Georgina Barton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina Barton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina |
| FAMILY NAME | Barton |
| SIGNATURE | BARTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2703-238X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Creativity, ecology and leadership
Leading in today’s university contexts can be extremely challenging given the systemic constraints and a steep decrease in people’s wellbeing due to uncertainty in the sector and across the globe. Leaders must, therefore, reflect often on the context in which they work but also to protect their wellbeing. In this paper, we share reflections about instances in our leadership experience related to the various patterns in nature. As both creative ar…
Reading assessment for autistic students
Reading outcomes remain a priority for all students. While many general strategies have been offered to effectively assess reading in children in general, there is limited research exploring teachers’ assessment of reading for autistic students specifically. In this study, we were interested in how teachers assess reading for autistic students in their school contexts. We interviewed nine teachers, who worked across early childhood, primary and s…
Enablers and constraints to teacher educator wellbeing amidst institutional accountability cultures
The work of contemporary teacher educators in university contexts is under increasing political and public scrutiny as the focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reform intensifies. Consequently, there are growing concerns for teacher educators’ wellbeing amidst escalating expectations and pressures. While research has explored the wellbeing of university academics more generally, less is understood about teacher educators more specifically. Th…
Being and belonging – identifying “invisible” children and young people's voices within educational contexts in regional, rural and remote Australian communities
This systematic literature review (SLR) examines empirical research on marginalised children and young peoples' sense of belonging in regional, rural and remote (RRR) Australian educational contexts. Following PRISMA Guidelines and utilizing JBI quality appraisal tools, five databases were searched. Inclusion criteria encompassed English-language, online full-text peer-reviewed empirical studies from RRR Australia. Fourteen studies (four qualitat…
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world
The world is becoming increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). How education systems, policies and practices respond to the challenges facing young people and their communities is of critical importance, including questions of pedagogy and curriculum in mainstream and alternative education contexts. Knowing how systems and institutions can address the challenges of a VUCA world is important in strivi…
Postdigital Videogames Literacies
This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy . Gee’s book, a foundational text for those working in game studies, literacy studies, and education, identified 36 principles of ‘good learning’ which he argued were built into the design of good games, and which have since been used to unsettle the landscape of formal education. This article brings togeth…
Teaching poetry using Instagram
Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with each other across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry—poetry with images on Instagram—has been part of such communication and provides a good entry point into adolescents’ engagement with…
Teaching creative writing in primary schools
Teaching writing is complex and research related to approaches that support students’ understanding and outcomes in written assessment is prolific. Written aspects including text structure, purpose, and language conventions appear to be explicit elements teachers know how to teach. However, more qualitative and nuanced elements of writing such as authorial voice and creativity have received less attention. We conducted a systematic literature rev…
Reflexivity and children’s exploration of moral aesthetics in creative writing
In this paper, we show how children’s creativity manifests in literary aesthetics and how they explore moral subjects as a result. Literary aesthetics involve a range of artistic elements or expressions within a textual work. Writers may use aesthetic properties to express individual appreciation or how people view the world, often in relation to moral values. This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relation between ae…
Publishing in the academy
Publishing in the academy is a high-stakes activity often used to measure academic staff progress and inform promotion. Many universities have increased pressure on academics, even at the earliest stages of their careers, to publish in high-ranking journals resulting in increased stress and uncertainty. The authors of this paper are members of a writing group in an Australian regional university, established to support each other towards success …
PhD by LMS
Doctoral studies can be daunting unless candidates are able to implement effective self-directed strategies and motivational tools to ensure success, which is reflected in the high attrition rates of doctoral candidates globally. This paper explores the use of a learning management system (LMS) to support the completion of a PhD for a doctoral candidate in a regional university enrolled in the online offering. The LMS was used throughout the PhD …
Enablers and barriers to equitable participation for students with blindness or low vision in Australian mainstream secondary schools
A global commitment to inclusive education through policies and legislation has been espoused to provide equitable access to the curriculum for students with disability. Recent evidence suggests, however, that for students with blindness or low vision (BLV), the visual nature of the curriculum means that content can be inaccessible. This study explored the barriers and enablers that students with BLV encounter when engaging with the curriculum. E…
I get all my ideas from the tree”
Despite the importance of writing skills to school and life success, there is scant research into the enabling and constraining conditions that shape elementary students’ views about their writing practices. This paper examines students’ views about writing through the lens of reflexivity theory. Applying an explanatory sequential model of mixed-method design, it first describes the development of a self-report questionnaire to investigate the vi…
Instapoésie
INSTAPOÉSIE : DE L’ESPACE DE PARTAGE LITTÉRAIRE VIRTUEL À LA PRODUCTION DE TEXTES POÉTIQUES EN CLASSE DU SECONDAIRE. Un article de la revue Revue de recherches en littératie médiatique multimodale (Développer la créativité en didactique : pratiques multimodales et numériques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Culturally responsive and meaningful music education
Music is learned and taught in multiple ways dependent on the socio-cultural contexts in which learning occurs. The processes employed by music teachers have been extensively explored by music educators and ethnomusicologists in a range of contexts, although there has been limited research into which modes are most predominantly used in different socio-cultural contexts. Further, it is unknown how students make meaning in these different contexts…
Instagram and the museum experience
Many museum or art gallery visitors record their experience through social media platforms. Instagram is a case in point. Instagram is an application for mobile devices where people post images and comments, sharing their experiences in different places, with different people. This paper shares data from a project exploring people’s art gallery visitations and how they engage with Instagram in such spaces. The research aimed to answer the followi…
A Reflexive Approach to Teaching Writing
Writing requires a high level of nuanced decision-making related to language, purpose, audience, and medium. Writing teachers thus need a deep understanding of language, process, and pedagogy, and of the interface between them. This article draws on reflexivity theory to interrogate the pedagogical priorities and perspectives of 19 writing teachers in primary classrooms across Australia. Data are composed of teacher interview transcripts and nuan…
Language Is a Verb
A group of students huddle around a table to discuss their written assessment task—an essay on a topic of interest or issue they face in their everyday lives. One of the students says,\n" I need to write my paper completely over...do you guys like want to be like everyone else because you don’t want to be who you really are? (Beach & Beauchemin, 2019, p. 1)."
Recollage as a tool for self-care
Purpose Working in the academy can be both challenging and exciting as it can be trying and difficult to negotiate if one is unprepared. Past research has acknowledged the importance of reflective practice in order to face such trials positively. This study utilises arts-based/multimodal reflection to contemplate the lived experience of one early career researcher in her first five years of employment. Adopting an arts-based approach, the researc…
Literacy teachers as reflexive agents? Enablers and constraints
Emotion Resonance and Divergence
Music and sound contributions of interpersonal meaning to film narratives may be different from or similar to meanings made by language and image, and dynamic interactions between several modalities may generate new story messages. Such interpretive potentials of music and voice sound in motion pictures are rarely considered in social semiotic investigations of intermodality. This paper therefore shares two semiotic studies of distinct and combin…
Exploring how arts-based reflection can support teachers' resilience and well-being
Teachers’ Curriculum Stories
Within the specific context of The Australian Curriculum: The Arts, this paper explores how teachers of the Arts and teacher educators encounter and enact curriculum change. Adopting Ewing’s notion that curriculum is a complex web of varying stories and storylines that are impacted on by teachers’ underlying philosophy, we suggest that Arts teachers embrace the intent behind The Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This paper unearths and explores in…
The Routledge Companion to English Studies
Although many different varieties of English have been spoken for several centuries, it is only surprisingly recently that the field of study that has become to be known as World Englishes has been established. A key figure in the field is Braj Kachru. His debate with the British linguist Randolph Quirk drew the boundaries between two distinct positions. Quirk’s (1985) position was that a single standardized form of English, based on British Engl…
The Spatialized Practices of Teaching Writing in Australian Elementary Schools
This paper discusses the teaching of writing within the competing and often contradictory spaces of high-stakes testing and the practices and priorities around writing pedagogy in diverse school communities. It uses sociospatial theory to examine the “real-and-imagined” spaces (Soja, 1996) that influence and are influenced by teachers’ pedagogical priorities for writing in two linguistically diverse elementary school case studies. Methods of crit…
Teachers’ Curriculum Stories
Within the specific context of The Australian Curriculum: The Arts, this paper explores how teachers of the Arts and teacher educators encounter and enact curriculum change. Adopting Ewing’s notion that curriculum is a complex web of varying stories and storylines that are impacted on by teachers’ underlying philosophy, we suggest that Arts teachers embrace the intent behind The Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This paper unearths and explores in…
Instagram and the museum experience
Many museum or art gallery visitors record their experience through social media platforms. Instagram is a case in point. Instagram is an application for mobile devices where people post images and comments, sharing their experiences in different places, with different people. This paper shares data from a project exploring people’s art gallery visitations and how they engage with Instagram in such spaces. The research aimed to answer the followi…
Exploring how arts-based reflection can support teachers' resilience and well-being
I get all my ideas from the tree”
Despite the importance of writing skills to school and life success, there is scant research into the enabling and constraining conditions that shape elementary students’ views about their writing practices. This paper examines students’ views about writing through the lens of reflexivity theory. Applying an explanatory sequential model of mixed-method design, it first describes the development of a self-report questionnaire to investigate the vi…
Emotion Resonance and Divergence
Music and sound contributions of interpersonal meaning to film narratives may be different from or similar to meanings made by language and image, and dynamic interactions between several modalities may generate new story messages. Such interpretive potentials of music and voice sound in motion pictures are rarely considered in social semiotic investigations of intermodality. This paper therefore shares two semiotic studies of distinct and combin…
The Routledge Companion to English Studies
Although many different varieties of English have been spoken for several centuries, it is only surprisingly recently that the field of study that has become to be known as World Englishes has been established. A key figure in the field is Braj Kachru. His debate with the British linguist Randolph Quirk drew the boundaries between two distinct positions. Quirk’s (1985) position was that a single standardized form of English, based on British Engl…
The Spatialized Practices of Teaching Writing in Australian Elementary Schools
This paper discusses the teaching of writing within the competing and often contradictory spaces of high-stakes testing and the practices and priorities around writing pedagogy in diverse school communities. It uses sociospatial theory to examine the “real-and-imagined” spaces (Soja, 1996) that influence and are influenced by teachers’ pedagogical priorities for writing in two linguistically diverse elementary school case studies. Methods of crit…
Teachers’ Curriculum Stories
Within the specific context of The Australian Curriculum: The Arts, this paper explores how teachers of the Arts and teacher educators encounter and enact curriculum change. Adopting Ewing’s notion that curriculum is a complex web of varying stories and storylines that are impacted on by teachers’ underlying philosophy, we suggest that Arts teachers embrace the intent behind The Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This paper unearths and explores in…
Emotion Resonance and Divergence
Music and sound contributions of interpersonal meaning to film narratives may be different from or similar to meanings made by language and image, and dynamic interactions between several modalities may generate new story messages. Such interpretive potentials of music and voice sound in motion pictures are rarely considered in social semiotic investigations of intermodality. This paper therefore shares two semiotic studies of distinct and combin…
Exploring how arts-based reflection can support teachers' resilience and well-being
Recollage as a tool for self-care
Purpose Working in the academy can be both challenging and exciting as it can be trying and difficult to negotiate if one is unprepared. Past research has acknowledged the importance of reflective practice in order to face such trials positively. This study utilises arts-based/multimodal reflection to contemplate the lived experience of one early career researcher in her first five years of employment. Adopting an arts-based approach, the researc…
Literacy teachers as reflexive agents? Enablers and constraints
A Reflexive Approach to Teaching Writing
Writing requires a high level of nuanced decision-making related to language, purpose, audience, and medium. Writing teachers thus need a deep understanding of language, process, and pedagogy, and of the interface between them. This article draws on reflexivity theory to interrogate the pedagogical priorities and perspectives of 19 writing teachers in primary classrooms across Australia. Data are composed of teacher interview transcripts and nuan…
Language Is a Verb
A group of students huddle around a table to discuss their written assessment task—an essay on a topic of interest or issue they face in their everyday lives. One of the students says,\n" I need to write my paper completely over...do you guys like want to be like everyone else because you don’t want to be who you really are? (Beach & Beauchemin, 2019, p. 1)."
Instapoésie
INSTAPOÉSIE : DE L’ESPACE DE PARTAGE LITTÉRAIRE VIRTUEL À LA PRODUCTION DE TEXTES POÉTIQUES EN CLASSE DU SECONDAIRE. Un article de la revue Revue de recherches en littératie médiatique multimodale (Développer la créativité en didactique : pratiques multimodales et numériques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Culturally responsive and meaningful music education
Music is learned and taught in multiple ways dependent on the socio-cultural contexts in which learning occurs. The processes employed by music teachers have been extensively explored by music educators and ethnomusicologists in a range of contexts, although there has been limited research into which modes are most predominantly used in different socio-cultural contexts. Further, it is unknown how students make meaning in these different contexts…
Instagram and the museum experience
Many museum or art gallery visitors record their experience through social media platforms. Instagram is a case in point. Instagram is an application for mobile devices where people post images and comments, sharing their experiences in different places, with different people. This paper shares data from a project exploring people’s art gallery visitations and how they engage with Instagram in such spaces. The research aimed to answer the followi…
Reflexivity and children’s exploration of moral aesthetics in creative writing
In this paper, we show how children’s creativity manifests in literary aesthetics and how they explore moral subjects as a result. Literary aesthetics involve a range of artistic elements or expressions within a textual work. Writers may use aesthetic properties to express individual appreciation or how people view the world, often in relation to moral values. This paper takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relation between ae…
Publishing in the academy
Publishing in the academy is a high-stakes activity often used to measure academic staff progress and inform promotion. Many universities have increased pressure on academics, even at the earliest stages of their careers, to publish in high-ranking journals resulting in increased stress and uncertainty. The authors of this paper are members of a writing group in an Australian regional university, established to support each other towards success …
PhD by LMS
Doctoral studies can be daunting unless candidates are able to implement effective self-directed strategies and motivational tools to ensure success, which is reflected in the high attrition rates of doctoral candidates globally. This paper explores the use of a learning management system (LMS) to support the completion of a PhD for a doctoral candidate in a regional university enrolled in the online offering. The LMS was used throughout the PhD …
Enablers and barriers to equitable participation for students with blindness or low vision in Australian mainstream secondary schools
A global commitment to inclusive education through policies and legislation has been espoused to provide equitable access to the curriculum for students with disability. Recent evidence suggests, however, that for students with blindness or low vision (BLV), the visual nature of the curriculum means that content can be inaccessible. This study explored the barriers and enablers that students with BLV encounter when engaging with the curriculum. E…
I get all my ideas from the tree”
Despite the importance of writing skills to school and life success, there is scant research into the enabling and constraining conditions that shape elementary students’ views about their writing practices. This paper examines students’ views about writing through the lens of reflexivity theory. Applying an explanatory sequential model of mixed-method design, it first describes the development of a self-report questionnaire to investigate the vi…
Postdigital Videogames Literacies
This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy . Gee’s book, a foundational text for those working in game studies, literacy studies, and education, identified 36 principles of ‘good learning’ which he argued were built into the design of good games, and which have since been used to unsettle the landscape of formal education. This article brings togeth…
Teaching poetry using Instagram
Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with each other across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry—poetry with images on Instagram—has been part of such communication and provides a good entry point into adolescents’ engagement with…
Teaching creative writing in primary schools
Teaching writing is complex and research related to approaches that support students’ understanding and outcomes in written assessment is prolific. Written aspects including text structure, purpose, and language conventions appear to be explicit elements teachers know how to teach. However, more qualitative and nuanced elements of writing such as authorial voice and creativity have received less attention. We conducted a systematic literature rev…
Enablers and constraints to teacher educator wellbeing amidst institutional accountability cultures
The work of contemporary teacher educators in university contexts is under increasing political and public scrutiny as the focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reform intensifies. Consequently, there are growing concerns for teacher educators’ wellbeing amidst escalating expectations and pressures. While research has explored the wellbeing of university academics more generally, less is understood about teacher educators more specifically. Th…
Being and belonging – identifying “invisible” children and young people's voices within educational contexts in regional, rural and remote Australian communities
This systematic literature review (SLR) examines empirical research on marginalised children and young peoples' sense of belonging in regional, rural and remote (RRR) Australian educational contexts. Following PRISMA Guidelines and utilizing JBI quality appraisal tools, five databases were searched. Inclusion criteria encompassed English-language, online full-text peer-reviewed empirical studies from RRR Australia. Fourteen studies (four qualitat…
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world
The world is becoming increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). How education systems, policies and practices respond to the challenges facing young people and their communities is of critical importance, including questions of pedagogy and curriculum in mainstream and alternative education contexts. Knowing how systems and institutions can address the challenges of a VUCA world is important in strivi…
Creativity, ecology and leadership
Leading in today’s university contexts can be extremely challenging given the systemic constraints and a steep decrease in people’s wellbeing due to uncertainty in the sector and across the globe. Leaders must, therefore, reflect often on the context in which they work but also to protect their wellbeing. In this paper, we share reflections about instances in our leadership experience related to the various patterns in nature. As both creative ar…
Reading assessment for autistic students
Reading outcomes remain a priority for all students. While many general strategies have been offered to effectively assess reading in children in general, there is limited research exploring teachers’ assessment of reading for autistic students specifically. In this study, we were interested in how teachers assess reading for autistic students in their school contexts. We interviewed nine teachers, who worked across early childhood, primary and s…
Psychology (14 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · The arts (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Feeling (4 works)