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Teaching commitmentResearch InterestsChris is currently researching theories and practices of Visual Arts pedagogy, and is also investigating approaches to rethinking the foundation concepts of educational philosophy. He is particularly interested in how the repression of sexual difference has given effect to notions of pedagogy and mastery which have traditionally informed educational thought. He has written a series of case studies examining the historical conditions surrounding the emergence of these concepts in antiquity, as well as modern curriculum approaches in Visual Art education. This has included attention to notions of professional identity for art teachers, and the correlative, inter-disciplinary notions of the artist for their implicit impact on curriculum construction. He is additionally interested in developing new research methods based on Irigaray's investigation of sexual difference using a combination of psychoanalytic theory and a modification of the ontological theory of Martin Heidegger.
Most recently Chris has been investigating the impact of recent neo-liberal reform in educational policy for its long-term effect on conceptions of pedagogy and mastery.
EditorialChris is Associate Editor of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education.
Publications(2008) Phallocratic antecedents of teaching and learning. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 16 (3) 239-252.
(2006) What does a pedagogue look like? Masculinity and the repression of sexual difference in ancient education. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 27 (2) 189-208.
(2005) The First Educator? Rethinking the teacher through Luce Irigarays philosophy of sexual difference. Australian Educational Researcher 32 (1), 83-100.
(2004) Destroying the Pedagogical Imaginary. Some Implications of Sexual Difference for Educational Philosophy. Educational Philosophy and Theory 36 (4), 399-415.
(2003) Avatars of Art Pedagogy in New South Wales History of Education Review 32 (1), 66-83.
(2003) Ellen Waugh and the Training of Art Teachers in New South Wales, in K. Grauer, R. L. Irwin, E. Zimmerman, (Eds) Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time, Reston, Va., National Art Education Association, pp 84-91.
(2003) Mapping Histories of Art Education in New South Wales Historical Studies in Education/Revue DHistoire De LEducation 15 (2) (Fall) 299-326.
(2002) A Homo-sexual Ideology in the History of NSW Art Education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society 10 (1) 5-20.
(2002) Mapping Art as a Matriculation Subject in NSW Education. History of Education Review 31 (1) 51-68.
(2002) Tracing a History of an Approach to Art Teaching. A Historical Study of an Art Education Documentary Film. Studies in Art Education 43 (3) 264-277.
(2000) A Secret Tribunal in the History of NSW Art Education. Australian Art Education (23) 2, 4-15.
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