Dr Paul Reader
Fixed Term Lecturer (0.4), Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Contact
| Email: | Paul.Reader@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) |
| Homepage: | http://www.artlearn.net.au/ |
Areas of Teaching
I currently teach Adult Learning and Learning in Social Movements, units in the area of contextual studies. I supervise post-graduate research projects that involve qualitative research and art-based research in the learning adults, vocation training and development.
Research interests
Lifeplace Learning: Adult learning with place and life/spiritual referents
Ecological Cultural Practice: How people adopt new ways of living which take account of their relationships with other living things. I’ve been exploring the associations between learning and ecological design, ideas and practice of ecological self-portraiture, and artistic ways in which people learn and express themselves in life, being and living in their environment.
Changing Discourses: I’m interested in the envisioning of post-consumer society, pre/post Modern understanding of human agency in the light of environmental change, social and ecological justice; how people resist change, experience transformations, how epistemes lose validity and new discourses form.
Doctoral Thesis
Painterly Methodology: painting and digital inquiry in adult learning. Doctorate conferred 2008. Elliot Eisner Award for doctoral dissertation (runner up) 2009 Seminar for Research in Art Education, Visual Arts Research, and the National Art Education Association, U.S.A.
Publications and Conference Submissions
Scholarly book chapters
‘Analysing and constructing knowledge through pictures’ in Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education, Sara Delamont (ed), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (pp16) (2012)
Refereed journal articles
'A painterly methodology for learning and research', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 21:3, 297 - 311 ERA ranking: A (2008)
‘Virtual and real spaces of the regional artist’, Aust. & NZ. Journal of Art V2 No1 2001:168 -180 ERA ranking: A (2001)
Conference submissions
‘Could Ecological Self-Portraiture Be Useful In Reframing Learning Priorities For A Post-Carbon World?’ Ecological & Community Justice, 2011 Conference of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, USA (referred and accepted, April 2011)
‘From alienation to repossession: developing a theory of active agency in ecological transformative learning through reflection on a global life journey’ Human Agency and Biographical Transformations, European Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA) Geneva 3-6 March 2011 CDROM June 2011
Ecological self-portraiture, reconnecting through transformative learning, Tradition and Transformation, 2010 Conference of The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the University of South Australia (1-4 December 2010, accepted and presented)
‘“Learning in community” making sense of home education and the changing context of schooling’, Entering the Age of an Educational Renaissance: Ideas for unity of purpose or further discord? 37th Annual Conference The Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society, (November 2009, referred, accepted and presented)
‘Approaches to visual knowledge for hypermedia, training and development’ Imagining Business: Reflecting on the visual power of management, organising and governing practices, European Institute for Advanced Studies In Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. (June 2008)
‘Applying a painterly methodology to hyper-mediated knowledge construction in sustainability education’ ED-Media, Vienna, (July 2008) AACE ISBN 1 880094-65-7
‘Hypermedia in Evaluation of a Year-long Learning Contract’ International Society for Teacher Education Conference, (April 2008)
Visual Diversity: Is painting an indicator of lost learning theory? Proceedings: 35th.Annual Conference, Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA), University of Sussex , (July 2005) pp321-328. ISBN 0-904242-50-01
Research Of Painting Practice Using Hypermedia, and Its Application For Development Of Free-Form Web-Based Teaching Materials, Designs on E-Learning Proceedings, University of the Arts, London (September 2005) ISBN 1-903455-09-X
More than the eye can see: being in the world through painting Australian Institute of Art Education Conference, Griffith University QLD (2004)
Art & New Technologies in Regional Regeneration, Groundswell National Regional Arts Conference Albury (Oct 11 2002)
Smart Missiles: The changing role of the artist, on-line art schools and "citizen artistry", Rural/Regional Art, Aust. & NZ. Journal of Art conference N.S.W. (September 2000)
Other community based publications
Quality Assurance Considerations for Private Providers: Meeting AUQA audit & NSW Guidelines and AQTF standards [report] August 2003 with Prof. Larrry Smith, Australian Council of Private Education & Training
Arabana, Antikirinya and South Aranda Lands Report to the National Estate Grants Committee, Oodnadatta Aboriginal Community Council, 1983
Contributor to Nunawading North Neighbourhood Centre P Slattery [ed.] 1982 (book)