Professor to lead session for National Art Education Association

HATTIESBURG, Miss., Dec 6 - 2007 - Dr. Read Diket, professor of art and education at William Carey University, will lead a premier panel session of Fellows at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) conference to be held in New Orleans in March.

The session will feature work that Diket completed within her ART 101 drawing class from the fall 2007 trimester and the work of three Distinguished Fellows from Stanford, Ohio State University and Virginia Commonwealth. The panel’s discussion considers perception in art studio contexts with cognitive neuroscience theory.

Diket also was notified that her individual proposal for a research length paper on neuroscience and drawing for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) gained outstanding reviews and also will be featured at the NAEA conference.

"This year AERA received 12,000 proposals for the conference and the acceptance rate is less than 25%," said Diket. "To have been placed in a Division C cutting edge research session is the very best scenario."
Diket also extended her appreciation to the advisors at WCU who "placed such an interesting group of students in the ART 101 class."

The co-founder and director of the Center for Creative Scholars at Carey, Diket announced that the Center updated its national data license for National Art Education Panel research to include new data sets and will be bringing other Carey faculty on board as newly approved analysts for WCU.