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MULTICULTURALISM AND ARTS-BASED RESEARCHaim of the network is to l<strong>in</strong>k together art <strong>in</strong>stitutions and <strong>in</strong>dividuals <strong>in</strong>different cities around the Baltic Sea. Correspond<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>tern<strong>at</strong>ional cooper<strong>at</strong>ionis go<strong>in</strong>g on between countries <strong>in</strong> Northern Europe organised by theUniversity of Lapland. In addition to specified networks, the University ofArt and Design <strong>in</strong> Hels<strong>in</strong>ki has a large popul<strong>at</strong>ion of <strong>in</strong>tern<strong>at</strong>ional students,five of them do<strong>in</strong>g their doctoral studies <strong>at</strong> the School of Art <strong>Educ<strong>at</strong>ion</strong>. Theschool also has <strong>in</strong>vited visit<strong>in</strong>g professors from U.S. universities s<strong>in</strong>ce 1987.Harlan Hoffa, Arthur Efland, Elizabeth Garber, P<strong>at</strong>ricia Stuhr and KarenKeifer-Boyd have each taught a semester <strong>at</strong> the UIAH. The gradu<strong>at</strong>e schoolMulticultural art educ<strong>at</strong>ion also arranged several sem<strong>in</strong>ar series with <strong>in</strong>tern<strong>at</strong>ionalteachers like Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (narr<strong>at</strong>ive researchmethods) and P<strong>at</strong>ti L<strong>at</strong>her (fem<strong>in</strong>ist research methods).The roots of cooper<strong>at</strong>ion between Nordic researchers <strong>in</strong> art educ<strong>at</strong>ioncan be tracked down to the yearly summer courses for art teachers th<strong>at</strong> theNordic countries have taken turns to organise for 40 years now. Althoughthese courses have a practical emphasis, new research has also been <strong>in</strong>troduceddur<strong>in</strong>g them. At the official level, research cooper<strong>at</strong>ion between theNordic countries was first realized through the Network of Nordic <strong>Research</strong>ers<strong>in</strong> <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Educ<strong>at</strong>ion</strong> dur<strong>in</strong>g the years 1994–1997. Four “summerschools” for doctoral students were organized with the support of the NordicAcademy for Advanced Study (NorFA). The theme of the first week-longresearch sem<strong>in</strong>ar was called Art, cognition and curriculum and it was organized<strong>in</strong> Bräkne-Hoby, Sweden, <strong>in</strong> 1994, with Arthur Efland and Judith Smith-Koroscik as guest lecturers. The next workshop for Nordic researchers <strong>in</strong>visual art educ<strong>at</strong>ion was held <strong>in</strong> Hels<strong>in</strong>ki, F<strong>in</strong>land, <strong>in</strong> 1995. In the summerof 1996 a symposium on Traditions and methods <strong>in</strong> visual arts educ<strong>at</strong>ion tookplace <strong>in</strong> Tisvildeleje, Denmark, with Brent Wilson as the keynote speaker.Another research course was held th<strong>at</strong> summer <strong>in</strong> Ronneby, Sweden, on thetheme Intelligence, cre<strong>at</strong>ivity and curriculum, chaired by Howard Gardner.The follow<strong>in</strong>g summer’s symposium The cultural context: Compar<strong>at</strong>ive studiesof art educ<strong>at</strong>ion and children’s draw<strong>in</strong>gs took place <strong>in</strong> Vilnius, Lithuania. (SeeL<strong>in</strong>dström, 1998; 2000.)In addition, congresses of the Intern<strong>at</strong>ional Society for <strong>Educ<strong>at</strong>ion</strong> throughArt (InSEA) <strong>in</strong> Stockholm 1988, Hels<strong>in</strong>ki 1992 and the InSEA on Sea congress2003 organized cooper<strong>at</strong>ively by F<strong>in</strong>land, Sweden and Estonia havebeen signposts of Nordic research. Presently, the cooper<strong>at</strong>ion seems to haveslowed down, with some <strong>in</strong>dividual researchers work<strong>in</strong>g on reports likeNordic research <strong>in</strong> visual arts educ<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>in</strong> museums and galleries (Illeris, 2004)and this public<strong>at</strong>ion. In addition to the InSEA congresses, meet<strong>in</strong>g researchers<strong>in</strong> the congresses of the Associ<strong>at</strong>ion for Teacher Educ<strong>at</strong>ors <strong>in</strong> EuropeNORDIC VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION IN TRANSITION 99

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