Faculty members
The Art Education department's full-time and part-time faculty explore all aspects of the teaching of art, from education in schools and universities, to bringing art to the community, to effecting social and personal change.
Full-time
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Qualitative and studio-based research methods in art education, art-based ethics, thesis writing, teacher identity, teacher training, youth culture, visual culture, popular culture, photography, arts-based learning, body image, qualitative methods, pedagogy, higher education, teachers in popular culture, outsider/folk art, censorship -
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complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies -
aesthetic development, museum education, arts-based learning, museology, viewer response, adult education, expert/non-expert, contemporary art, visual arts, public art, new media, exhibition, museum educator training, art practice, appreciation of art, artist residencies, qualitative methods -
teacher training, arts-based learning, critical thinking, creativity, aesthetic development, perception, psychosocial risk, cinema, visual representation, evolutionary psychology, juvenalia, gestalt perception, cross-cultural aesthetic response, ethnography, child development, youth development, models of graphic development, teacher identity, gifted children -
artwork scholarship, arts research, a/r/tography, arts-based pedagogies, international art education, history of education, material culture, life writing, social fiction, spatial design of classrooms, curriculum theory, sociology of education, community art education, and pre-service and in-service teacher education -
performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment -
Kathleen Vaughan
Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
Professor, Art Education
Co-Director, Textiles and Materiality cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics, interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland -
Vivek Venkatesh
UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance
Professor, Inclusive Practices in Visual Arts, Art Education
Creator, Grimposium
Director, Project SOMEONE (Social Media Education Every Day)
Co-Founder, Landscape of Hate
Co-Founder, Landscape of Hope
radicalization, hate speech, public pedagogies, youth engagement, research-creation, social media, performance
