Dr Emese Hall
Senior Lecturer in Art Education
Emese.Hall@exeter.ac.uk
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+44 (0) 1392 724883
Baring Court BC215
Baring Court, University of Exeter St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Previously a primary and early years teacher, I began working in teacher education at Exeter in 2005. With a degree in architecture, and a love of textiles, a holistic understanding of visual literacy informs my academic practice. Alongside the broad areas of drawing and reflection, I am particularly interested in the value of professional learning communities and artist-teacher identities. I care deeply about environmental justice and am a passionate degrowth advocate. My current research focuses on how art education can address the Earth Crisis.
I lecture on the PGCE Primary programme and lead the Upper Primary Art pathway. I am also a visual arts specialist on the MA Creative Arts in Education programme and supervise MA and PhD students in researching various aspects of primary and/or visual arts education.
I am formerly Vice President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design [NSEAD], Chair of the NSEAD Art Education for the Environment and Climate Emergency Research Group, and Co-ordinator of the NSEAD Regional Network Group Exeter Area Art Educators. I am Co-Editor (with Nigel Meager) of the Pedagogy Volume of the International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education (published by Wiley-Blackwell, Feb 2019). Between Oct 2020-March 2021, I held the position of Subject Lead for Primary Art, Craft and Design for Oak National Academy.
Previous external positions of responsibilty include a Member of the National Expert Subject Advisory Group for Art and Design Education, Member of the NSEAD Publications Board, and a South West Regional Network Co-ordinator for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), PGCE, MEd, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Research group links
- Centre for Research in Professional Learning
- Centre for Creativity, Sustainability and Educational Futures
Research
Research interests
My research interests are situated within the broad field of 'visual arts education', with a particular focus on art in primary schools. I am also very interested in teachers' professional learning (both ITE and CPD), interpretive methodologies and visual research methods. I have recently investigated artist-teacher identity through making, including reflection on my own practice, and I am currently looking at the connections between art and environmental awareness and action.
In my PhD research (Hall, 2010) I sought to explore the communicative potential of young children's drawings by making case studies of children (aged 4-6) in an early years class. This research built on the work of those who have used socio-cultural theories to investigate the influence of context on young children's drawing, meaning making, and representation at home and in school.
The Communicative Potential of Young Children's Drawings
Research projects
Visual journals to support the professional development of trainee teachers
Creative teaching and learning in Higher Education (funded by the University of Malaya, with research teams in England, Malaysia and Thailand)
Cambridge Primary Review Trust (CPRT) Research Schools
Collaborative drawing with EAL Learners
Professional networking in art and design education
PROTEACH: Promoting teachers' success in their induction period (Erasmus+ project funded by the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport)
Visual art education in new times: Connecting Art with REal life issues (CARE) - an Erasmus+ funded research project aimed at enhancing visual arts education with education for sustainable development within primary education
Artist Teacher Sketchbook Practice for Professional Learning
Transforming professional identities through arts-based research
Think, Talk, Make Art: Newlyn Art Gallery Schools Partnership – a Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded research project to enhance primary teachers’ professional learning in art education across schools in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Research networks
Ecological Citizen(s) Network+
GW4 Climate Justice Education Research Network
National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
International Society of Education Through Art (InSEA)
The Royal Society for Arts, manufactures and commerce (RSA)
Degrowth UK
International Ecolinguistics Association [IEA]
European Network for Visual Literacy (ENViL)
Exeter Area Art Educators (EAAE)
Publications
Journal articles
Chapters
Teaching
2023-24
PGCE Primary
Module Leader for Upper Primary Art
Tutor for Curriculum Studies: Art
MA Ed Creative Arts
Special Field Tutor for Visual Arts
Tutor for Arts EducationTheory, Practice and Potential
PhD Education
Co-Supervisor to Cathy Zhang