Aesthetic Literacies in School and Work

Dr Georgina Barton is a Professor of literacies and pedagogy in the School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. She was a teacher and leader in schools for over 20 years, including as Head of the Arts. Her research areas include literacies, multimodality, and the arts in education, often working with socio-cultural diverse groups using arts-based research methods.

• Introduction.- Aesthetics education.- Aesthetic literacies in educational policy and curriculum.- Aesthetics in the workforce.- Teaching and assessing aesthetic literacies.- The importance of aesthetics in educational spaces.- Aesthetics in learning and teaching relationships.- Theorising aesthetic literacies in educational research.- Future implications for schools and students.