Abbey MacDonald

Experience

• 2016–present
  Senior Lecturer, Arts Education, University of Tasmania

Education

• 2015 
  University of Tasmania, PhD
• 2008 
  University of Tasmania, BTeach (Hons)
• 2005 
  University of Tasmania, BFA (Hons)

Publications

• 2020
  Strangers on a train: The politics of collaboration, Australian Educational Researcher
• 2020
  Principles for a pedagogy of unlearning, Reflective Practice
• 2019
  Talking to and about teachers: Resisting deficit discourses, Professional Educator
• 2019
  STEM and STEAM and the spaces between: an overview of education agendas pertaining to disciplinarity' across three Australian states, Journal of STEM Education
• 2019
  Designing STEAM education: fostering relationality through design-led disruption, The International Journal of Art & Design Education
• 2019
  Converging discipline perspectives to inform the design and delivery of STEAM teacher professional learning, Australian Art Education
• 2018
  Sanitising landscapes: Implications for meaning making, Journal of Artistic and Creative Education
• 2018
  Creative Leadership and the Hadley's Art Prize Hobart (HAPH), Australian Art Education
• 2018
  Dancing around drawn edges: Reimagining deficit storylines as sites for relational Arts teacher professional learning collaboration, Australian Art Education
• 2017
  The Museum Diorama: Caught between art and history, Australian Art Education
• 2017
  A/r/tographic inquiry in sport and exercise research: a pilot study examining methodology versatility, feasibility and participatory opportunities, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
• 2017
  A War Imagined: Gallipoli and the art of children's picture books, Australian Art Education
• 2017
  Good Teachers Grow: Disrupting negative depictions of teachers through relational a/r/tographic inquiry, Australian Art Education
• 2017
  From the wing chair: Stories from and about the experience of living and working in a Tasmanian boarding school, International Journal of Practice Based Humanities
• 2017
  Collaboration as metaphoric construct and guiding practice in art-making and teaching: A multimodal rendering, Studies in Art Education
• 2017
  A diptych of dilemma: Becoming an artist and a teacher, International Journal of Education Through Art
• 2017
  The Relational Art Inquiry Tool: Supporting participants and researchers from non-Arts backgrounds to engage in and with a/r/tography, Revista VIS: Revista do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Arte
• 2017
  And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda: Australian picture books (1999-2016) and the First World War, Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly
• 2016
  Teachers' curriculum stories: perceptions and preparedness to enact change, Educational Philosophy and Theory
• 2015
  The Formation of the Australian Arts Education Practice and Research Special Interest Group (AEPR SIG), Australian Art Education
• 2015
  Borderlands: traversing spaces between art making and research, Qualitative Research Journal
• 2014
  Defining professional self: Teacher educator perspectives of the Pre-ECR journey', Australian Journal of Teacher Education
• 2013
  Seeing the bigger picture: investigating the state of the arts in teacher education programs in Australia', Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Professional Memberships

• Vice President - Art Education Australia
• Vice President - Tasmanian Art Teachers Association

Research Areas

• Teacher Education And Professional Development Of Educators (130313)
• Creative Arts, Media And Communication Curriculum And Pedagogy (130201)
• Fine Arts (Incl. Sculpture And Painting) (190502)
• Visual Cultures (190104)
• Art Criticism (190101)
• Museum Studies (210204)
• Sociological Methodology And Research Methods (160807)
• Secondary Education (130106)
• Higher Education (130103)

Honours

The Educator’s Higher Education Rising Stars (2020); Teachers Mutual Bank - ATEA Teacher Educator of the Year (2019)