This Faculty Research Group is concerned with critical theory and practice in creativity, arts based methods, and arts education across early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary, and public pedagogical contexts. Theoretical underpinnings of the group include sociocultural perspectives, practice-led-research, and critical theory. Methodologically the group draws on a variety of research methodologies from both quantitative and qualitative paradigms, including narrative inquiry, performance and other ethnography, a/r/tography, historical research and phenomenology.

Collaborations

Out research group is currently collaborating with a range of national and international colleagues and groups from New Zealand, Canada, the UK, Europe, and the USA amongst others. We are a founding member of the Australian Arts Based Education Research network, a consortium of scholars and practitioners conducting quarterly symposia on topics of interest to the network. We welcome proposals for new research collaborations, and maintain a dynamic visiting scholar program.

Group members

• Dr Clare Hall (Leader)
• Dr Nish Belford
• Ms Rosemary Bennett
• Dr Geraldine Burke
• Dr Helen Grimmett
• Assoc Prof Anne Harris (Adjunct member)
• Ms Louise Jenkins
• Dr Michelle Ludecke
• Assoc Prof Jane Southcott
• Dr Melissa Wolfe

Related links

• Creative Research Hub
• Australia Association of Research in Education, Arts Education Special Interest Group
• American Education Research Association - ABER SIG
  • Facebook page
• British Educational Research Association ABER SIG
• Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education
• Maker Faire (Made for each other): Art and Science
  22 May 2014 - Presentation by Professor Shirley Brice Heath at the 2014 Diamond Series: Education conversations in the community (Melbourne)