Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
Edited by Guy Keulemans + Smiljana Glisovic
The past decade has seen increasing attention placed on the inclusion of diversity in higher education, but evidence of actual progress from the academic and student experience seems less apparent than claims of intent made by university management.
In this edition of Creative Matters students and teachers from across a range of creative arts disciplines share examples of how they are working to make room for diverse voices, experiences and world-views. The articles collected show various examples of what diversity and inclusion can look like, from cross-cultural collaboration, to thematic concerns and curriculum design.
The facilitation and promotion of diversity in creative arts higher education is not just a matter of addressing historical inequities and accessibilities, it is to expand our scholarly interests and strengthen the range and benefits that creative arts provide to communities.
Our next Creative Matters edition on RISK will include a special section of your responses to the following questions: 1. How does the increasing bureaucratisation and brand-safeguarding against risk in the neo-liberalised university curtail creative and intellectual experimentation, and what strategies might creative practitioners in academia employ to resist this
Marnie Badham in The Conversation “Our four-year study reveals workers are abandoning the visual art sector, largely because of unstable employment, below-average salaries and a lack of support. We present findings from the largest academic surveys of artists and arts workers to-date – the first conducted in 2022 (more than
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