Higher Education Division: NAEA24 Call for Abstracts

Extended Submission Deadline: December 11, 2023

The Higher Education Division of the National Art Education Association is proud to announce two opportunities to present your scholarly work and ideas in person at the 2024 NAEA National Convention, taking place April 4-6, in Minneapolis, MN.

We are organizing two thematic Higher Education Division Forums to advance critical discussions on relevant topics to higher educators.

If selected in a blind-peer reviewed process, presenters will participate in one of the two Higher Education Division Forums held at the convention:

• Forum #1: Contemporary Developments in Art Education Preservice Preparation: Policy, Curriculum, and Practice

• Forum #2: Unique and Probing Research in the Field: Pushing Limits of What We Know and Do

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

FORUM #1

Contemporary Developments in Art Education Preservice Preparation: Policy, Curriculum, and Practice

Facilitators: Dr. Christina Bain, Dr. Hazel Bradshaw-Beaumont, Dr. Hayon Park

As the educational landscape shifts, the purpose of this panel is to provide a broad snapshot of how changes in policy, curriculum trends, course offerings, teacher and teacher education program recruitment and retention, degree program structure, licensure requirements, field and clinical experience, mentoring, public perception of education, and post pandemic practices are impacting art teacher preparation and PK-12 school needs across the U.S., and the triad of the student teacher/teacher candidate, supervising practitioner/cooperating teacher, and college supervisor. Even prior to the pandemic, many PK-12 school districts were experiencing teacher shortages, however the pandemic has been responsible for further increase in shortages. University art education programs across the U.S. are investigating ways to change and adapt their programs to better meet the needs at the K-12 level, but these changes come with varied opinion and critique. The expected outcome is to invite art educators, particularly those in higher education, to become aware of urgent and growing issues in teacher preparation, to become more aware of current trends, and to better meet the current needs of PK-12 schools by considering ways to rethink practices.

FORUM #2

Unique and Probing Research in the Field: Pushing Limits of What We Know and Do

Facilitators: Dr. Dustin Garnet and Dr. Sohee Koo

In an effort to bring attention to unique and probing research in our field, a multi-speaker panel will address research topics. Panelists will be selected who represent a broad range of themes, representing uncommon or unordinary approaches to evidence based research. After panel presentations, attendees will meet with a panelist of their choice to further discuss the research and future study. Attendees will be asked to think outside of the norm, be inquisitive, and explore new trends and directions in art education research. While extensive research on normative topics is important to art education, so is it important to ponder the yet unknown futures of the field of art education, the future of our schools, and the adaptations that students, schools, and humanity will or may have to make in future decades. With most professions looking to the coming future, so must art education. As creative intellectuals, arts based researchers can offer a unique perspective on themes and topics of research that might be outside of the norm. Evidence based research at its best builds upon previous research and attempts to push forward to the next level of discovery or calls out errors in study and judgment. This session will ask attendees to examine, explore, and imagine or reimagine varying futures in our field. All too often, some researchers struggle to decide upon themes or contexts for study that motivate them and continue to engage their explorative minds, over and over again. Many researchers can tend to settle on researching common topics, and while that is important in our field, this unique topical panel will inspire attendees to arrive at a place of study that excites them, engages their imaginative thought processes, or discusses topics that may have once been uncommon or uncomfortable to publicly discuss. The research of all panelists will elevate art education to a new place of discovery and practice.

Presentation Details

We invite participants to give 10-minute presentations reporting unique and probing research efforts and discoveries. Following initial presentations, speakers and session attendees will participate in an open dialogue to further explore dynamic topics and directions for future research. This forum aims to have researchers as panelists and to draw out the voices and firsthand experiences of those examining the often unexamined, with the goal of creating space for a productive discussion on contemporary issues and nuanced perspectives benefitting the future of our field. Presented research can be peer-reviewed and published or need not be peer-reviewed and published. This session will take place in person only. There will be no virtual options for participation.

How to Submit

To apply to be a panelist in one of these forums, we invite researchers and practitioners to use the following procedure:

1. Create an abstract (no more than 300 words and with a title) offering a clear and coherently written explication of perspectives, methods, and/or findings relevant to the following questions:

   • To which forum (#1 Preservice Preparation or #2 Probing Research) does your topic best relate?
   • What question, problem, hypothesis, or project related to the forum topics above do you wish to address?
   • What data or examples/phenomena do you wish to share during the panel discussion?

2. Email the completed abstract to the appropriate NAEA Higher Education Division leader (listed below) no later than 11:59pm ET, Monday, December 11, 2023. In the email subject head, clearly state “HE Forum for NAEA.“

• Abstracts for FORUM #1: Contemporary Developments in Art Education Preservice Preparation: Policy, Curriculum, and Practice should be sent to Trina Harlow, trina.harlow@unt.edu

• Abstracts for FORUM #2: Unique and Probing Research in the Field: Pushing Limits of What We Know and Do should be sent to Yichien Cooper, ycooper@wsu.edu

Selection Process

Members of the NAEA Higher Education Division Leadership Team will perform a blind review of the submissions. Selected participants will be notified of their acceptance no later than December 17, 2023. The final format and length of presentations for each HE Forum will be determined by the Regional Directors (forum facilitators) based on the number of selected abstracts. The Regional Directors will correspond with selected presenters regarding session format after acceptances are sent out by Dr. Harlow and Dr. Cooper.

Questions?

Contact Dr. Trina Harlow, Higher Education Division Director, at trina.harlow@unt.edu, or any member of the Higher Education Division Leadership Team with questions.

• Yichien Cooper, Director-Elect, ycooper@wsu.edu
  
• Sohee Koo, Eastern Region, soheekoo@umass.edu
  
• Hazel Bradshaw-Beaumont, Eastern Region, hbeaumont@desu.edu
  
• Hayon Park, Southeastern Region, hpark56@gmu.edu
  
• Christina Bain, Western Region, chrisbain@austin.utexas.edu
  
• Dustin Garnet, Pacific Region, dgarnet2@calstatela.edu