Research Overview

My research is in western and indigenous curriculum design. It develops perspectives on how those who create pictures may meaningfully expand their audiences and practices beyond convention. Indigenous Buddhist painting curricula, for example, may signify the colour, blue, as peace and inner world transformation for religious audiences. Western curricula may signify its sensorial or outward world capacity, to engage online gamers in feeling the weight and rhythm of a moving vehicle. Instead of focusing on how inner and outward world signifiers may be at odds, my research decodes them as sometimes relational, imbued in learning opportunities that can evolve to impact, and be impacted, by globalised knowledge economies.