Dennis Atkinson

Background

About Dennis Atkinson

Dennis Atkinson Originally from Yorkshire Dennis Atkinson completed his PhD at Southampton University in 1988. He taught in secondary schools in England from 1971-1988 when he was appointed lecturer in art and design education at Goldsmiths University of London. He directed a number of programmes including secondary art and design teacher education, Masters and Post-Graduate Doctoral programmes. He was appointed Professor of Art in Education in 2005 and Head of Department of Educational Studies from 2006-2009. He established the Research Centre for The Arts and Learning in the Department of Educational Studies in 2005 and was Director from 2005-2013. He was the Principal Editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education from 2002-2009 and is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s Publications Board and he was made a Fellow of the Society in 2009. Dennis has published regularly in a number of international academic journals since 1991 including The International Journal for Art and Design Education, The International Journal of Inclusive Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and has contributed chapters to a number of edited collections. He has published five books, Art in Education: Identity and Practice (2003); Social and Critical Practice in Art Education,(with Paul Dash); Regulatory Practices in Education: A Lacanian Perspective,(with Tony Brown & Janice England,2005); Teaching Through Contemporary Art: A report on innovative practices in the classroom,(with Jeff Ad ams, Kelly Worwood, Paul Dash, Steve Herne, & Tara Page) and Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies Against the State (2011). Art, Disobedience and Ethics: The Adventure of Pedagogy (2018). Pedagogies of Taking Care: Art, Pedagogy and the Gift of Otherness (2022). He has recently co-edited a special issue of iJADE (2024) with John Baldacchino on Revisiting Art's Education.In 2015 he was awarded The Ziegfeld Award by The United States Society for Education through Art for outstanding international contributions to art in education. He is currently working on a new collection of papers that include the themes of art’s pedagogy, paganism, the outside, unlearning, stratified grounds and educational practices, incompletion and response-ability. He is visiting professor At University of Porto, University Barcelona, University of Gothenburg, and Queen Mary's University London. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths University London.