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Teaching commitmentResearch InterestsChris trained as a specialist in visual arts curriculum and pedagogy, and continues to publish in this discipline. Since 2003 he has broadened his research interests to address a range of related theoretical and practical issues informing educational philosophy and historical theory, especially sexuality, gender and theorisations of pedagogic bodies. This work demands a careful interrogation of the empirical foundations of current educational research paradigms, and a search for appropriate alternatives that will enable teachers to think through the symbols and images which are routinely employed in educational discourse. He is currently focusing on early childhood educational research, to investigate the possibility of early childhood's non-identity in educational symbols of mastery and power. He is also interested in theories of neonatal learning and the re-theorisation of dominant developmental psychologisms.
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.
Professional Associations
- Chris is a member of Art Education Australia
EditorialChris is joint Managing Editor (with Dr Joseph Agbenyega) of the journal of International Research in Early Childhood Education (commencing online in 2010 - formerly the journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education.)
Publications(2009) A post-developmentalism? Using Vygotsky to see the redundancy of psychology for educational thought. Australian Research in Early Childhood Education 16 (1) 9-17.
(2008) A post-developmental frameowrk for the Visual Arts in early childhood? How art and cognition intersect as concepts in early childhood educational discourse. Australian Research in Early Childhood Education 15 (2) 87-98.
(2008) Investigating myths and perceptions of Visual Arts Education. Findings of a pilot study on current practices in Visual Arts pedagogy in Victorian primary schools. Australian Art Education 31 (1) 99-123.
(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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