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Keynote Speakers .jpg) Christine Marme Thompson
(Professor, School of Visual Arts, Penn State University) Christine Marmé Thompson is a professor in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State, and coordinates graduate programs in art education. Tina earned her Ph.D. in art education at The University of Iowa in 1985, and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2001. Her research focuses on issues of children's culture and art learning, with particular attention to the social contexts of early childhood art. She is co-editor, with Liora Bresler, of The Arts in Children's Lives: Context, Culture, and Curriculum (2002), editor of The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning (1997), and a section editor and contributor to The International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007). Her writings have also appeared in national and international journals in art and early childhood education, and in numerous edited collections. She is the recipient of the Marilyn Zurmuehlen Award from the Seminar for Research in Art Education (1994) ; the Mary Rouse Award (1995) and the June King McFee Award (2005) from the Women’s Caucus in Art Education ;and the Lowenfeld Award from the National Art Education Association in 2013. She is currently the co-editor of the International Journal of Education and the Arts. (http://www.ijea.org). .jpg) Felicity McArdle (Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University) Felicity McArdle has a long standing interest in the work of teaching, as well as how education works when it comes to matters of equity and social justice. Her focus on the arts has an influence on all areas of her work, and she has published internationally in this field. She is co-editor of Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts: Ways of seeing, which is part of the Routledge Series: Changing Images of Early Childhood. Contributors in this book turn a critical lens on the complexities of pedagogical practices that are derived from a deep consideration of children’s interests, needs and dispositions. Felicity is co-author of the book The Trouble with Play, which is published by Open University Press, and is a radical departure from some of the ideas about play that are held dear by many in early childhood education. Felicity has been a classroom teacher, working with students in before-school settings, Primary schools, and Secondary schools. Later, her interest in preparing quality teachers has taken her to teaching adult learners in pre-service and in-service programs, and she also supervises students completing Higher Degrees (Masters, Ph D, Doctorates). She was Course Coordinator of the Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary programmes at Queensland University of Technology, and led the Faculty of Education process of curriculum renewal, through design, accreditation and implementation of the undergraduate teacher education programs. Felicity is currently Associate Professor with Charles Sturt University, Australia, and also Adjunct Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.  Chien-Ling Lin (Director, The Children's Art Museum in Taipei) Ms Chien-Ling Lin is the Founding Director of Soho Children’s Art Museum in Taipei, Taiwan and Director of Soho Art Education Center. Since 1986, Ms Lin has set up more than 30 Soho Art Education Centers in different cities around the world, including Taiwan, San Francisco (U.S.A.), Shanghai and Chengdu (Mainland China). In 2003, Ms Lin established Soho Children’s Art Museum in Taipei and in 2004, she was presented the Culture and Creative Industry Award by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. Her work was adapted in the project titled “Art in Daily Life in Taiwan” by the Ministry of Culture. Nevertheless, Ms Lin has authored more than 7 books on art education for children and is also a well-known column writer in newspapers and magazines. |
