Faculty Vita

Lara Lackey, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

Lackey, L. (April 2000). We've got to have skills: Exploring meanings, contradictions, and implications of British Columbia's Skills Now Policy. Working Papers from the Western Research Network for Education and Training (WRNET). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Butterwick, S. & Lackey, L. (Fall 1999). Gender matters: Moving from gender-blind to gender sensitive policies and programs. Pp 1, 8 in the Western Research Network for Education and Training Newsletter (WRNET). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Lackey, L. (Fall, 1999). A gender lens and Skills Now. Pp 5- 6 in the Western Research Network for Education and Training Newsletter (WRNET). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Lackey, L. (Winter 1999). Once upon a time there was a policy: Collecting stories and making sense of Skills Now. Pp 2 - 4 in the Western Research Network for Education and Training Newsletter (WRNET). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Lackey, L.(Fall, 1999). The gallery as a setting for learning and teaching and learning to teach art. BCATA Journal for Art Teachers

Lackey, L. (1999) Art education wrapped/trapped in fun: The hope and plight of recreation centre art instructors. Pp 36- 45 in Rita L. Irwin and Anna M. Kindler (eds.), Beyond the school: Community and institutional partnerships in art education. National Art Education Association: Reston, Virginia

Lackey, L. (1994). Art, education, work, and leisure: Tangles in the lifelong learning network. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, (14), 148-169. Peer-reviewed publication.

Lackey, L. (1994-95). Art and education in leisure institutions: Making a case for research. Marilyn Zurmuehlen's working papers in art education, (13), 144-122.

Lackey, L. (1994). Myths and misconceptions about the arts. Recreation BC: The Voice of the British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association. Winter 1994, A Focus on Culture, pp 22-25.

Funded Projects

Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant 1994-95

University Graduate Fellowships 1992-93; 1993-94; 1994-95

Conference Presentations

Martha Stewart as Art Educator: Is She a Bad Thing? Annual Conference of the National Art Education Association Miami, Florida March, 2002

Theorizing About a Network Called Art Education Annual Conference of the National Art Education Association Miami Florida March 2002

In the Ring with Martha Stewart and the WWW Federation Annual Conference of the Art Educators Association of Indiana University November 2001

Lenses for Theorizing Museums, Schools, and Other Sites of Art Education Fifth Annual Museum Studies Symposium Indiana University Museum Studies Association April 2001.

Exhibiting Children's Art: Lessons from a Gallery Setting Art Educators of Indiana Annual Conference November 2000

"A Real Policy in Everyday BC". Presentation as part of the research team from the Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Universite de Sherbrooke/Bishops University, June 2-12, 1999.

"Opportunity, Constraint, and the Case of A Community Mural" National Association of Art Education Annual Conference San Francisco, California, March 22, 1996.

"Art, Education, and Managed Leisure National Association of Art Education Annual Conference San Francisco, California, March 26, 1996.

"Art, Education, and Leisure Institutions: An Ethnographic Study" Seminar for Research in Art Education National Association of Art Education Annual Conference Houston, Texas, April 8, 1995.

"Considering Art in Leisure Settings" National Association of Art Education Annual Conference Baltimore Maryland, April 7-11, 1994

"Art, Education, and Leisure: Tensions in the Network" Canadian Society for Education through Art. Symposium "Advocacy Through Partnerships" Regina, Saskatchewan, October 26-27, 1994

Research Areas

Qualitative and ethnographic research methodologies; feminist/gendered analysis; institutional ethnography; adult, non-formal & community-based art education; elementary art education; leisure studies; sociological issues in education, art, and leisure (including issues of inequity related to class, culture, socio-economics, and gender)