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SUMMARY:The transformative capacity of play and the arts for learning and 
 student engagement: implications for pre-service teacher education - Dr Ja
 nice K Jones\, Faculty of Education\, University of Southern Queensland
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CONTACT:Pamela Burnard
DESCRIPTION:A researcher in creativity\, capacity building and teacher edu
 cation for social justice\, Janice is a lecturer in arts education and und
 ergraduate program coordinator for the Bachelor of Education Program at th
 e University of Southern Queensland. A Churchill Fellow and member of the 
 Australian Association for Research in Education and Higher Education Rese
 arch and Development Society of Australasia\, Janice is also a member of r
 esearch groups focusing upon community development and technologies in edu
 cation. Her career as an educator has taken her from the United Kingdom to
  Canada\, Turkey\, Korea and Australia. \n\nData gathered during Janice’
 s participatory research in a non-traditional primary school and with pre-
 service teachers over a 3 year period suggests that a curriculum which evo
 lves from play and the arts may transform students’ personal and social 
 development. However\, study findings also point to a gap between the ‘t
 alk’ of transformative pedagogies\, sustainability and lifelong learning
  and the practices of educators within the constraining influences of gove
 rnment-mandated curricula\, testing and reporting. This gap challenges edu
 cators to create a third space (Bhabha\, 1994) for learner agency and tran
 sformation.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om GS4
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