning the Past and Looking for a Future.’ The International Journal of Art and Design Education Vol. 25, No. 1 pp.17-28 ISSN 1476-8062
‘Theorising How Student Teachers Form Their identities in Initial Teacher Education.’ British Educational Research Journal Vol. 30, No. 3 pp.379-394 ISSN 0141-1926
(2001) ‘Assessment in Educational Practice: Forming Pedagogised Identities in the Art Curriculum.’ International Journal of Art and Design Education Vol. 20. No. 1 pp.96-108 ISSN 0260 9991
(2001) ‘Teachers, Students and Drawings: Extending Discourses of Visuality.’ Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education , Vol. 22. No. 1. ISSN 0159 6306
(1999) ‘A Critical Reading of the National Curriculum for Art. Journal of Art and Design Education. ‘Directions’ Vol. 13, No. 1.pp.107-113 ISSN 0260 9991
(1998) ‘Is a Pupil’s Drawing Ability a Natural Talent or a Product of Particular Discourses?’ Drawing Fire: The Journal of the National association for Fine Art education. Vol. 2, No. 3. pp.24-29 ISSN 1358-0973
(1998) ‘Charisma, Competence and Teacher Education’ with A. Moore. Discourse, Vol. 19, No. 2.pp.171-182 ISSN 0159-6306
(1998) ‘The Cultural Production of Drawing Ability’. International Journal of Inclusive Education. Vol. 2. No. 1. pp.45-54 ISSN 1360-3116
(1998) ‘The Production of the pupil as a subject within the Art Curriculum’. Journal of Curriculum Studies. Vol. 30 No. 1. pp.27-42
(1996) ‘Let’s Look at The Drawing’ (1996) Chreods 10 Manchester Metropolitan University. ISSN 1350-6781
(1995) ‘Discourse and Practice in the Art Curriculum and the Production of the Pupil as a Subject.’ Journal of Art and Design Education. Vol. 14, No. 3. pp.259-270 ISSN 0260-9991
(1994) ‘How particular Lacanian Notions Might be Helpful for Evaluating Profiles of Teacher Competences and Supervising Students on Their Teaching Practice’ with A. Moore. Chreods 8, Manchester Metropolitan University. ISSN 1350-6781
(1991) ‘How Children Use Drawing’ Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 10, No. 1. pp.57-72.ISSN 0260-9991
(1990) ‘A Hermeneutic Approach to Comprehending the Significance Children Give to Their Drawings’
(1990) Chreods 4, Manchester Metropolitan University. ISSN 1350-6781