Communities of practice and constellations

This presentation by Dr Abbie Cairns explores the role of communities of practice for artist-teachers in adult community learning.

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Beyond Accreditation: Advocating for lifelong learning through community arts education

In this presentation, Anne Reardon-James argues in favour of continued funding and support for informal and nonformal courses in the community, such as the arts.

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Life drawing, life learning - a practice

In this presentation Lina Ivanova and Victoria Louise Doyle deconstruct their experience of life drawing to try and understand its impact on the process of learning, teaching and practicing.

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Creative ESOL

In this presentation, Natalie Parfitt shares a Creative ESOL course for women who are new to the UK, some have moved here as partners of refugees and some are alone.

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Observation of the art-making developments in adults with disabilities by an artist-teacher in Singapore

In this presentation, Ranae Lee-Nasir reflects on the development of adults with disabilities over twenty years and now envisions how to create more person-centred art-making experiences.

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Transforming into an Artist-Teacher in ACL: A constructed substantive theory

The presentation presents a theory on how individuals become artist-teachers in adult community learning (ACL) in the UK by Abbie Cairns, Artist Teacher and Founder of ATACL conference

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Crafting communities; How creative textiles can be used as a platform to develop meaningful communication and foster wellbeing.

Creative textiles workshops can act as an inclusive and welcoming space for participants. Through the activity of knitting in a collective space people can feel a sense of community and safety, which can be utilised to foster wellbeing and social cohesion.…

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Values versus conflicts as an artist-teacher-researcher in ACL

This presentation outlines Catherine Ross' values as an artist-teacher-researcher and associated conflicts

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Power to Placemaking: How does the autonomy of Further Education encourage Artist-Teachers to work with local community projects?

Further Education creates opportunities to design engaging projects that widen access to the benefits of the Arts. Inclusive projects are allowing us to exhibit new examples of Placemaking.

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Sustaining and growing subject passion: What can be learnt from the artist teacher?

We began teaching our subjects to pass on our knowledge and passion, but with our busy daily working and personal lives we sometimes forget to ‘feed’ the very fire that began all those years ago. When the pedagogy and syllabus knowledge begin to embed,…

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‘Those Mics Were Meant to be Open’. To What Extent Can Open Mic Methodology Bring People Together?

A ‘poem-as-presentation’ or ‘PowerPoem’ experiment by Pip McDonald, Senior Learning Technology Project Officer at the Royal Agricultural University.

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