Dr. Rita Irwin

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Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy

Rita L. Irwin is a Distinguished University Scholar and Professor Emerita of Art Education and Curriculum Studies and former Associate Dean of Teacher Education and Head, Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Rita received her formal education at the University of Lethbridge (B. Ed. and Diploma), the University of Victoria (M.Ed.) and the University of British Columbia (Ed.D.). Rita has been an educational leader for a number of provincial, national and international organizations including being President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Society for Education through Art, International Society for Education through Art and Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education.

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  • International Society for Education Through Art World Congress 2019 (InSEA 2019)

    July 9-13, 2019

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INQt2BA7hvg

    The InSEA World Congress held at UBC across five days in July 2019 offered art educators an opportunity to theorize and practice ‘making’ in art education.  Through a diverse array of sessions, workshops and field experiences, delegates were able to reimagine and reflect upon ‘making’ in art education. Situating ‘making’ within Vancouver and Canada offered an opportunity to emphasize concepts such as emplacement, being out of place, and being of the place.  Moreover, UBC is on Musqueam First Nations unceded and ancestral territory.  At the intersection of Indigenous and multicultural perspectives, Vancouver becomes a meeting point for hybrid identities, experimental ideas and place-based consciousness.

Publications

  • Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., & Irwin, R.L. (2025). Pairs Together: Visual propositions as an a/r/tographic learning in relation. IJADE.
    2025
  • Leddy, S., Rallis, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2025). Sister scholarship, Indigenous Métissage and relational ethics: The decolonizing power of phenomenological encounters with art. Studies in Art Education (66)2, 230-248.
    2025
  • Sarreshtehdari, E., Baldus, A., & Irwin, R. L. (2024). In-betweenness ‘Walked in the Style of’ A/r/tography. International Journal of Arts-Based Educational Research, 2(2).
    2024
  • Irwin, R. L. (2024). Preface: Noticing the needle differently. IMAG, 17, 3-5.
    2024
  • Baldus, A., Sarreshtehdari, E., & Irwin, R. L. (2024). Becoming in the style of A/r/tography: A c/a/r/tography of sorts. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Sept.4, 2024, 1-14.
    2024