Time

Room G1.04

Room G2.02

9.00

Coffee and Registration

9.30

Welcome

10.00

Christine Nicholls

The Australian Aboriginal visual art of the Central and Western Deserts: A comparative approach

Miranda Free

Primary focus: A partnership model for artists in schools

10.30

Adele Flood

Interpreting and enacting teaching from an arts based learning perspective

Karen Maras

Age-related shifts in the theoretical constraints underlying children’s critical reasoning in art

11.00

Wendy Ramsay

Connecting to contemporary practices: The MOVING IMAGE in Visual Art teaching and learning programs

Susan Paterson

From art sceptic to artist

11.30

Coffee

12.00

Karen King

Practice and practical reasoning in the Visual Arts classroom

Linda Knight

Drawing together as inclusive practice in early years learning

12.30

Althea Francini

Explanation and the arts as practices

Joanna Barbousas

The formation of visual as concept and practice in Art Education

1.00

Kerry Thomas

How should the Visual Arts be represented in the Australian curriculum?

Robert Brown

Mapping and augmenting engagement, learning and cultural citizenship for children undertaking workshops with artists at ArtPlay

1.30

Lunch

2.00

2.30

Bernard Hoffert

Seeing as a way of knowing: The relationship between observation and meaning

Julie Robson and Luke Jaaniste

Growing future innovators

3.00

Frances Alter

Can images be texts? Visual literacy, culture and thinking in educational contexts

Marnee Watkins and Gina Grant

Finding the ‘spaces’ for teaching in and through art

3.30

Wesley Imms

The International Creative Boy Initiative: Issues associated with developing international research opportunities

Elizabeth Holdsworth

Shifting early childhood teachers’ pedagogical practices and beliefs: Enhancing teachers’ skills, efficacy and advocacy in Visual Art Education

4.00

Conclusion