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Faculty members

The Art Education department's full-time and part-time faculty explore all aspects of the teaching of art, from education in schools and universities, to bringing art to the community, to effecting social and personal change.

Full-time

  • jessie beier
    • Assistant Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: Post-human methods in art education, teacher training, community art education, cinema, popular culture, media studies, sound, video and immersive installation, design and illustration, environmental and social justice education, energy humanities, extinction studies, feminist STS, AI, algorithms and computational thinking, critical disability studies, queer theory, post/psychoanalytic theory.
  • Lorrie Blair
    • Fellow, School of Irish Studies
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: Qualitative and studio-based research methods in art education, art-based ethics, thesis writing, teacher identity, teacher training, youth culture, visual culture, popular culture, photography, arts-based learning, body image, qualitative methods, pedagogy, higher education, teachers in popular culture, outsider/folk art, censorship
  • Aileen Pugliese Castro
    • Senior Lecturer, Art Education
  • Juan Carlos Castro
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies
  • David LeRue
    • Assistant Professor, Art Education
  • David Pariser
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: teacher training, arts-based learning, critical thinking, creativity, aesthetic development, perception, psychosocial risk, cinema, visual representation, evolutionary psychology, juvenalia, gestalt perception, cross-cultural aesthetic response, ethnography, child development, youth development, models of graphic development, teacher identity, gifted children
  • MJ Thompson
    • Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
    Research areas: performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment
  • Kathleen Vaughan
    • Co-Director, Textiles and Materiality cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
    • Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics, interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland

Part-time

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