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Arts and Culture
Research Group
Members of the Arts and Culture Research Group conduct research into the arts and arts learning and explore the roles and values that the arts and other forms of cultural expression play in the lives of individuals, communities, and societies in Australia and in other parts of the world, in formal and informal educational settings, and in varied socio-cultural contexts. The arts include the expressive arts, music, dance, drama, visual culture, art and design, digital arts, religious art and artefacts, community arts and arts in public places.
The aims of the group are: to raise the visibility of and advocate for the arts and arts education; to encourage practitioner research in arts education; to promote arts practice as research; to promote cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural learning in the arts; to advance understanding of the diversity of forms and functions of the arts in human cultures; and to study and develop effective arts learning for children and adults in schools, museums, art galleries, theatres, and other social and cultural settings.
Current research interests include:
- Youth arts practices and the arts in the lives of children and families
- ICT and the arts
- Arts, maths and science
- Multiliteracies and the arts
- Gender studies in the arts
- Learning from objects and images in museums, art galleries, historic sites and other cultural institutions
- Museum, theatre and performing arts in cultural institutions
- Children as custodians of cultural heritage
- Indigenous cultures, heritage and arts - transmission and translation
- Culturally-appropriate educational strategies using religious and ceremonial art forms
- Educational anthropology
- Visual sociology and visual methodology in the sociology of education
- Post-structuralism and visual arts
- Sport, aesthetics and the arts
- Wilderness, nature and the arts
Members
Moira Simpson (Group leader)Jennifer Aland
David Badenoch
Andrew Barr
Anne Carrington
Heather Foster
Margaret Freund
Rob Hattam
Janet McDowall
Jeff Meiners
Ann Moore
Sue Nichols
Michael O’Donoghue
Gwen Phillips
Jacinta Poskey
David Williams