Biography
Dan Serig, Assistant Teaching Professor
Daniel Serig is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Doctoral Program in Education. He teaches research methods courses and electives in the Higher Education Administration concentration.
Academic Background and Areas of Research
Serig holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College at Columbia University in Art and Art Education. His research focuses on AI in qualitative doctoral education. Since 2002, Serig has been part of dozens of arts programming evaluations nationwide. Clients include the National Endowment for the Arts’ Education Leaders Institutes, Cleveland Public Schools, the Utah Arts Council, the National Dance Institute, the Indianapolis Symphony, and ArtsConnection in New York City.
Serig served as the Research Review section editor of Teaching Artist Journal for three years and served as an editorial board member of the journals Visual Inquiry: Teaching and Learning in Art and Art for Life. Serig presents nationally and internationally.
Professional Experience
Serig comes to Northeastern after concluding his work as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he also held the positions of Associate Vice President, Dean, Chair of Art Education, and tenured associate professor. Since 2002, he has been part of dozens of arts programming evaluations throughout the U.S.
Research Focus Areas:
AI in qualitative doctoral education
curriculum design and assessment
international education
artistic research
Publications
2024. Presentation at the first annual Cambridge University, UK, College of Education, AI in Education conference.
’17 Critique: An Experience of Metacognition. In Richard Jochum (Ed.) Critique 2.0:
Remixing Art Education Symposium (Proceedings). NY: Teachers College
’15 Simultaneously Working with Multiple Grades in One Art Room: Experiences in
Multi-age Art Education. Art Education (March)
’14 Assessing Learning in an Era of Increased Demands for Accountability. In Richard
Jochum (Ed.), Conversations Across Cultures: Remixing Art Education Symposium (Proceedings). NY: Teachers College
’09 Establishing Collaborative Conversations: The Mentor and the Apprentice. Visual
Arts Research Journal, 35(2)
’08 Understanding the Conceptual Landscape of Visual Metaphor. Teaching Artist
Journal, 6(1) The Necessity of Studio Art as a Site and Source for Dissertation Research. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 27(1)
’06 A Conceptual Structure of Visual Metaphor. Studies in Art Education, 47(3)
’05 Visual Metaphors in the Practices of Artists. Art Education Dissertation
Monographs, Teachers College, Vol. 1
