Dr Madeleine Sclater BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD

Director of Learning and Teaching, School of Textiles and Design

Interests include the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, Technology Enhanced Learning in Art and Design.

Madeleine’s academic and professional work is both broad and interdisciplinary in focus. She has developed and maintained an international research profile in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Art and Design. She was one of the early adopters who researched TEL and its contribution to learning and teaching within the Art and Design Higher Education community.

Madeleine is consultant to a successful new ESRC/EPSRC funded project called Interlife: ‘Interoperability and transition’ (2009-2011). Her current research is focused on developing and fostering creativity and design thinking within ‘virtual worlds’. This project is investigating the ways in which three-dimensional online environments (e.g. Second Life) can support creative thinking among young people through a range of expressive arts activities. This project draws extensively on Madeleine’s PhD research in creativity and learning in online environments. Madeleine is one of the co-editors of IJADE (International Journal of Art and Design Education).

Madeleine brings to the School her extensive learning and teaching research experience, her practitioner-based research within the digital arts, academic leadership and a number of national and international research links.

Sclater, M (2010). Theorising from Bricolage: Designing and Researching for collaboration in Art and Design Education. In Adams, J., Cochrane, M., and Dunn, L., (Eds) (2011). The application of theory to educational research. To be published May 2011.

Lally, V., Sclater, M. 2010 Inter-Life: Community, Identity and Transition through Creative Engagement. European Conference on Educational Research, Network 16: ICT in Education and Training, Session 16 SES 03 B, ICT in Adult Education (Paper) [25 08 2010]

M. and K. Bolander (2004). Factors Influencing Students' Orientation to Collaboration in Networked Learning. Advances in research on networked learning (Vol. 4). P. Goodyear, S. Banks, V. Hodgson and D. McConnell. Boston, MA, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Lally, V., Sclater, M. 2010 Inter-Life: Community, Identity and Transition through Creative Engagement. European Conference on Educational Research, Network 16: ICT in Education and Training, Session 16 SES 03 B, ICT in Adult Education (Paper) [25 08 2010]

Sclater, M. & Lally, V., 2009. Bringing Theory to Life: towards three-dimensional learning communities with ‘Inter-Life’. In G. Rijlaarsdam (ed.) Fostering Communities of Learners: 13th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Amsterdam: Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, University of Amsterdam, 190.

Dunn, J, Miller, K, Sclater, M (2007). Telling Stories to make sense of Participatory Learning. Three critical accounts of research endeavour. Paper presented at the second International Conference on Socio-Cultural Theory in Educational Research and Practice. Manchester UK 19-20 September 2007

Sclater, M and Lally, V (2007). Creativity and Development in Professional Learning Communities: a socio cultural perspective. Paper presented at the second International Conference on Socio-Cultural Theory in Educational Research and Practice. Manchester UK 19-20 September 2007

Sclater, M & Lally, V. (2006). “Researching Creativity and Collaboration in Distributed Communities: Two vignettes”. Fifth International Conference in Networked Learning 2006

Sclater, M & Bolander, K. (2004) Factors influencing students’ orientation to collaboration in networked learning. In Advances in Networked Learning Research 2004. Eds Banks, S; Goodyear, P; Hodgsdon, V and McConnell, D. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Reynolds, M., Sclater, M.,Tickner S., Critique of Participative Discourses Adopted in Networked Learning. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Networked Learning 2004. University of Lancaster 5th – 7th April 2004.

Sclater, M & Bolander, K. Networked Learning in the Real World: Collaboration versus competition. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Networked Learning 2002. University of Sheffield 26th-28th March 2002.

Sclater, M. Freedom to Create: Computer Supported Collaborative learning in Art and Design education. In Proceedings of the CADE Conference 9-12th April, 2001 Glasgow School of Art

Sclater, M., Sclater, N., and Campbell, L. (1997). ICON: evaluating collaborative technologies, Active Learning, 7, 41-46.

Teaching Experience

Madeleine has worked in the Technology Enhanced Learning field for 15 years, has led a wide range of educational projects (both face to face and online) and designed many professional development programmes for professional groups, including university lecturers, social work professionals, and the learning workforce (teachers, managers, teaching assistants, head and deputy head teachers). She has extensive experience of Masters level course development for distance and blended learning and has extensive experience of postgraduate supervision.

Qualifications, affiliations and achievements

• BA Fine Art (Hons) (First Class) - University of South Africa, 1995
• M.Phil Art and Design in Organisational Contexts – Glasgow School of Art 1997
• PhD in Art and Design, Education, Humanities Computing - Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University, 2007
• A Co-Editor of IJADE (International Journal of Art and Design Education)
• Member of the Publications Board of NSEAD (National Society of Education in Art and Design Education)
• Senior Research Consultant to ESRC/EPSRC (TEL) funded project called Interlife: ‘Interoperability and transition’ (2009-2011)
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