Past event Part of series: Arts Based Educational Research SIG Webinar Series
Artful Leadership – transforming leadership through playful and artistic thinking and doing
Dedicated to research with and by leaders shaping the educational landscape, this webinar emphasises using the arts to understand and shape leadership strategies and policy dialogue and frameworks to enhance educational outcomes and equity. Case studies from research and scholarship will focus on arts-based knowing and educational leadership practice.
This webinar appraises the significant role of the arts can play in understanding and influencing leadership strategies, as well as policy dialogue and frameworks. By integrating artistic perspectives and methodologies, the research case studies presented in the webinar aims to foster a deeper comprehension of the complexities and nuances involved in educational leadership and policy-making, and explores how Arts Based Education Research can promote innovative thinking and creative problem-solving. Approaching leadership artfully enables leaders to conceptualize and implement strategies that can lead to improved educational outcomes and greater equity. The webinar calls for a re-evaluation of leadership paradigms, advocating for leadership that is inclusive, exploratory, and ethically grounded in social, economic and ecological justice. It challenges leaders to embrace uncertainty, take risks, and cultivate a nurturing environment where creativity can flourish, paving the way for transformative, justice-centered sustainable change.
Artful Leadership is the third of three webinars which will present how Arts Based Educational Research offers a deep exploration of how the arts profoundly impact educational research, influencing personal and societal transformation across global contexts. These webinars will be a sharing of academic research and a call to action urging creativity for social change through the arts. They invite the audience into a conversation about the transformative role of the arts in educational research, inspiring action across diverse landscapes. Speakers will also presents a practical toolkit of advice for researchers wishing to include ABER in their practice. The webinars draw on material from the forthcoming Handbook of Arts-Based Educational Research (Bloomsbury). The presenters of the webinars (in calendar order: Rebecca Berkley, Adam Hart and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan) are part of the editorial team of this handbook.
As part of a series, the other two events can be found here:
Draft Programme
04:00pm Welcome and Introduction; Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, University of
Nottingham
04:05pm Creative Wayfinding as Arts-Based Method: Embodying a Transformative
Artful Leadership Praxis; Anna CohenMiller, Nord University; Nadia Dresscher-
Lambertus, Utrecht University, University of Aruba; and Nupur Samuel, OP
Jindal Global University
04:25pm Arts-based knowing and education leadership and management practice;
Inbanathan Naicker, University of KwaZulu-Natal
04:45pm Discussion and questions
04:55pm Closing remarks; Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, University of Nottingham
05:00pm Close Event
Full Professor at Nord University
Anna CohenMiller, PhD, is a transnational arts-based methodologist, TEDx speaker, and award-winning educational leader and author. She seeks to create accessible texts and practices for anyone, anywhere looking to center justice-centered...
Lecturer at Utrecht University
Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher at the department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at University of Utrecht, and a part-time teacher at University of Aruba at Faculty of Arts and Science. She is also a...
OP JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA
Nupur Samuel is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Writing Studies, O P Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Her research interests include writing pedagogy, inclusive education, critical thinking, English language assessment, gender...
Academic at University of KwaZulu-Natal
Inbanathan (Inba) Naicker, is an Associate Professor and a National Research Foundation-rated researcher in Educational Leadership and Management at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His scholarly interests encompass leadership...
Professor at University of Nottingham
Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham. She specialises in professional learning, self-reflexive scholarship and arts-based educational research. Her recent book, Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human...
Lecturer in Music Technology at University of Salford
Dr Adam Hart is a lecturer in music technology at the University of Salford. He has a background in secondary education and audio programming, and his research interests involve creative advocacy through interactive technology. His PhD project...
Associate Professor in Music Education at University of Reading
Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Reading. Her areas of interest are classroom musicianship, choral education, musical leadership and musical cognition. She is the co-director of the Postgraduate...
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