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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Call for Papers: Asia Pacific Journal for Arts Education, Special issue on “Current Issues, Trends and Practices in Drama/Theatre Education: Perspectives from the Asia Pacific and Beyond”

We invite contributions for a special issue of Asia Pacific Journal for Arts Education that explores current issues, trends and practices in drama/theatre education in the context of recent educational reforms, global economic crisis, and the formulation of the Seoul Agenda for Arts in Education. While perspectives from the Asia Pacific will be the main focus, we welcome submissions from other educational jurisdictions beyond the region.

Example of topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Programs and degrees in drama/theatre education

• Drama/theatre in the broader curriculum

• Drama/theatre in educational, community and social Contexts

• Implementation examples and issues

• Evaluation and assessment

• Good practice examples

• Industry-university (or university-university) partnerships

• Curriculum development in drama/theatre education

• Pedagogical issues

• Research perspectives for drama/theatre education.

Reference to UNESCO’s Seoul Agenda may be found at http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41117&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Manuscripts of about 6000 words should be prepared in conformity with the APA style. Articles should be submitted as e-mail attachments, using Microsoft Word format. Please note that all correspondence will be conducted by e-mail. Full paper submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2011; please email articles to Samuel Leong <sleong@ied.edu.hk>.

All papers will be blind reviewed.

Authors will be notified about the status of their submissions during the week of May 6, 2012. The final manuscript revisions of accepted submissions (complete with rights, permissions for images, etc.) must be received no later than June 2, 2012.

Special Issue Editor: Samuel Leong

Consultant Editor: Larry O’Farrell

Please direct questions regarding submissions to: eyltse@ied.edu.hk

“Expanding Our Vision for the Arts in Education”

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review (HER) is planning an upcoming Special Issue themed Expanding our Vision for the Arts in Education. This Special Issue intends to push beyond traditional understandings of arts teaching and learning to consider how education in and through the arts best suits the sophisticated demands of today’s students within the complex social and political landscapes that they inhabit.

Expanding our Vision for the Arts in Education will bring together the voices of practitioners, researchers, and youth who engage in innovative arts learning. In so doing, this issue will provide a launch-pad for ideas that will push the boundaries of what arts education looks like (or may look like) in our current educational ecosystem. Specifically, HERinvites authors to submit proposals for manuscripts that address the ways in which high quality arts learning experiences of various forms can be successfully implemented to drive the learning and engagement of 21st century young people and adults in schools, through after-school programs, in formal and informal learning environments, and online in the digital world.

HER is in search of submissions that focus on the arts in education through a variety of lenses. Amongst these lenses are:

The lens of emerging arts mediums/disciplines—that considers how new and emerging arts mediums/disciplines (e.g.: digital art, media art, Hip Hop, film, video, digital animation, etc.), which may have long histories themselves, are just now beginning to extend the boundaries of the traditional arts education cannon;
The lens of traditional arts mediums/disciplines—that considers how traditional arts mediums/disciplines (e.g.: visual art, music, theatre, dance, and creative writing) can be applied in educational settings to directly address the needs of 21st century young people and adults;
The lens of web 2.0—that considers the relationship between arts education and open-source technology, gaming, social networking sites, and other aspects of online culture that influence student learning and youth development;
The lenses of mind-brain-education and Universal Design for Learning—that consider the arts as a vehicle uniquely capable of facilitating the cognitive and social development of learners whose individual differences are inadequately capitalized upon in traditional curriculum, and whose neurophysiology is evolving alongside the expansion of digital technology;
The lens of globalization—that considers how arts education can be employed to create dialogue in our increasingly more diversified, cross-cultural, and politicized world;
The lens of community empowerment and cultural organizing—that considers how arts education may be employed in a world challenged by unprecedented population growth, barriers to social mobility, and unequal distributions of power and wealth.

For this Special Issue of HER we are looking for four different types of submissions:

Scholarly Articles including (but not limited to) original research based on empirical studies and theoretical essays grounded in literature. Maximum 9,000 words. For complete author guidelines and submission instructions direct your browser to: http://www.hepg.org/page/172

Proposal Deadline (Maximum 500 Words): February 3, 2012.
Target Response Date: March 1, 2012.
Final Deadline for Invited Manuscripts: August 1, 2012.
Target Publication Date: Spring 2013.

Cross-Generational Dialogues between emerging arts education researchers/practitioners and established field leaders. Maximum 6,000 words. For complete author guidelines and submission instructions direct your browser to:http://www.hepg.org/page/173

Proposal Deadline (Maximum 500 Words): February 3, 2012.
Target Response Date: March 1, 2012.
Final Deadline for Invited Manuscripts: August 1, 2012.
Target Publication Date: Spring 2013.

Reflective Essays and Narratives from practitioners (teaching artists, arts educators, arts specialists, general classroom teachers, teacher educators, practicing artists, arts and innovation entrepreneurs, school leaders, arts administrators, community organizers, religious leaders, coaches, etc.). Maximum 3,000 words. For complete author guidelines and submission instructions direct your browser to: http://www.hepg.org/page/177

Proposal Deadline (Maximum 500 Words): February 3, 2012.
Target Response Date: March 1, 2012.
Final Deadline for Invited Manuscripts: August 1, 2012.
Target Publication Date: Spring 2013.

Digital Media Submissions In addition to our standard print format, we will also be considering digital content that is pertinent to the theme of Expanding our Vision for the Arts in Education. This content may exemplify any of the topic areas listed above or act as support material for the manuscripts appearing in the print version of the Special Issue. For complete author guidelines and submission instructions direct your browser to: http://www.hepg.org/page/175

Proposal Deadline (Maximum 500 Words): February 3, 2012.
Target Response Date: March 1, 2012.
Final Deadline for Invited Digital Media: August 1, 2012.
Target Media Launch Date: Spring 2013.

NOTE: A separate call for stories from children, youth, and adult arts learners will be released in early 2012.

About the Harvard Educational Review: The Harvard Educational Review is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. Its mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about education's most vital issues for a generalist audience. Our contributors and subscribers represent fields as diverse as educational administration, teaching, psychology, history, philosophy, sociology, economics, government, and public policy. For more information about HER, please visit our website: www.hepg.org/main/her/Index.html

The UNESCO Observatory journal for multi-disciplinary research in the arts is currently calling for papers for it next issue Artography (deadline 31st April 2012).

The Guest Editors are Dr. Rita Irwin, Professor of Art Education and Associate Dean, Teacher Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Dr. Anita Sinner, Assistant Professor of Art Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/pdf/UNESCO%20CALL%20FOR%20PAPERS%20DEC%202011MDRA%20-%20Artography.pdf

Please direct questions to:

Lindy Joubert  Director, UNESCO Observatory on Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts  Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning The University of Melbourne  Tel: +61 3 8344 7437 Fax: +61 3 8344 5532 

4. International Conference on Education, Samos Island, Greece, 05-07 July, 2012

The next International ICE conference will be held in Samos Island, 05-07 July, 2012. On behalf of the organizing committee I like to invite you to present a paper. For details please see http://www.ineag.gr/ice/index.php

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