Educational Research in the Arts: Dennis Atkinson (Episode 1)

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In this episode, we have the great pleasure of introducing Dennis Atkinson, who talks about his journey from practising artist to teacher, lecturer and researcher. He also talks about his book Pedagogy Against the State, and the effects of neo-liberal ideas on arts education in the United Kingdom. Dennis Atkinson is a Professor from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Honorary Doctor at the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg. More about Dennis Atkinson here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/educational-studies/staff/atkinson-dennis/ In this podcast series we will meet researchers and practioners in the vast field of Arts Education, and disseminate, distribute and discuss research within this field of research. If you want to learn more about the research platform labelled with the same name and functioning as a basis for the podcast series, please take a look under Ou research on the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg: www.gu.se/en/artistic-faculty/our-research Carina Borgström Källén and Tarja Karlsson Häikiö are the research leaders of the platform and host this podcast series.