Provoking the Field

Anita Sinner is Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University. Previously co-editor of the International Journal of Education Through Art, Sinner is also author of Unfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty: Creative Nonfiction and the Lives of Becoming Teachers (2013), and co-author of several titles, including A Heart of Wisdom: Life Writing as Emphatic Inquiry (2012), and Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada (2015).Rita L. Irwin is a distinguished university scholar and professor of art education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was also principal editor for the International Journal of Education Through Art, and is the recipient of several esteemed awards, including Canadian Teacher of the Year, Elliot Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award and Ted T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service. Irwin has co-edited well-known titles, such as Revisions: Readings in Canadian Art Teacher Education and Being with A/r/tographyJeff Adams is professor of education at the University of Chester, and the principal editor of the International Journal of Art & Design Education, as well as programme leader of RECAP, a centre for research into creativity.