8. ELTE WORKSHOP FOR ARTS EDUCATION 2025.

MOVEMENT, PERFORMATIVITY AND COMMUNITY IN ART EDUCATION

For the eighth time, the founders and the associated higher education institutions are organising the Art Education Conference, an annual meeting of researchers and teachers in the field of art education, art education institutions and children's culture.

The event will be hosted by the Hungarian Dance University on 29-30 May 2025. The focus of the conference will be on the following themes: MOVEMENT, PERFORMATIVITY and COMMUNITY.

The conference is open to practitioners and researchers from all fields of art education: dance, music, visual education, drama-theatre-puppet pedagogy, museum education, and circus arts!

Our aim is to present innovations and research results in the field of art education and education through art in a scientific way, to strengthen national and international networks between art education professionals and to promote cooperation in new research and development programmes. The working languages of the conference will be English and Hungarian.

Main topics of the conference in 2025:

Art education and digitalisation: the role of new technologies in art education

Creative thinking: development and evaluation

Arts and mental health

Acceptance and art education

Performativity and pedagogy: psychodrama, sociodrama, drama pedagogy, theatre education and drama for children and students

Interdisciplinarity and education through art

Arts-based participatory research in education

Detailed conference topics available: here!

Plenary presentations in Hungarian and English, symposia in Hungarian and English, workshops and intermodal blocks will form the backbone of the two-day conference.