Colloquia Art Education Colloquia provide informal opportunities for dialogue between staff, research students and professionals from the field of art education, with visiting scholars and staff on issues related to current research in art education.
Colloquia follow a standard form.
An invited speaker opens with a 20-30 minute address, to be followed, after refreshments, by an hour of discussion. Forums address topical and controversial issues in visual arts education and in arts education in general. As part of our commitment to professional development Forums extend a public platform to art educators, who through conflicts of interest with employers or industrial associations might otherwise be denied a voice in debates related to their practice. While every effort is made to represent a balance of opinion in Forums, the School of Art Education encourages faculty and students in the public advocacy of their views. In this context Forums advance an image of the art educator as a politically responsible agent of change.