Victoria Pavlou
Disciplines, scientific fields, research areas
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Humanities & Arts
- Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
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Other humanities
- Other humanities
Keywords
Bio
Dr Victoria Pavlou is Professor of Visual Arts Education at the Education Department of Frederick University, Cyprus. Her teaching and research focus on the initial and continuous professional development of generalist teachers in art education and on children’s learning preferences, motivation and creative potential. Her professional passions include changing attitudes, building confidence and connecting art with real-life issues.
She has experience in numerous European-funded projects as a partner and/or external evaluator. She was the coordinator of the CARE (Visual art education in new times: Connecting Art with REal life issues, 2019-2022) project and currently, she coordinates the CARE/SS (Critical ARts Education for Sustainable Societies, 2022-2024) European-funded project. She is a member of the International Society of Education through Art (serving for several years in the European Regional Council - elected and co-opted), a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Education through Art (IJETA) and a guest editor of the first 2023 IJETA issue, that focuses on ‘Art, Sustainability and Partnerships’.
Degrees
PhD Doctor of Philosophy (2003) - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
MA in Educational Studies by Research (with distinction) (1998) - Department of Education, University of Warwick, UK
Bed Primary Education (1994) - Department of Primary Education, University of Athens, Greece
Teacher Diploma (1992) - Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus
News about me & my work
Book release!
Art, Sustainability and Learning Communities. Call to Action
Edited by Raphael Vella and Victoria Pavlou
GBP 109.95 | 306 pages | Feb 27, 2024
https://www.intellectbooks.com/art-sustainability-and-learning-communities
Guest editor at special issue!
Pavlou, V., & Vella, R. (2023). Art, sustainability and partnerships. [editorial]
International Journal of Education Through Art, 19(1), 3-10.
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/eta_00114_2?TRACK=RSS
Part of the EU community/working group!
Working in the Sustainability squad of the European Digital Education Hub to offer guidance on issues of Sustainability and Digital Education. The output of this working group/ squad will be out in February 2024 and will be discussed during a face-to-face workshop to be held in Paris on the 15th and 16th of February 2024.
Projects
Critical ARts Education for Sustainable Societies (CARE/SS)
Info within the University website: https://www.frederick.ac.cy/en/critical-arts-education-for-sustainable-societies
CARE/SS aims to develop/adjust a pedagogical framework for online and blended learning for arts education and examine its application by developing and delivering innovative teacher trainings that will
empower teachers in arts education. Arts education can respond to the increasingly diverse needs for active citizenship, multiculturalism, respect of diversity, digital learning and sustainable development.
Project CARE/SS is about widening the access to the arts through online and blended learning and enhancing arts education with education for sustainable development elements that will promote creative thinking, critical and systemic thinking, reflection and development of skills, attitudes and values. (Pavlou & Kadji 2021, Vare et al. 2019). Thus, through the content of the trainings, CARE/SS responds to the need to support educational programs that enhance social and intercultural competences, critical thinking & creativity. Education through the arts, especially with the integration of education for sustainable development (particularly the social and cultural aspects), reflects the transition into the 21st century education where emphasis is placed on sustainable competences, such as empathy, attentiveness, participation, values, responsibility, decisiveness, criticality, action, and creativity (Pavlou & Kadji 2021, Vare et al. 2019, Hutchens & Pankratz 2000, Inwood 2010, Kim 2015)
The partners involved in this project are:
Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poland
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece
The University of Malta (UOM), Malta
The Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
Visual art education in new times: Connecting Art with REal life issues (CARE)
FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
European Commission:
Description
CARE is a transnational project that seeks to strengthen common attributes and objectives between local/national policies for visual arts education and European common goals for visual literacy as described within the key competence Cultural awareness and expression. Through the project, we seek to improve the competences of teachers, to promote visual competences, enhance their classes with real life situations, and promote transversal competences and inter-cultural values to their pupils. Simultaneously these activities will have an important impact on all participating and collaborating organizations, developing their way of teaching and research.
2019-11 to 2022-05 | Grant
European Commission (Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, CY)
URL: http://care.frederick.ac.cy/
GRANT_NUMBER: KA203-2E0AE867