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Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals (2023)
Thesis

This extended, normative case study was initiated in response to my professional concerns regarding the capacity of student art and design teachers to defend and extend their personal ideals for future classroom practice. Placement in schools, a majo... Read More about Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals.

An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Highly effective secondary school teachers work collegiately (Shah 2012), and increasingly do so outside of individual institutions (e.g. within MAT clusters [Birks 2019]). Beyond professional efficacy, learning to establish and maintain strong colle... Read More about An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share.

A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation, four colleagues working in teacher education reflect on a conversation. The conversation in question was a tangible discussion documented through frequent and purposeful email exchange, exploring traditionalist school art curric... Read More about A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project.

Thinking outside of the black box: esoteric visual data analysis in qualitative educational research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this presentation I discuss a recently undertaken case study pilot to illustrate a problematic lack of methodological theory addressing qualitative visual research analysis. In particular:

• Why does there appear to be a lack of methodological... Read More about Thinking outside of the black box: esoteric visual data analysis in qualitative educational research.

Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England? (2019)
Journal Article

Modern liberal rationales continue to inform a majority of teaching and learning in English art classrooms. In a postmodern Western society increasingly informed by neoliberal globalisation this approach begins to look either like an anachronism or a... Read More about Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England?.