School of Education

Education is a site for transformative learning, though not immune to controversy, or crises, it is a site of possibility, limitations, and competing perspectives. School of Education students encounter the potential that education offers future generations through their commitment to a professional pathway. It is timely to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the School of Education graduating class.

Graduating students will have completed a programme of professional learning having encountered theory, and applied a range of methodologies across multiple sites within formal and non-formal education. Graduating students will embark on a professional pathway in teacher education knowing the challenges and complexity of learning within and outside of the classroom. The class of 2026 are graduates of art (design) and education. Graduating students straddle the domains of art and design, and weave an identity that evolves over time informed by continuous change. Global issues of; sustainability, inclusion, generative AI, social justice, inequity, war and systemic limitations, challenge educators and artists to make a difference.

Through situated, peer and collaborative creative learning experiences, graduating students encounter real world problems and find creative solutions. Critical and reflexive approaches to art-making have been embedded in their research practice. School of Education students are encouraged to recognise their agency, and potential in the creative and educational sphere.

The staff in the School of Education wish to celebrate the graduating students’ achievements and recognise their efforts and commitment to an intensive learning experience.

Professor Nuala Hunt
Head of School of Education