[Commlist] Call for papers: Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy

    Call for papers: Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy


  Special issue: Makings Journal

The theme for this special issue ofMakings 
<https://makingsjournal.com/>is ‘Creative Higher Education: Curriculum 
and Pedagogy’. The aim is to bring together research which explores 
curricula and pedagogies for Art, Design and Media courses, with an 
emphasis on practical arts and media production courses. We welcome 
submissions from emerging researchers and educators with limited 
experience of academic research. We encourage a diverse range of 
submissions from conventional to practice-based contributions (visual, 
video, audio, etc.) for the ‘Studio 
<https://makingsjournal.com/studio/>’ section of the journal.

Despite having an important role to play, the cultural and creative 
industries are among the most effected by the pandemic, resulting in a 
very challenging employment landscape for creative graduates. Over the 
last few years, we have witnessed significant changes in Creative Higher 
Education, specifically for practice-based subjects which have suffered 
from restricted access to resources and facilities. There are a highly 
diverse range of courses linked to the cultural and creative industries 
but there is relatively little knowledge about the pedagogy and 
curriculum offered through these courses (Cunningham and Flew, 2019). 
Inequalities of access to opportunities, digital poverty and ongoing 
insecurities across the cultural and creative industries workforce have 
heightened the need to tackle issues of social justice in the 
curriculum. Saha (2013) argues that a ‘critical multicultural pedagogy’ 
can only be developed through the students’ experience of making and 
engaging in creative processes to produce new narratives.

Art, Design and Media courses have tended to prepare students as 
‘industry-ready’, nurturing enthusiasm for cultural and creative 
industries work, sometimes with less opportunities for critical, ethical 
and socially engaged debates. The current insecurities facing Creative 
Higher Education and the cultural and creative industries sector present 
an opportunity to interrogate current practices and encourage educators 
to engage critically with the future of learning and teaching in Art, 
Design and Media courses. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has further 
problematised the sector, on the one hand demonstrating its 
vulnerability and underlying inequalities (Banks and O’Connor, 2021), 
whilst on the other hand demonstrating levels of agility and innovation 
in the face of lockdowns and economic crisis (Travkina and Sacco, 2020).

This special issue seeks to encourage research-informed teaching 
(curriculum and pedagogy), which explores contemporary debates for Art, 
Design and Media education. An exploration of Creative Higher Education 
Curriculum and Pedagogy could consider the following themes:

  * Sustainability and Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy
  * Social justice and inequalities in Cultural and Creative Sectors
  * Research informed curriculum for practice-based arts and media courses
  * Creative thinking as a pedagogy to address sustainability in the
    curriculum
  * DIY approaches to explore ethical and social justice in the cultural
    and creative industries
  * Creative methodologies for teaching and learning
  * Rethinking pedagogic pathways to creative and cultural work
  * Critical Praxis: pedagogies and curriculums for change
  * Educating in a pandemic: challenges and opportunities

Please submit a 300-word abstract for the journal’s next issue, themed 
*“Creative Higher Education: curriculum & pedagogy”*for a guest edited 
special issue of///Makings/ (https://makingsjournal.com/about-us/) – an 
open-access, peer-reviewed journal on *the cultural and creative 
industries*.Practice-based contributions (or contributions in the form 
of shorter think-pieces, essays, or in various multimedia formats) will 
be published in the /Studio/ (https://makingsjournal.com/studio/)

//section of the journal.For more information please contact Annette 
(Naudinannette.naudin /at/ bcu.ac.uk).__ For more information about the journal 
andcontributor guidelines 
<https://makingsjournal.com/contributor-guidelines/>please checkMakings 
journal <https://makingsjournal.com/>. Please note that the Makings 
Journal does not require payments from the authors.

*Timeline*

Abstracts and acceptances:

  * Submission deadline for abstracts by Monday 21^st March 2022 (send
    to (annette.naudin /at/ bcu.ac.uk))
  * Acceptance by Friday 29^th April 2022

Articles:

  * Final articles / contributions by Monday 4^th July 2022
  * Revised articles / contributions by Monday 5^th September 2022
  * Publication October / November 2022

Writing retreat (online):

There will be an invitation for early career or emerging researchers, 
whose abstracts have been accepted, to take part in an online half day 
writing retreat. This is an opportunity to develop your abstract into a 
full contribution in a supportive environment. The retreat will be 
facilitated by the special issue guest editors. This will take place in 
May 2022, exact date TBC.

*Special issue guest co-editors*

*Dr Emma Agusita*is a Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Production 
and Media Communications at the University of the West of England.Emma 
has a background in creative productionand a longstanding interest in 
the use of creative and media practices for social justice and civic 
participation.Her research interests include Creative and Participatory 
Pedagogies, Critical Visual Methodologies, Media Education and Creative 
Enterprise Education.

*Dr Annette Naudin*isAssociate Professor with responsibility for 
Learning and Teachingat Birmingham Institute for Media and 
English.Annette is interested in the relationship between creative work 
and Higher Education curriculum and pedagogy. Annette has led a number 
of impactful research projects exploring cultural and creative 
industries work, cultural policy and inequality in the sector, working 
with organisations such as Arts Connect UK and Birmingham City Council. 
Annette is an Erasmus funded visiting Professor at the Latvian Cultural 
Academy.


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