Event overview
Artist-Teacher Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life
In this Centre for Arts and Learning All For the Arts event, Carol Wilde will discuss the final chapter of her book 'Artist-Teacher Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life' in which she draws on Pen Dalton's work on the gendering of art education to consider the prospect that within the neoliberal education system in England, the subject of art and design may be offered to teachers and students with no expectation of it making an aesthetic difference to their way of being in the world. Responding to arts-based ethnographic research with five art and design teachers in secondary schools in the Midlands and the South-West of England, Carol will propose that artist-teacher practice is a way to enliven ways of being in the art and design classroom and make possible the expectation of an aesthetic life for all human and non-human participants who intra-act within it.
Carol began her career as a playworker before training as an art and design teacher and subsequently spending twelve years teaching in Oxfordshire schools, both formative experiences that influence her outlook today. In 2010 she took up the post of Course Director for MA Arts Practice and Education and the Artist Teacher Scheme at Birmingham School of Art. This role inspired her PhD research into the potential impact of artist-teacher practice in the secondary arty and design classroom. In 2017 she became Postgraduate Programme Lead in the Centre for Teacher Education, University of Warwick and in 2022 she took up the post of Subject Leader for PGCE Art & Design at UCL’s Institute of Education. Her research encompasses the histories and narratives of art and design education, feminist pedagogies for art and design, artist-teacher practice as a playful intervention in classroom relations and threshold concepts for beginning teachers.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Mar 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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