Press
Release, May 20, 2014
Cheryl L. McLean invited to deliver keynote address for Acadia University Summer
Institute Conference
Navigating Tides of Challenge and Change
with Creative Arts in Research and Practice
July 4,
2014 at Acadia University, Cheryl L. McLean will challenge educators to
navigate the tides of challenge and change through creativity, research and arts based approaches.
Several key questions will be addressed in this
presentation:
How do we engage today's teachers and educational leaders in contemporary thinking that positions
creativity at the centre of curriculum? How can today's educators help offer solutions and navigate the tides
of challenge and change with creative arts in research and practice? What are topical examples of the creative
arts in interdisciplinary research and practice currently making a difference
in education and in programmes for community change?
Cheryl
L. McLean is a leading
contributor to the field of the creative arts in interdisciplinary research and
practice, an educator, publisher, author and speaker, publisher of The
International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP
and editor of the CAIP Research series and books, Creative Arts in
Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change (2010), Creative
Arts for Community and Cultural Change (2011), Creative Arts in Humane
Medicine, Brush Education, distributed by University of Toronto Press (2014).
Her journal and books feature international contributors exploring the
intersections of the arts across disciplines in research in education, for
social change and in healthcare transforming and broadening the way we think
about the arts and creativity in education and practice for community and
cultural change and in enhancing quality of life. She is also a trained actor
and ethnodramatist. Cheryl McLean will be teaching the course Problems in Education, Research in
Creativity for the M.Ed Curriculum Studies Program summer, 2014 at Acadia
University.
She has been a
featured keynote speaker, performer and facilitator for diverse groups among
them The University of British Columbia/Okanagan Faculty of Creative and
Critical Studies, The Alberta Psychiatric Association, McGill Medical School,
American Medical Students' Association, Canadian Association of Schools of
Social Work, Congress of the Humanities and has taught the course Creative
Responses to Death and Bereavement at The University of Western Ontario,
London. Among her esteemed colleagues are leaders in creativity and education
in Canada such as Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Calgary and Associate Editor
of the first two books in the CAIP Research Series. She is honoured to return to
Acadia University, once again to teach and present the keynote address for the
Acadia University Summer Institute. In October 2012 she delivered the keynote
address for the emerging Arts Based Research Network at Acadia made up of the
Faculties of Arts, Professional Studies and Science.
More information http://www.CherylMcLean.com
CherylMcLean7007@gmail.com
