Alison Kearney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Kearney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearney |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9974-0268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
No Mere Things: Found Objects as Medium in South African Art
Artists have incorporated objects from everyday life into their artworks for more than a century. Since the historical avant-garde artists’ experiments with assemblage, such items are referred to as found objects. Modernist discourses characterised the use of found objects as a means to critique long-held conventions of the institutions and practices of art. However, found objects are now accepted as part of global artists’ tool kits, unlike when…
Untold Stories: Material Narratives of Fragility, Grief, and Healing
Untold Stories: (Re-)Narrativising the Past in the Present through Visual Artmaking
Improving educational inclusion for refugee-background learners through appreciation of diversity
A refugee crisis is taking place as an unprecedented number of people, half of whom are under the age of 18, become displaced following conflict and persecution in their home countries. In the Aotearoa New Zealand context refugees will continue to be welcomed, so it is important for schools and the wider education system to support inclusion of refugee-background learners. Enabling them the opportunity to participate meaningfully with education, …
Beyond the Everyday: Subtle Forms of Resistance in the Work of Usha Seejarim
Contemporary South African artist Usha Seejarim interrogates everyday social practices though using quotidian objects and documentary style videography to create her artworks. Through an analysis of the manner in which Seejarim engages with the everyday, this article explores the ways in which her artworks challenge gendered and racialised identity constructions in contemporary South Africa. I begin by showing how Seejarim draws attention to aspe…
Infinite Mirror: Critical Reflections on Wayne Barker’s Strategies of Appropriation
Contemporary South African artist Wayne Barker is well known for mixing referents taken from high art and popular culture in his art practice that spaces more than 30 years. Barker’s infamous appropriation of J. H. Pierneef’s works has been interpreted as iconoclastic acts that critique the ideals Pierneef represents. Barker’s seemingly irreverent pilfering is a strategy that he has brought into his recent Beadworks Series. Through focusing on se…
In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, by Ashraf Jamal
(2020). In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, by Ashraf Jamal. de arte: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 109-112
Beginner secondary teacher preparedness for inclusion
This study investigated the role of ITE in preparing beginner, secondary school teachers for including diverse groups of learners by capturing their experiences of ITE and their early career. An online questionnaire was completed by early career secondary school teachers. Follow-up interviews with four teachers explored salient findings from the questionnaire. The study found that that while ITE recognises the diversity of the classroom, it falls…
Spaces of inclusion and belonging: The learning imaginaries of doctoral students in a multi-campus and distance university
Doctoral studies are often described as solitary and challenging endeavors, dependent on candidates’ highly developed skills, self-driven nature, and commitment to engage in years of research activity. A range of university initiatives are specially crafted to support higher research degree students, for example, through digital and physical resources, workshops, group gatherings, and others. Our project examines what constitutes significant plac…
Art History Is Dead; Long Live Art History
The # RhodesMustFall campaign that began at the University of Cape Town in early 2015, called for the decolonisation of South African university curricula, among other transformations. As a result, many South African academics are questioning the epistemologies that underpin their disciplines. What does the decolonisation of university curricula imply for disciplines in the humanities, art history among them, which were born at the time of coloni…
Māwhai: Webbing a professional identity through networked interprofessional communities of practice
The framing of objects in Penny Siopis' ‘Sympathetic Magic’
The use of found objects is part of contemporary art-making practices, and can no longer be understood in terms of the anti- art gestures of the first decades of the 20th century. An approach to understanding this practice, which goes beyond an interpretation of the artworks as ‘anti-art’, is needed. One such approach is to focus on the changed ontology of the objects when they are embedded in the field of art. With critical reference to the use …
Discourses of inclusion in initial teacher education: Unravelling a New Zealand ‘number eight wire’ knot
Inclusive education policy in New Zealand: Reality or ruse
New Zealand, like many countries, is beginning the journey towards a more inclusive education system. This paper examines inclusive education in New Zealand, and in particular policy related to inclusive education. New Zealand has the chance to make inclusion a reality, but as Skrtic (1991 Skrtic, T. M. 1991. Behind Special Education. A Critical Analysis of Professional Culture and School Organization, Denver, CO: Love. [Google Scholar]) points o…
Inclusive education policy in New Zealand: Reality or ruse
New Zealand, like many countries, is beginning the journey towards a more inclusive education system. This paper examines inclusive education in New Zealand, and in particular policy related to inclusive education. New Zealand has the chance to make inclusion a reality, but as Skrtic (1991 Skrtic, T. M. 1991. Behind Special Education. A Critical Analysis of Professional Culture and School Organization, Denver, CO: Love. [Google Scholar]) points o…
Māwhai: Webbing a professional identity through networked interprofessional communities of practice
Discourses of inclusion in initial teacher education: Unravelling a New Zealand ‘number eight wire’ knot
Improving educational inclusion for refugee-background learners through appreciation of diversity
A refugee crisis is taking place as an unprecedented number of people, half of whom are under the age of 18, become displaced following conflict and persecution in their home countries. In the Aotearoa New Zealand context refugees will continue to be welcomed, so it is important for schools and the wider education system to support inclusion of refugee-background learners. Enabling them the opportunity to participate meaningfully with education, …
Beginner secondary teacher preparedness for inclusion
This study investigated the role of ITE in preparing beginner, secondary school teachers for including diverse groups of learners by capturing their experiences of ITE and their early career. An online questionnaire was completed by early career secondary school teachers. Follow-up interviews with four teachers explored salient findings from the questionnaire. The study found that that while ITE recognises the diversity of the classroom, it falls…
Art History Is Dead; Long Live Art History
The # RhodesMustFall campaign that began at the University of Cape Town in early 2015, called for the decolonisation of South African university curricula, among other transformations. As a result, many South African academics are questioning the epistemologies that underpin their disciplines. What does the decolonisation of university curricula imply for disciplines in the humanities, art history among them, which were born at the time of coloni…
Inclusive education policy in New Zealand: Reality or ruse
New Zealand, like many countries, is beginning the journey towards a more inclusive education system. This paper examines inclusive education in New Zealand, and in particular policy related to inclusive education. New Zealand has the chance to make inclusion a reality, but as Skrtic (1991 Skrtic, T. M. 1991. Behind Special Education. A Critical Analysis of Professional Culture and School Organization, Denver, CO: Love. [Google Scholar]) points o…
Discourses of inclusion in initial teacher education: Unravelling a New Zealand ‘number eight wire’ knot
The framing of objects in Penny Siopis' ‘Sympathetic Magic’
The use of found objects is part of contemporary art-making practices, and can no longer be understood in terms of the anti- art gestures of the first decades of the 20th century. An approach to understanding this practice, which goes beyond an interpretation of the artworks as ‘anti-art’, is needed. One such approach is to focus on the changed ontology of the objects when they are embedded in the field of art. With critical reference to the use …
Māwhai: Webbing a professional identity through networked interprofessional communities of practice
Art History Is Dead; Long Live Art History
The # RhodesMustFall campaign that began at the University of Cape Town in early 2015, called for the decolonisation of South African university curricula, among other transformations. As a result, many South African academics are questioning the epistemologies that underpin their disciplines. What does the decolonisation of university curricula imply for disciplines in the humanities, art history among them, which were born at the time of coloni…
Spaces of inclusion and belonging: The learning imaginaries of doctoral students in a multi-campus and distance university
Doctoral studies are often described as solitary and challenging endeavors, dependent on candidates’ highly developed skills, self-driven nature, and commitment to engage in years of research activity. A range of university initiatives are specially crafted to support higher research degree students, for example, through digital and physical resources, workshops, group gatherings, and others. Our project examines what constitutes significant plac…
Beginner secondary teacher preparedness for inclusion
This study investigated the role of ITE in preparing beginner, secondary school teachers for including diverse groups of learners by capturing their experiences of ITE and their early career. An online questionnaire was completed by early career secondary school teachers. Follow-up interviews with four teachers explored salient findings from the questionnaire. The study found that that while ITE recognises the diversity of the classroom, it falls…
In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, by Ashraf Jamal
(2020). In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, by Ashraf Jamal. de arte: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 109-112
Improving educational inclusion for refugee-background learners through appreciation of diversity
A refugee crisis is taking place as an unprecedented number of people, half of whom are under the age of 18, become displaced following conflict and persecution in their home countries. In the Aotearoa New Zealand context refugees will continue to be welcomed, so it is important for schools and the wider education system to support inclusion of refugee-background learners. Enabling them the opportunity to participate meaningfully with education, …
Beyond the Everyday: Subtle Forms of Resistance in the Work of Usha Seejarim
Contemporary South African artist Usha Seejarim interrogates everyday social practices though using quotidian objects and documentary style videography to create her artworks. Through an analysis of the manner in which Seejarim engages with the everyday, this article explores the ways in which her artworks challenge gendered and racialised identity constructions in contemporary South Africa. I begin by showing how Seejarim draws attention to aspe…
Infinite Mirror: Critical Reflections on Wayne Barker’s Strategies of Appropriation
Contemporary South African artist Wayne Barker is well known for mixing referents taken from high art and popular culture in his art practice that spaces more than 30 years. Barker’s infamous appropriation of J. H. Pierneef’s works has been interpreted as iconoclastic acts that critique the ideals Pierneef represents. Barker’s seemingly irreverent pilfering is a strategy that he has brought into his recent Beadworks Series. Through focusing on se…
Untold Stories: Material Narratives of Fragility, Grief, and Healing
Untold Stories: (Re-)Narrativising the Past in the Present through Visual Artmaking
No Mere Things: Found Objects as Medium in South African Art
Artists have incorporated objects from everyday life into their artworks for more than a century. Since the historical avant-garde artists’ experiments with assemblage, such items are referred to as found objects. Modernist discourses characterised the use of found objects as a means to critique long-held conventions of the institutions and practices of art. However, found objects are now accepted as part of global artists’ tool kits, unlike when…
Sociology (10 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (4 works) · Inclusion (mineral (4 works) · Social science (4 works)