Manuscripts due: March 11, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contemporaneity on Arts Education

Special issue

 
Editors

Fernando Hernández, University of Barcelona, Spain

José Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

Manuela Terrasêca, University of Porto, Portugal

The journal ESC – Educação, Sociedade & Culturas [Education, Society and Cultures] will dedicate a special edition to Contemporaneity on Arts Education. Thinking about the place of artistic practices in education implies a political position engaged with the possibility of generating spaces of resistance that go against naturalized modes of being, seeing and acting in Arts Education practices and research. This special edition of the journal provides an opportunity for questioning, enlargement, and renovation of further perspectives of action and research in Arts Education, in its intimate relations with the contemporary. The discourse of the presence of the arts in education can not continue to be based on a supposed need of the arts, which converges in narratives of ‘salvation through art’. But also, the methodologies taken in research have to be under scrutiny. It is the complexity and specificity of artistic practices that provide the arguments that surround the field of Arts Education as a field of knowledge production, not closed within the disciplinary arenas of education or art. Our aim it is not to construct a safe land for arts education, but rather to assume that only in transgressing comfortable practices we can go beyond the evidences. This call for papers encourages the production of theoretical reflections in which a special attention is given to the contemporary world and the places of difference that Arts Education open. The intention is, in short, to open a space for discussion, and to publish papers relevant to the field of research in arts education, enhancing the possibility of new political strategies and narratives in this field.

Manuscripts should begin with a structured abstract, include up to 5 keywords, and should not exceed 8000 words (for further guidance on submission, see the ESC Webpage. Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published. Articles for consideration must be sent by email attachment (in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format files) to ciie_edicoes@fpce.up.pt.