About Dr. Liu

At very young age I began to study Chinese brush painting and drawing in Kunming, China. As a talented student I had the opportunity to receive a professional training from secondary school onward. For the love of art I have never stopped my artistic creation, even during I studied in Education Department at Beijing Normal University and worked in the Yunnan Disable People Foundation.

For the desire of my heart of the art I started my graduate study in Art Education at Capital Normal University in Beijing in 1996 and graduated in 1999, then worked in at National Institute of Education Sciences (NIES). I participated in the research and drafting of three major national arts education policies, as well as some national education research projects. In the meantime I did research on how the development of the individual visual perception influences his/her artistic expression, as well as primary and secondary school art curriculum design and teaching methods. I further explored how children's personalities, knowledge and experiences affect the development of their visual perception and artistic creation.

In early 2005, I received an invitation from Professor David Pariser to study children’s 

visual perception development in Department of Art Education at Concordia University for half a year as a visiting scholar. After being exposed to visual perception research methods, 

I realized that I should have more self-improvement in this field, so I began my Ph.D program at Concordia University in September 2005, and received my PhD in Art Education in June 2012.

My research mainly involve three aspects: a) A comparative study: How developments of society, economy, culture, politics, ideology and the art community influence the art education in China and Canada; b) How the cultural and natural environment influence children’s visual perception development and their artistic creation; c) The development of teaching methodology and curriculum using digital technologies, including changes of the individual visual perception, aesthetic taste and artistic creation in the culture of technology.

More information on my CV.

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