Dr Peter Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Education. His research interests include teaching, learning and healing in, through, and with the Arts; Artistically-based approaches to educational research; Culture, Creativity and Community Development; Drama Education; Applied Theatre; Transformational Learning and Teacher Development in the Arts; and Playback Theatre. Peter currently coordinates and teaches in Primary Arts Education Curriculum Units, postgraduate Arts Education units and Qualitative Research Methods. Peter is an active researcher and is currently involved with two projects with Big hART a social impact of the Arts Company. He has contributed to a number of externally funded research projects including funding through National Youth Affairs Research Scheme. He was project director for DEST/Australia Council funded National Review of Education in Visual Arts, Craft, Design and Visual Education. Peter has supervised or co-supervised theses in a range of areas with topics including the intersection of the arts with religious education and environmental education, graffiti and “legal” walls, performance art as a tool for education, the development of mentor relationships in the training of musicians, arts education and the practicing visual artist, adult learning in the professional theatre, and an exploration of bi-cultural identity through the Arts. Peter is a member of the International Arts Education Research Network (Australia Council for the Arts/UNESCO), and the UNESCO LEA (Links to Education and Art) International Network of Experts in Arts Education. Most recently Peter acted as an editor for a special themed issue of Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research on Performative Social Science.

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