Graduate Student, Graduate School of Education
About
Why do people make art? What can we learn from art? How can we use the arts to better understand ourselves and our world? And what does it mean to understand something, anyway? These are the questions which drive me.
I'm a candidate for an Ed.D in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education - my advisor is Howard Gardner.
I hold an M.Ed in Arts in Education from the same institution, and an MA in Education with Drama and English from the University of Cambridge (1:1). I am privileged to have been made a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, which has enabled me to continue my studies.
I am fascinated by all the places in which the study of the arts and of the mind collide. Currently, I'm working on synthesising decriptions of art-making and art-appreciation from different disciplines and different levels of analysis.
In addition, I work on broad questions in the Philosophy of Education, including "How might we educate for freedom?" and "Why study the traditional subject disciplines?"
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