Prof Georgina Barton

Name | Prof Georgina Barton |
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Email Address | georgina.barton@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Professor (Literacies and Pedagogy) |
Qualifications | DipT BrisbaneCAE, BA Qld, GCertHigherEd Griffith, PhD QUT |
Department | School of Education |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-238X |
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Biography
Dr Georgina Barton is a Professor of literacies and pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her main research areas are literacy, the arts and wellbeing. She has over 160 publications and over $1.5 million in grants in these fields. Her most recent book is title: Aesthetic literacies in school and work: New pathways for education. She conducts socially-just research in schools both in Australia and internationally.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Professor | University of Southern Queensland | 2017 |
Expertise
literacy, the arts, wellbeing
Teaching
EDM8013, EDM8007
Fields of Research
- 390101. Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
- 390104. English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
- 390303. Higher education
- 390412. Teacher and student wellbeing
DipT
BrisbaneCAE
1990
BA
Qld
1993
GCertHigherEd
Griffith
2016
PhD
QUT
2004
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Illumination of the Self: Life Review through Sandplay Therapy with older adults | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Towards a social imagination in Music Education: An action research case study exploring educating school musicians as social changemakers within an aesthetic educational framework. | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Investigating the teaching of reading among home educating families in the early years of education | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
The Rhythmic Sounds of Nature: An ecological exploration of how the living environment inspires creative compositions in music | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Identifying students' expressive language proficiency in diverse early years classrooms through multimodal text creation: A narrative study. | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
The development of expertise in the teaching of reading by early career primary school teachers: Personal and workplace factors. | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Critical Media Literacy and English for Academic Purposes: An Examination of Teacher and Student Perspectives and Practices | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Picturing Values: A Positive Discourse Analysis of Chinese and Australian Children's Picturebooks and Children's Understanding of Values | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Investigating the effects of coaching and mentoring for non-English-major teachers in their use of English in rural schools in Thailand | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO PARTICIPATION IN LEARNING AND FUTURE EMPLOYABILITY FOR STUDENTS WITH BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION IN AUSTRALIAN MAINSTREAM SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A BIOECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
The book detectives: Metafictive devices and the development of critical literacy in Year 3 students | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Social Sciences, Humanities Research Council - Canada | This project explores supporting students in low SES schools to engage with quality art to improve their literacy skills. Students create Instapoetry in response to visiting art galleries in-person and online. | 2021 |
Australian Research Council - Discovery | The WORD project is about reflexive approaches to teaching writing in schools. | 2018 |
Office for Learning and Teaching | Work placement for international students (WISP). This project focused on supporting international students and other stakeholders during work placement. | 2014 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2015 | Keynote speak at International Symposium on the arts and culture | Lyon University and UNESCO | |
2016 | Tony Adams Fund | International Education Association Australia | |
2020 | Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) | HEA | |
2017 | Australian Literacy Educators' Association Fellow | ALEA | |
2023 | Global Leaders Institute - Master in Business Administration, arts entrepreneurship cohort 2023 | Global Leaders Institute | |
2014 | Executive Welcome Address Global Summit | World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) | |
2014 | Learning and Teaching Award - Innovation development grant | Griffith University and Office for Learning and Teaching |