Abbey MacDonald

Abbey MacDonald

Arts-based researcher, teacher and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Tasmania.

Dr Abbey MacDonald is an arts-based researcher, teacher and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Tasmania. She brings to all aspects of her work a strong personal focus upon art making, Arts advocacy, teacher professional learning, community engagement and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She enjoys working with Arts industry and philanthropic organisations looking to collaborate with education transformation stakeholders and has been recognised for her contributions to enacting interdisciplinary curriculum and online teaching. Dr MacDonald is Vice President of Art Education Australia and the Tasmanian Art Teachers Association.

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Art education: Using new resources and skills
Art education: Using new resources and skills
June 03,2020

In the second of two articles, Kate Coleman and Abbey MacDonald explore some of the resources to eventuate from the creative pressure cooker circumstances of the COVID-19 lockdown, and how they can be used to maximise studio time and learning into the future.
arts, visual arts, learning activities, teacher education, curriculum implementation, education resources, reader submission, short articles
Art education during the COVID-19 lockdown
Art education during the COVID-19 lockdown
June 02,2020

In the first of two articles, teacher educators Kate Coleman and Abbey MacDonald share practical examples of how visual arts teachers and artists transformed the ways they connected and communicated with students, and each other, during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown to ensure a continuity of learning.
the arts, visual arts, learning activities, teacher education, curriculum implementation, professional learning, reader submission, long reads