Cultivating Creativity: Best Practices for the Art Classroom

Do the thing! – thoughtfully

Reflections on contemporary Visual Arts education, creativity, equity, and research.

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  • If This Is Term 1, What Happens Next?

    I think it’s important to start this honestly, because right now, my current reality as a teacher looks like this: I teach full-time at a high school, I study part-time at a research level as I work towards my PhD, and I also have a teaching contract working at uni, teaching undergraduate students at Griffith…

  • Where Research Meets the Art Room

    I can say with complete confidence that since completing my Masters, I feel I am a much better teacher. I finished my first Masters degree in 2018 while I was living out west in a small rural community. I had a lot of spare time on my hands, and I found that the research and…

  • Why I Use a Feminist Standpoint Theory

    Now that I am in my Masters and (hopefully) moving into the PhD space, I thought I would write about what motivates me most as a baby researcher, and the theoretical framework that grounds my work. When you begin research, one of the first questions you’re asked is: What is your theoretical framework? A theoretical…