Journal of Social Theory in Art Education CALL FOR PAPERS • JSTAE Volume 25 This year's theme is un/becoming Our theme this year “Un(becoming)” provides a real challenge to social caucus members and others who wish to submit articles for our 25th anniversary issue, an achievement that we should all feel proud. Let me articulate some of the possibilities that can tie the knot of our thematic signifier. First and foremost the question of exclusion, abjection, marginalization should play on the writer’s mind. What “sticks out like a sore thumb” is a place of suffering, an extremity that exists in pain. Such suffering could be a failure of recognition, it may well be outright rejection by structures that may or may not be apparent. Un(becoming) has also the connotation of an aesthetics of ugliness, which raises all sorts of issues as to who and what objects in art education are invested with an aestheticized “becoming.” Something “sticks out” again, but this time it is not ignored and abjected, as much as it is hated for its possible effects of ruination. Something ugly intervenes into the pristine beauty of the accepted picture. To be fanciful, an ugly toad like Shriek wins the hand of a princess who is really a grrrl. Un(becoming) has in it the portmanteau word “becoming” and here we can play with the notion of something that has yet to come out, has yet to appear, has yet to emerge. What rests within art education that could be given this particular “line of flight” to follow Deleuze. Deleuze’s very important concept of “becoming woman” is significant here. What awaits to be written and “recognized” for its potential impact on our field? This theme has this possibility as well. Finally, but not exhaustively I am sure, the notion of its inverse is possible as well. What has to be “undone” within art education itself so that new “becomings” can emerge? Un(becoming) therefore can be interpreted as an unraveling, an un-knotting, or de-framing, dropping and opening up structures that too long have held the parenthesis of (becoming) hostage. I hope this simple description of the theme can open up vistas and new imaginings for the authors of our quarter century journal. It is a theme that is quite rich in its implications for transformative change and justice that the social caucus stands behind. Editor- jan Jagodzinski (jan.jagodzinski@ualberta.ca) Co-Editor Bill Wightman (wightmwh@jmu.edu) October 15, 2004 is the deadline for submission of articles, images, and reviews of books, video/films, performance/action pieces, and exhibitions for spring 2004 publication of volume 24. Images and visual research may be submitted. Membership is not a precondition to submit manuscripts. Please send images no larger than 8" x 10" in either photographic, original, digital (300 dpi .tif), or slide form. Original manuscripts should be prepared according to the APA (5th edition) style. Please place your name on a separate paper to help facilitate anonymous review. Please send images and/or four paper copies to: jan jagodzinski, editor for volume 25 (2005) 341 Education South Department of Secondary Education University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5 jan.jagodzinski@ualberta.ca The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE) is a publication of the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education (CSTAE), a National Art Education Association Issues Group. Its editorial policy is in compliance with the CSTAE's constitutional mandate: to promote the use of theoretical concepts from the social sciences—which include, but are not limited to, anthropology, sociology, and political science—to study visual culture and the teaching of art; to inform art educators about theory and practice in the social sciences, thus acting as a liaison between social scientists and art educators; to encourage research into the social context of visual culture and teaching art; and to develop socially relevant programs for use in the teaching of art. Journal Process and Timetable: The journal is distributed to members at the NAEA annual conference and mailed each June to current CSTAE members who did not attend NAEA. CSTAE members are encouraged to offer your services as JSTAE reviewers. To do so, contact jan jagodzinski with your publication citations and a statement of areas of expertise. CSTAE members discuss a theme for each year's journal at the CSTAE Annual Business meeting at the NAEA conference. The deadline for submissions to the JSTAE is October 15 for the next year's journal. Gallery images and book reviews may be accepted later than the October 15 deadline. Editors serve two year terms. jan jagodzinski has been joined by Bill Wightman in his appointment by the Executive Board to a second term (2003-2004 & 2004-2005). Click here to see a table of contents of volumes 1-24. How to Purchase Journals: Inquiries concerning membership, journal subscription, and past issues should be addressed to Sara Wilson McKay at: swilsonmckay@uh.edu University of Houston Department of Curriculum & Instruction Art Education Program Houston, TX 77204-5872 Phone: (713) 861-9326 FAX: (713) 743-4990 Subscription Rates: The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education is a benefit of membership in the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education. 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