Life-Integrated Learning
ELIA Academy 2025: Life-Integrated Learning is a three-day event hosted by Kristiania University College, Oslo dedicated to arts teaching and learning and the advancement of higher arts education.
Higher arts education today spans the length and breadth of what it means to be human. Arts educators and students are expected to engage in creative discovery and personal and professional transformation, all channelled through inspiring, brave spaces and pedagogies of care. But sometimes life gets in the way – or does it?
ELIA Academy 2025 invites you on a three-day exploration of what we mean by Life-Integrated Learning—a concept that extends work-integrated learning to encompass the physical, emotional, environmental, societal, technological, and political dimensions we face in our daily lives. Together, we examine how our individual and collective experiences can be integrated into teaching and learning practices.
Hosted by Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway, ELIA Academy 2025 provides a supportive environment underpinned by positivity, where arts practitioners, technicians, students, and educators are encouraged to be curious, open to thought-provoking pedagogies and methodologies, bubbling works-in-progress, and the invaluable feedback of their international peers.
As guiding lights for each other, we aim to discover new alternatives. We investigate the nature of the ties that connect us within our institutions, across artistic disciplines, and to industries and sectors beyond. We ask how generational knowledge, and diverse perspectives can build resilience and empower arts students to face the unknown with confidence. Through Life-Integrated Learning, we hope to illuminate new ways forward, transforming ourselves, our students, and our communities.
ELIA Academy 2025 call for contributions
The Academy Steering Group invites ELIA member colleagues from all artistic disciplines to engage with the theme: Life-Integrated Learning. Contribute to an inspiring, innovative and collaborative programme.
What are we looking for
ELIA Academy 2025 seeks to provide an inspiring and informative programme led by teaching and learning professionals. ELIA believes in the illuminating capacity of arts education. We invite contributions that utilise a variety of forms or modes of presentation that inspire participant engagement.
The ELIA Academy is a platform for educational innovation and critical reflection. We welcome contributions which traverse boundaries and intersections. Therefore, with this in mind, we have refrained from providing overly specific guidelines.
A wide variety of formats will be considered, such as; real-life scenarios, testing grounds / exercises, creative digital approaches, performance lectures, workshops, roundtables, role-play games, presentations, immersive set ups, feedback sessions, experiments, rehearsals etc., that engage the audience and encourage discussions on the development of teaching and learning in the arts.
As a collective and nurturing learning space, the ELIA Academy 2025 invites captivating methodologies, works-in-progress, dilemmas and emerging ideas to be shared, examined and challenged together. The Academy aims to create a teaching and learning environment with real-world engagement, a space of possibilities, creativity and innovation, and provide possible routes to new findings. It opens doors outside of academia, inviting communities and industries to collaborate and share both knowledge and experience. It is a space of sharing, learning and expanding our knowledge collectively. At the ELIA Academy 2025, visionary contributors are invited to explore the concept of life-integrated learning.
Who can apply
Lecturers, artists, curriculum developers, designers, architects, musicians and technicians teaching at ELIA member institutions, those who are directly involved in the delivery of theory and practice, artistic researchers and teachers/researchers in arts education or pedagogy, including art educators working in the public domain, who wish to: engage with unexpected, non-traditional pedagogical methods on an international level; gain new insights and look to future practices in educating and training artists across all art disciplines; share ideas and practices with like-minded colleagues from across Europe and beyond.
We encourage students to participate with their learning experiences, reflections and provocations on modes of learning. We welcome those who are studying arts education to help us re-think teaching & learning from a student perspective.
Read the full call for contributions. Deadline: January 8, 2025. Submit your proposal. For further information, please contact ELIA Conference Manager Janja Škerget at janja.skerget [at] elia-artschools.org.
