This is a Call for Papers for a panel session that is being proposed by the MeCCSA Practice Network to the organisers of the MeCCSA 2023 conference Glasgow Caledonian University on 4-6th September 2023. If your paper is selected to be part of the panel by the Practice Network committee, it will then be included in a combined panel proposal that the committee will subsequently submit to the MeCCSA conference organisers.
The MeCCSA Practice Network invites contributions on practice pedagogy that seek to ignite debate around the notion of a critical pedagogy, to celebrate innovative pedagogic practice, and to explore emerging challenges for practice educators in this age of connectivity. We welcome submissions aligned either with the conference theme or any area covered by MeCCSA and its networks.
“There is something happening here, but we don’t know what it is” (Bob Dylan)
As practice educators we will likely be familiar with the struggle to pedagogically define our field within institutions of higher education that are more often recognised for what might be thought of as traditional modes of academic practice. There are even misunderstandings around practice pedagogy within our own community. In this age of connectivity, when the distinctions between consumers and producers is increasingly blurred. Do our ways of thinking about pedagogy reflect the conditions of possibility for a practice education that is research informed and which reflects the new technological landscape.
We are particularly keen to see submissions that address any of the following or related topics listed below though this is merely indicative and is non-exclusive:
- The shifting sands of what constitutes a practice discipline
- Managing expectations against realities in the context of NSS
- Methods of production vs methods of research
- New pedagogies for new practices
- Independent production vs industrial production
- Live, as live and simulated practices
- Qualities vs practicalities of practice in creativity education
- Articulating the skills of practice in a learning context
- Co-creating the practice curriculum with students
We invite you to submit proposals in the form of a 250 word abstract, contact details, affiliation and short 150 word biography.
Please email your submission to roy.hanney@solent.ac.uk by by 20th January 2023.
The MeCCSA 2023 annual conference will take place at Glasgow Caledonian University on 4-6th September 2023.
https://www.meccsa.org.uk/events/conference/
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