Dr Jeff Adams

Reader

Academic Interests

Jeff is a Reader in the Department of Education. Prior to joining Edge Hill he worked at Goldsmiths, researching into art education and leading the MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices Programme in collaboration with Tate Modern and the National Artist Teachers’ Scheme.

Before joining Goldsmiths in he lectured at Liverpool John Moores University, coordinating the PGCE Art and Design course, and tutored in contemporary art history for the Open University.

Jeff’s earlier career was spent teaching in secondary comprehensive schools in Yorkshire and Cumbria.

His research interests include art education, especially contemporary art practices in schools; documentary comics and graphic novels; web-based learning; the Artist-Teacher scheme; critical studies and art history. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Some Recent Publications

Adams, J. (2008) Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Adams, J., Worwood, K., Atkinson, D., Dash, P., Herne, S., and Page, T. (2008) Teaching Through Contemporary Art. London: Tate Publications.

Adams, J. (2008) ‘The Pedagogy of the Image Text: Nakazawa, Sebald and Spiegelman Recount Social Traumas,’ Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29.1, pp. 37-52.

Adams, J. (2007) ‘Artist-Teachers Engage with VLE Forums’ International Journal of Art and Design Education 26.3, pp. 264-273.

Adams, J. (2006). ‘Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels’ in Croft, J. & Smyth, G. (Eds.), Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 161-174.

Page, T., Herne, S., Charman, H., Dash, P., Atkinson, D., and Adams, J. (2006) ‘Art Now with the Living: A Dialogue with Teachers Investigating Contemporary Art Practices’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 25(2), pp. 146-155.

Adams, J. (2005) ‘Room 13 and the Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners’, Studies in Art Education, 47:1, pp. 23-33.

Adams, J. (2003) ‘The Artist-Teacher Scheme as Postgraduate Professional Development in Higher Education’, International Journal of Art and Design Education 22.2, pp. 183-194.

Conferences

Adams, J. (2008) Keynote lecture 'Teaching Through Contemporary Art' at the National Artist Teacher Scheme Annual Conference, Tate Modern, 18 October 2008.

Adams, J. (2008) Conference paper: 'Teaching Through Contemporary Art' Collaborative Action Research Network Conference, Liverpool, 8 November.