who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Martina Paatela-
Nieminen
University of Eastern Finland, School
of Applied Educational Science and
Teacher Education, Harmaapadentie
3, Helsinki, 930, Finland
Keywords intertextuality, art,
museum pedagogy, young children
Kyong-Mi Paek
Ulsan National Institute of Science
and Technology (UNIST), Banyeon-ri
100, Eonyang-eup, Ulju-gun,, Ulsan,
689-798, Korea Sout
Keywords art education, creative
processes, inquiry oriented learning,
interdisciplinary approaches
Adrian Page
Keywords consciousness, Kafka,
literature, reading, virtual reality
Martina Paatela-Nieminen gained her Doctorate of Arts from the
University of Art and Design, Helsinki (now Aalto University, School
of Art and Design) in 2001. She worked as a senior research associate
in the School of Art Education at the same university from 1985 until
2006. From 2006-2008 she was a lecturer in visual arts education in the
Department of Applied Sciences of Education, Faculty of Behavioural
Sciences, at the University of Helsinki. In 2008 she was a lecturer at
UIAH.She is currently a professor at the University of Eastern Finland.
She has also two adjunct professorships and for the last two years she
has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland. Her
research interests are art education both in the field of class teacher and
art teacher studies, intertextual methodology and intercultural and -
media projects. She is currently chair of InSEA Finland.
› Applying intertextual method in museum pedagogy: studying portraits as
cultural texts at Sinebrychoff Art Museum, International Journal of
Education through Art, 1.3, 199-210.
Kyong-Mi Paek is Assistant Professor at Ulsan National Institute of
Science and Technology, South Korea. She received her Ed.D. in art
education from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
Her research interests includes socio-cultural aspects of art learning,
creative processes and practices in the arts, cognitive approaches to art
learning, inquiry oriented learning and interdisciplinary approaches.
Her recent research involves investigation of contemporary Korean
sociocultural art education practice and a curriculum development
research project for the programmes for gifted and talented youth in the
visual arts.
› Empowering Korean pre-service teachers of art, International Journal of
Education through Art, 2.1, 27-42.
Adrian Page is now Academic Leader for the Humanities and Social
Sciences modular scheme at London Metropolitan University where he
is also teaching and researching in the culture industries. Prior to this
he was Deputy Head of Media Arts at the University of Luton. He has
researched and published on many aspects of culture and philosophy,
including literary theory, new technologies, film and television drama.
› The end of reading, the beginning of virtual fiction?, Technoetic Arts: A
Journal of Speculative Research, 2.1, 33-44.