Dr Kathryn Grushka is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle’s School of Education. Kathryn is a nationally recognised Visual Arts & Design Educator, curriculum writer and artist/tapestry designer/weaver. Originally trained as a visual art secondary teacher she now works in visual learning and creative arts pre-service teacher education.
In teaching and learning Kathryn’s research is centred on ensuring the most explicit links between research insights into cognition, embodied visual knowing and subjectivity insights. This research links to the fields of visual art, design, creative arts, visual digital technologies, critical and performative pedagogies and knowledge as visual representations.
In the wider field of education, life-long learning and health Kathryn researches in the areas of: artmaking, visual narrative, subjectivity, learning and the links to health and well-being. In particular, artmaking, the imagination, reflective practice, adaptive knowledge and transformative learning. She draws significantly on research methods evolving from arts inquiry and narrative methodologies. Kathryn currently sits on international and national editorial teams for art and teacher education journals. |
