Call for Contributions Educators, practitioners, scholars, allied health

Call for Contributions Educators, practitioners, scholars, allied health therapists and artists, are invited to make a submission to be part of the exciting, cutting edge international symposium placing the arts at the centre of education for special needs.

International Symposium: Re-imagining Special Educationthrough Arts Education & Arts Therapy
26-29 July 2008
Melbourne, Australia

Visit http://symposium.portphillip.vic.edu.au and click on the Call for
Papers link to download the Call for Contributions Form Complete form and
outline your role in facilitating a workshop, presenting a performance, paper,
seminar, round-table, poster presentation or community event and e-mail or fax
by close of business on 12 October 2007.
E: enquiries@portphillip.vic.edu.au
F: +61 3 9646 0704
To all educators, arts practitioners, scholars, therapists and artists,

On behalf of the organising committee, I am leased to announce the very
exciting and innovative 2008 International Symposium: Re-imagining Special
Education through Arts Therapy and Arts Education to be held in Melbourne
Australia, 26-29 July 2008.

Traditionally special education has provided a modified mainstream experience
for students with special needs. Recent research and exemplars of good practice
illustrate the importance of a paradigm shift in the delivery of special
education. There is a growing national and international awareness of the need
to develop new strategies. Special education through the Arts delivers a sensory
approach to learning assisting students to move from the non-verbal to the
verbal, from being an observer to a participant and to fully awaken student
potential. These changes have been realized through the power of the Arts
intertwined with Arts Therapy.

This Symposium will provide learning opportunities for participants to explore
and discover the processes and programming required to re-imagine special
education.

The Call for Contributions is now open. It would be appreciated if you would
forward this email to relevant persons within your organisation, and also
forward it throughout your professional networks. If you have a newsletter,
publication or noticeboard it would be appreciated if you could include the
notice above. The Call for Contributions Application Form and ads promoting the
Call for Contributions can be directly downloaded from
http://symposium.portphillip.vic.edu.au/Call_for_Papers/

Thank you for your assistance at this time,

Regards,

Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper
Symposium Convenor
& Director of Development
Port Phillip Specialist School
127 Nott Street
Port Melbourne Vic 3207
T: 03 9646 0855

Susan Cooper
Director of Development
Port Phillip Specialist School
Nott Street, Port Melbourne Vic 3207 Australia
T: +61 3 9646 0855
F: +61 3 9646 0704
W: www.portphillip.vic.edu.au

Internet art therapy research

Kate Collie who is a researcher in art therapy presents an internet application of art therapy in some detail. It is wonderful that my colleagues are now using video to demonstrate what they do.

Kate Collie, PhD, MFA, ATR, is an artist, art therapist, researcher, and professional workshop facilitator. Her research interests include the use of the arts in healthcare, innovative approaches to expanding access to behavioural healthcare (including internet art therapy), and psychosocial dimensions of medical illness, especially breast cancer. After completing an interdisciplinary PhD at the Institute of Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Collie was a postdoctoral research fellow and then a research associate at the Center for Stress and Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Biography borrowed from Behavioral Telehealth & Research

Art therapy workshop for professionals (BC, Canada)

Healing the Healers
Experiential Art Therapy Workshop for Professionals 

Healing the Healers
Experiential Art Therapy Workshop for Professionals
will be offered twice this spring:

1) February 24 & 25, 2007
2) March 31 & April 1, 2007

To understand oneself through the expressive arts is to go beyond the limitations of language and social construct, and to engage in a landscape of the unconscious, to participate in the re-creation of self.

This experiential workshop offers an opportunity for healthcare professionals to explore therapeutic issues of stress, “vicarious trauma” and self-care.

Participants will have an opportunity to use the creative process for personal exploration, growth, and insight in a safe, confidential environment. The focus will be on personal development through spontaneous art-making and symbolism. No art experience is necessary.

Further details can be found here…

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Art Therapy NYU

Brand new… Art therapy students in New York are using blogs to get the word out and support their emerging professional needs as art therapy professionals.

Art Therapy NYU

Art Therapy NYU This web page was created to host information about Art Therapy for NYU graduate students.

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Cross-cultural influences in Visual Culture

On this site you can find many research articles that cater to cross-cultural influences in aesthetic and artistic development
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Click here to check out the Exhibition of Shojo Manga!

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It’s time to discuss and share our ideas of what visual culture is, how it influences children, and finally the possibility of implementing visual culture in art educational curricula.”