Arts Education Teaching and Research Group

Our focus

Our group is committed to research-led pedagogy, and research-led curriculum design and implementation in order to provide critically well-informed practices related to discipline-based and interdisciplinary arts education learning.

We're committed to a critically open, democratic, inclusive and socially just global community, and invest our efforts in providing educational experiences that contribute to this vision.

In particular, we believe educators are professionals who should be familiar with the contested natures of both curriculum and pedagogy in order to exercise their professional autonomy through their valuing, judgements and activities.

We consider it is our role to support all educators in their professional learning in order to contribute to the public good.

Study opportunities

We offer core arts education units in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in early childhood, primary and secondary teacher education.

Specialist methodologies are offered in dance, drama, media, music and visual art in early childhood, in a P–Year 10 context and in the VCE years of learning.