Dr Chris Peers - Researcher Profile

Biography

Chris works in the Faculty of Education at Monash University as a Lecturer. His teaching responsibilities include both the coursework units dedicated to secondary visual arts and design pre-service teacher education, and postgraduate coursework on philosophy and policy studies in early childhood education.

Chris previously taught in the primary education program, where he was also a Course Advisor.

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Research & Supervision Interests

Chris' current research explores educational policy concepts. 

His expertise includes:

Psychoanalytic theory; epistemology; phenomenology and ontology; gender and sexuality; aesthetics; history of education; philosophy of education.

Chris' work on policy studies is currently focusing on the impediments to and implications of female labour force participation in early childhood education; this involves exploring economic development and the variable factors effecting government and private investment in the early childhood sector in OECD countries and developing economic settings.

 

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of NSW

Year awarded: 2003

BACHELOR OF ART EDUCATION ( HONOURS)

Institution: University of NSW

Year awarded: 1999

BACHELOR OF ARTS ( VISUAL ARTS)

Institution: Sydney College of Advanced Education

Year awarded: 1985

Publications

Book Chapters

Peers, C., 2010, Psychoanalysing the discourse of art education, in The Doctoral Journey in Art Education: Reflections on Doctoral Studies by Australian and New Zealand Art Educators, eds David Forrest and Elizabeth Grierson, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Vic Australia, pp. 217-227.

Peers, C., 2003, Ellen Waugh and the training of art teachers in New South Wales, in Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time. Remembering, Revisioning, Reconsidering, eds Kit Grauer, Rita L. Irwin, Enid Zimmerman, CSEA and National Art Education Association, Canada, pp. 84-91.

Journal Articles

Fleer, M., Peers, C., 2012, Beyond cognitivisation: creating collectively constructed imaginary situations for supporting learning and development, The Australian Educational Researcher [P], vol 39, issue 4, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 413-430.

Peers, C., 2011, Freud, Plato and Irigaray: A morpho-logic of teaching and learning, Educational Philosophy and Theory [E], vol E, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 1-15.

Peers, C., 2011, Making art invisible: visual education and the cultural stagnation of neo-liberal rationality, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education [P], vol 32, issue 3, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 415-429.

Peers, C., 2011, The Australian Early Development Index: reshaping family-child relationships in early childhood education, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood [P], vol 12, issue 2, Symposium Journals, United Kingdom, pp. 134-147.

Agbenyega, J., Peers, C., 2010, Early childhood inclusion: A silver lining in the dark clouds for African immigrant children?, International Journal of Whole Schooling [P], vol 6, issue 2, Whole Schooling Consortium, United States, pp. 46-58.

Peers, C., 2009, A post-developmentalism? Using Vygotsky to see the redundancy of psychology for educational thought, Australian Research in Early Childhood Education [P], vol 16, issue 1, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, pp. 9-17.

Peers, C., 2008, A post-development framework for the visual arts in early childhood? How art and cognition intersect as concepts in early childhood discourse, Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, vol 15, issue 2, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. 87-98.

Peers, C., 2008, Investigating myths and perceptions of visual arts education, Australian Art Education, vol 31, issue 1, Australian Art Education, Vic Australia, pp. 99-123.

Peers, C., 2008, Phallocratic antecedents of teaching and learning, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, vol 16, issue 3, Taylor and Francis, UK, pp. 239-252.

Peers, C., 2006, What does a pedagogue look like? Masculinity and the repression of sexual difference in ancient education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol 27, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 189-208.

Peers, C., 2005, The 'first' educator? Rethinking the 'teacher' through Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference, The Australian Educational Researcher, vol 32, issue 1, Australian Association for Research in Education, Australia, pp. 83-100.

Peers, C., 2004, 'Destroying' the pedagogical imaginary: some implications of sexual difference for educational philosophy, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol 36, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 399-415.

Peers, C., 2003, Avatars of art pedagogy in New South Wales, History of Education Review, vol 32, issue 1, Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, Australia, pp. 66-83.

Peers, C., 2003, Mapping histories of art education in New South Wales, Historical Studies in Education, vol 15, issue 2, Athabasca University Press and Canadian History of Education Association, Canada, pp. 299-326.

Peers, C., 2002, A homo-sexual ideology in the history of New South Wales art education, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, vol 10, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 5-20.

Peers, C., 2002, Mapping art as a matriculation subject in New South Wales, History of Education Review, vol 31, issue 1, Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, Australia, pp. 51-68.

Peers, C., 2002, Tracing an approach to art teaching: A historical study of an art education documentary film, Studies in Art Education, vol 43, issue 3, National Art Education Association, USA, pp. 264-277.

Conference Proceedings

Peers, C., 2011, Prediscursive experience and gender: a link between Vygotsky and Irigaray?, Abstracts of the 2011 ISCAR Congress Rome, 5 - 10 September, 2011, International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), Rome, Italy, pp. 394-395.

Fleer, M., Peers, C., 2010, A dialectical analysis of imagination and creativity, Abstracts of the AARE 2010 International Education Research Conference, 29 November - 2 December, 2010, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Australia, p. 1.

Peers, C., 2010, Making art invisible. Visual education and the cultural stagnation of neo-liberal rationality, Abstracts of the 2010 International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) South East Asia-Pacific Regional Congress, 14 - 16 October, 2010, International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) / Art Education Australia (AEA) / AEV, Australia, p. 1.

Peers, C., Agbenyega, J., 2010, Perceptions of access to early childhood education and care: stories from African refugee parents in Melbourne, Abstracts and Program of the 17th Conference of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education (ARECE), 19 - 21 January, 2010, Monash University, Australia, p. 30.

Other

Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J.S., Blaise, M., Peers, C., 2008, Assessment practices within the early years: Assumptions, beliefs and practices, SADECS, Western Australia.

Teaching Commitment

2013: EDF4837 and EDF4838 [Visual Arts and Design for secondary pre-service teachers in the Master of Secondary Teaching]

2013: EDF5906 Comparative Perspectives in Early Childhood Education [Master of Teaching/ Early Childhood ]

Community Service

Chris is the Director of IRECE conference (International Research in Early Childhood Education).

The first IRECE conference was held in the Republic of Ghana in January 2012, in collaboration with University of Cape Coast.

Chris is currently planning the second IRECE conference, scheduled for January 2014 in Santiago Chile.

Consulting

Team member 2010-2011: Contemporary Child Development Theory for Early Childhood Educators (DEECD/Bastow Institute Victorian State Government)

Leader 2011: Contemporary Child Development Theory for Policy Makers and Program Officers (DEECD/Bastow Institute Victorian State Government)

Leader/Team member 2011: Qualitative and Quantitative Baseline Evaluations of Commonwealth implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework (DEEWR, Australian Commonwealth Government).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

An enquiry into the relevance of design and technology education in a post-industrial society.

Supervisors:

Peers, C (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Beyond statistics: How are early childhood aid programs meeting the needs of female students?.

Supervisors:

Fleer, M (Main), Peers, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Importance of free play- can explore children's imagination and represent their cultural background.

Supervisors:

Fleer, M (Main), Peers, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

New Teachers: fantasy and the familiar.

Supervisors:

Peers, C (Main), Duhn, I (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Parent-child play in Chinese immigrant and Australian families.

Supervisors:

Fleer, M (Main), Peers, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

TBC.

Supervisors:

Peers, C (Main).