The NAEA Research Commission Interactive Café is a place where
discussion of topics can foster new communities for bettering practice,
conducting research, and raising issues for the field. The Café invites
members, in an informal setting, to participate
in exchanging knowledge, sharing issues, generating initiatives, and
developing questions related to research issues.
Using the Interactive Café: Café guests have the opportunity to
construct or contribute to discussion threads around art education
topics. The Research Commission has provided three categories of tags:
Topics, Methods, and People for guests to use with each
discussion threads and post. Guests do not need to use tags from each
of the three categories and they are encouraged to use all the tags that
are most applicable to their contribution. Research Café editors will
have the capacity to add tags that they see
as germane in order to build connections between café guests.
Interactive Café Opportunities: In addition to collaborating and
connecting in new ways, the Research Commission intends the Café to
provide other benefits for users. First, as Café guests form groups,
they are encouraged to utilize the Research Commission’s
Initiatives and Collaboration page to connect with other members. If
Café groups see their collaborations as connected to the Research
Agenda, they are encouraged to work towards developing a Research
Commission Endorsed project. Guests interested in blogging
about a particular topic should contact the editor with an outline and
timeline for the proposed blog. Frequent Café guests will have
opportunities to become co-editors of the Interactive Café.