Edited by Dr. Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta and Professor David Cole, Art, Artists and Pedagogy has become a point of reference for arts educators. The book considers the arts within the context of Gert Biesta, one of the leading educational thinkers of our day, and the theoretical mapping provided by Deleuze and Guattari.

by Marjolein Whyte & Christopher Naughton.

This paper “What’s our next move?” Seeing children in the light of potentialities uncovers a Deleuzian reading of arts pedagogy in an early childhood context. Following a community artist in dance, the teaching episode points to a new ‘concept’ being put to work.

Heidegger’s Reinterpretation of Plato’s Allegory with Reference to Music Education

by Christopher Naughton & John Roder

One of the questions that Heidegger presents in his paper, ‘Plato’s Doctrine on Truth’ (1998), is the distortion as he sees is it of ‘paideia.’ For Heidegger this is a misconception of Plato’s concept of teaching and learning. With reference to the past, present and future philosophical perspectives of teaching and learning, an attempt is made in this paper to examine Heidegger’s reading of paideia within the context of online teaching.

by Christopher Naughton & David Lines

With reference to the essay ‘Proust and Signs’ (1990) by Deleuze, an analysis of the community artist in music is considered in “…actually, with music, it just happens”. By engaging in artwork through listening, observing, and performing, the paper reports on children engaging their imaginative potential to achieve a high level of self-legitimisation.

by Christopher Naughton

This is a follow up article to the Changing Places project published in the Australian Society of Music Education journal,

by David Lines, Christopher Naughton & John Rode

MAPS, Move, Act, Play, Sing was a collaborative research project in dance, drama and music involving three early childhood centres. After a two-year engagement with community artists each centre was tasked to devise their own ‘arts’ event. The entire project was documented on film including taught sessions by community artists, teachers cluster days, interviews with artists and teachers the eventual community event.

Changing Places is a groundbreaking study where conservatoire music students were invited to participate in an early childhood arts education project. The underpinning was that each could gain from each other; music students learning how to apply their knowledge, while early childhood educators found new ways to promote the arts in their centres.

by John Roder & Christopher Naughton

With the advent of online learning, questions arise as to which format for leadership may be most appropriate given the technological and social evolution within online discussion. In this paper ‘Interdependence: reinterpreting the nature of leadership..’ emerging perspectives are explored on the nature of interaction between those who lead and those who learn leading to the question: Is it that institutions are the sole proprietors of knowledge, when learners have the freedom to engage in multiple forms of knowledge construction with the advent of the internet and AI?

The Thrill of Making a Racket tells the story of two community samba projects, one in the UK and the other in New Zealand. The book considers samba as a facet of being in relation to the ‘event’. The publication also undertakes a detailed evaluation of the praxial, aesthetic and anthropological approach to teaching music.

By adopting ‘novel texts’ this article looks at the perception and interpretation of theory. In Can Carnival save us from the Masquerade? Bakhtin points to communities evolving, as in ‘carnival’, by breaking rules and conventions. Similarly, can we say that learning demands active engagement, and disruption on the part of the student? Is it that we should challenge the ‘masquerade’ of uniformity and uncritical compliance in order to further new knowledge and participation.

In the United Kingdom the creative arts education enterprise is underway. Rival arts organizations are offering schools ready-made packages to fulfil curriculum requirements. This paper Creative Arts as a Service Industry considers the implications of an industrial approach to the arts and the impact this will have on arts education.

Nietzsche’s Apollonian and Dionysian Consciousness in the Context of Community and Classroom Samba explores the theoretical linkage between community samba and Nietzsche’s ‘Birth of Tragedy’.  The text explores the practice of ‘making’ within the community samba school juxtaposing that with the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.