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We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Arts Based Educational Research SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years. 

Role & responsibilities of SIG Convenors:

• Plan & oversee SIG activities, potentially delivering an annual programme of activity
• Engage members and encourage participation
• Represent SIG members (not personal views)
• Ensure compliance with ½¿É«µ¼º½ policies
• Work with ½¿É«µ¼º½ staff for support and delivery.

ABER practitioners research and communicate using various arts-based methods and methodologies, including autobiography, narrative, poetry, visual arts, drama, dance, music, and performance. The rapidly growing body of ABER literature and practitioner knowledge directly addresses art concepts as research, the nature of knowing and learning aesthetically, and the processes of making and using art for generating and communicating learning and knowledge.

The ABER SIG provides a forum for theorists and practitioners in the arts, education, and other fields to discuss, share, and reflect on illuminating and problematic arts-based research practices and outcomes. It also serves as a focal point for other parties and individuals interested in ABER who have not yet ventured into this domain. It welcomes and encourages transdisciplinary knowledge creation in business and policy studies, the social sciences and the humanities. This SIG examines arts and social science research genres and their similarities and differences. It advocates for using arts-based methods of disseminating educational and human science research. It recognises ABER as an inclusive, democratic, participatory ethical inquiry.

Research interests:

• Promoting inclusion in arts education practice and access to arts education.
• Providing a forum for teacher-researchers within the arts to share practice and to contribute to the culture and community of arts education research.
• Promoting the value of arts education and its impact on wellbeing and development by sharing high-quality research from our diverse membership.
• Encouraging educational researchers and practitioners who are not involved in arts education to explore how the arts can inspire innovative research and teaching across fields, disciplines, and contexts.

Please click on apply now to proceed

You must be a fully paid up ½¿É«µ¼º½ member to apply and serve as a convenor

As part of our wider commitment to greater equality and diversity at all levels of the organisation, we continue to seek increased representation from members with a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background. In acknowledging the structural inequalities and unjust power imbalances that affect our members, we wish to be proactive in addressing this within our own structures.

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