Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr Geraldine Burke is an artist, researcher, teacher-educator lecturing into visual and creative arts education at Monash University (Melbourne and Singapore). She is passionate about art-based educational research and how it can be employed to explore issues of our time. Her research engages with artistic practice, pedagogy and community projects. She has an enduring interest in how local knowledge, place and immersive a/r/t (art, research, and teaching) develop across kindergartens, schools, seniors and community groups. Her Masters in Art and Design was by exhibition and exegesis and her PhD (by photo-book and exegesis) explored immersive art pedagogy. Recent arts-based projects explore art and wellbeing through intergenerational/community and Museum connections; intergenerational art pedagogy within Australian and Chinese contexts; Plastic Ocean Provocations (POP!) with/in Oceanic and Pacific regions and the ‘Our Waste, Our place, Our Actions’ Place-making grant.
Geraldine has taught art in a range of countries and across a range of age groups. Recently she worked on an intergenerational art education project with Monash/Hangzhou Normal University (with pre-service teachers, young children and seniors), and was an invited Outstanding Educator in Residence (OEIR) - with the Ministry of Education’s, Singapore's Teachers' Academy for the Arts (STAR) on four occasions.
Geraldine is currently co-leader of the Art, Creativity and Education Faculty research Group at Monash Faculty of Education and teaches into a number of early childhood and primary units. In Singapore and Melbourne, she works into the ‘Art, Community and Environment’ unit while also teaching the Creative Connections: Visual Arts unit in Melbourne. This sees Geraldine include ART-REACH experiences with kindergarten/school children, pre-service teachers, seniors and cultural institutions as a means to build vibrant social and ecological connections through art. Recently Geraldine was a keynote speaker, workshop planner/convenor for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Education day for Monash Child Care services. This saw her explore and develop intersections between art, environment and community through the Gallery’s collection via workshops and seminars that encouraged active connections between early childhood learning and cultural institutions. In 2019 Geraldine was a speaker/delegate at the ECEC Talanoa Pasifika symposium, Fiji, where she explored the role of art in early childhood education in pacific/global contexts as relevant to UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.
As a researcher and PhD Supervisor Geraldine priveledges the intersection of material knowledge, image and text as a means to explore given topics.
Community service
ART-REACH: Making intergenerational connections through the arts
Geraldine is a keen advocate for ART-REACH as a means to build intergenerational connections through the arts. ART-REACH enables Monash Faculty of Education to build connections with community through creative inquiry. Through ART-REACH our pre-service teachers (Primary and Early Childhood) join with children from local Schools and Early Learning Centres, and/or local seniors, in order to build innovative art/s experiences that share generational knowledge on issues and topics that matter.
Research interests
- Reimagining art education through intergenerational learning
- Participatory arts based research as a tool for wellbeing
- Activating art education for ecological awareness
- A/r/tography, arts based research, immersive art pedagogy, narrative inquiry
- Art in Early childhood, Primary and community contexts
- Art REACH: creative connections through the arts
Monash teaching commitment
- EDF1063: Creative Connections: Visual Arts (Peninsula/Flexible) Chief Examiner/Unit Coordinator/Lecturer
- EDF3181: Art, Community and Environment (Peninsula & Singapore/Flexible) Chief Examiner/Unit Coordinator/Lecturer
- EDF4026: Arts Education in the Primary Years (Peninsula & Clayton) Chief Examiner/Unit Coordinator/Lecturer
- EDF5034: Arts and Design in Primary Education (Peninsula & Online) Chief Examiner/Unit Coordinator/Lecturer
Supervision interests
I am interested to supervise PhD students who engage with arts-based educational research through a/r/tography or participatory projects.
Research area keywords
- Immersive Art Pedagogy
- Participatory art-based research
- A/r/tography
- Art-based research pedagogy and methods
- Intergenerational learning
- Art and Wellbeing
- Art and environment
Network
Projects
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Uncharted waters: Bluespace connection initiatives for wellbeing, education and planetary health
lisahunter, L. H., Burke, G., Humberstone, B. & Sumartojo, S.
24/09/20 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Numeracy across the curriculum research project
Kidman, G., Hall, J., Forgasz, H., Burke, G., Belford, N. & Leahy, D.
20/04/20 → 26/06/20
Project: Research
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OWOPOA: Our Waste, Our Place, Our Actions: Intergenerational community arts project
13/06/19 → 17/12/19
Project: Other
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Our Waste, Our Place, Our Actions: Intergenerational community arts project
Burke, G. & Wilson, E.
13/06/19 → 17/12/19
Project: Other
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BLCSI 2019: Building Leadership for Change through School Immersion 2019
Tudball, E., Adams, M., Lancaster, G., Johnson, L., Smith, K., Burke, G., Rady, D., Round, P., George, S., Welch, R., Pruyn, M., Creely, E., Gesthuizen, R., Tan, H., Burke, J., Mansfield, J., Clarke, S., Kewalramani, S., McLeod, A., Kalogeropoulos, P. & Ozzimo, C.
15/04/19 → 14/02/20
Project: Research
Research output
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The invisible hand: Designing curriculum in the afterward
McKnight, L. J., Rousell, D., Charteris, J., Thomas, K. & Burke, G., 9 Aug 2017, In : International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 30, 7, p. 635-655 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
A-ha! Animal habitat art: creating connections in, about, and through art and nature
Burke, G., 2016, Education in Times of Environmental Crises: Teaching Children to Be Agents of Change. Winograd, K. (ed.). 1st ed. New York NY USA: Routledge, p. 65-78 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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What's there, what if, what then, and what can we do? An immersive and embodied experience of environment and place through children's literature
Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Gutierrez, K. (ed.), Burke, G. & Larson, J. (ed.), 2011, p. 1 - 1. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Art educators’ professional learning: reflecting together to consider ontologies of quality in our praxis
Selkrig, M., Wright, S., Hannigan, S., Burke, G. & Grenfell, J., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Teaching in Higher Education. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Burring a velvet line
Burke, G., 2020, In : International Journal of Fear Studies. 2, 2, p. 15-19 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Creative Work › Other › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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Finalist, MGA Supervisor of the year 2019
Burke, Geraldine (Recipient), 27 Nov 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Sustainable Communities: Tidy Towns 2020 Awards Finalist
Geraldine Burke (Contributor), Elizabeth Wilson (Contributor) & Kathleen Lord (Contributor)
18 Aug 2020Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Collaboration on community projects
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Children + participatory design + sustainable futures symposium,
Geraldine Burke (Invited speaker)
14 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Humanities in the Regions 2020
Louise Phillips (Session chair), Kathryn Coleman (Speaker) & Geraldine Burke (Speaker)
5 May 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Art/Community/Environment (ACE): Our Waste/Our Place/Our Actions
Geraldine Burke (Organiser)
27 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Regional Early Childhood Education and Care in the Pacific Talanoa Symposium
Geraldine Burke (Invited speaker) & Kelesi Whippy (Speaker)
25 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
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How COVID allows educators to creatively connect to the arts
25/09/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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