CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

River Publishers Series in Innovation and Change in Education - Cross-cultural Perspective

SPECIAL ISSUE

Arts-based methods in education around the world

Editors:
Tatiana Chemi tc@learning.aau.dk
Xiangyun Du xiangyun@learning.aau.dk

Aims

This thematic volume aims at exploring the relationship between the arts and learning in a number of educational contexts and across cultures. The focused topic looks at how arts-based interventions are conceived, designed, carried on and assessed in different educational and cultural contexts. We encourage a large variety of approaches and methods. We aim at collecting contributions from all over the world, in cross-cultural, multicultural, pluralist perspectives.

Scope

This volume encourages contributions worldwide in (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Formal educational settings
• Primary education (arts-integration, STEAM, cultural expeditions)
• Secondary education (arts-integration, STEAM, cultural expeditions)
• Higher education (leadership development, creative teaching methods, medical training, humanities and engineering training, professional development)
• Informal learning settings (museum learning, arts-based museum interventions,school/artist partnerships, cultural institution/school partnership, cultural learning entrepreneurship)
• Organisational learning settings (organisational aesthetics in professional training)

This volume will be published as a special issue of the book series  ‘innovation and change in education - cross–cultural perspectives' by River publisher.
http://www.riverpublishers.com/series.php?msg=Innovation_and_Change_in_Education_-_Cross-cultural_Perspective. ISSN: 2246-3984

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Editorial guidelines

• Each full manuscript has a length of 6-9000 words including references.
• Images copyright documentations are requested for all figures in your chapters that might needed.
• Short file with your Author Biosketch (10-12 lines) ending with postal address and e-mail address should be included at the end of each full manuscript.
• Each contribution shall include ABSTRACT (150 words) and 5 KEYWORDS for your chapter.
• Authors of each contribution shall be responsible for the proof reading of their own manuscripts.

Timelines for this special issue:

• Abstracts (150-300 words) in by Dec 15th, 2016 submitted to Xiangyun Du Xiangyun@learning.aau.dk and Tatiana Chemi tc@learning.aau.dk
• Acceptance notice by January15th, 2016
• Complete manuscripts submitted by April 15th, 2017
• Reviews and new versions by June 15th, 2017
• Online publication September2017

Editors bio:

Tatiana Chemi, PhD, is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Chair of Educational Innovation, where she works in the field of artistic learning and creative processes, a field that she specifically focused on during postdoc research at the Danish School of Education. She has been involved in research projects examining artistic creativity, arts-integrated educational designs in schools and the role of emotions in learning. She is the author of many published articles and reports and is also the author of Artbased Approaches. A Practical Handbook to Creativity at Work (2006), FokusForlag; In the Beginning Was the Pun: Comedy and Humour in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre (2013), Aalborg University Press; The Art of Arts Integration (2014), Aalborg University Press and with Jensen, J. B. &Hersted, L. (2015), Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity, Frankfurt, Peter Lang. In 2013, Aalborg University Press named her Author of the Year. Her research and publishing projects are currently focused on theatre laboratories pedagogies and co-creative learning environments in the arts.

Xiangyun Du (杜翔云), Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Learning and Philosophy and director of the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. She is also an adjunct professor at Beijing Normal University and at China Medical University. Her main research interests include innovative teaching and learning in education, particularly, problem-based and project-based learning methods in fields ranging from engineering, medicine and health, and foreign language education, to diverse social, cultural and educational contexts. She has also engaged with educational institutions in over 10 countries in substantial work on pedagogy development in teaching and learning. Professor Du has over 130 relevant international publications including monographs, international journal papers, edited books and book chapters, as well as conference contributions. She has also been actively involved in a number of international academic programs, networks,  and editorial works for journals. Currently she is also (co)editing book series for PalGrave and RIVER publishers.