| Volume 24 Special Issue 1.1 | June 13, 2023 |
Learning-to-Learn-With a Boon Wurrung Tree
Geraldine Burke
Monash University, Australia
Melissa Bedford
Museum of Art, Monash University, Australia
Moorina Bonini
Monash University, Australia
Carolyn Briggs
Monash University, Australia
Charlotte Day
Museum of Art, Monash University, Australia
Ginette Pestana
Monash University, Australia
Citation: Burke, G., Bedford, M., Bonini, M., Briggs, C., Day, C., Pestana, G. (2023). Learning-to-learn-with- a boon wurrung tree. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 24(si1.1). http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea24si1.1
Abstract
This article explores the layered impact of partnership learning across museum, pre-service education and school contexts where the agency of trees provokes new insights for art education practices. It features collective experiences of a Tree School and Tree Story exhibition along with associated Art-Reach experiences between pre-service teachers (PSTs) and early primary school children. For us, the culturally-marked Boon Wurrung tree was a central inspiration for cross-institutional learning. It energised our understanding of Indigenous knowledges and provoked ways to re-imagine how we explore Indigenous perspectives through art education as entangled with Museum education.
