Academic Profile : Faculty
Asst Prof Rebecca Heaton
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education - Visual & Performing Arts
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Rebecca Heaton is an Assistant Professor in Visual and Performing Arts Education. Prior to working at NIE Rebecca was a Senior Lecturer in Education at a UK university, she completed her EdD in Art Education at Cambridge University and is a qualified teacher. Her research interests include the arts and creativities in education, cognition, technology, decolonisation, interdisciplinarity, interculturality and social justice. Rebecca has won several international awards for her contributions to art education. She is an art subject advisor for Cambridge Assessment (UK) and the Ministry of Education (Singapore). Rebecca disseminates her scholarly work internationally and actively supervises and examines the work of higher degree students.
Rebecca's research interests include cognition, creativity, technology, decolonisation and social justice art education. She is interested in interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborations and the use of arts based and participatory approaches in research.
- Art education and neuroscience: An interdisciplinary inquiry into cognitive exchange in higher degree teaching and learning
Awards
International Society for Education in Art and Design (InSEA) Research Excellence Award (2023) Awarded at the InSEA World Congress in Turkey.
International Society for Education in Art and Design (InSEA) Doctoral Research Award in Art Education (2019) Awarded at the InSEA World Congress in Vancouver Canada.
British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) award for best new higher education researcher (2014) presented at the BECERA symposium Birmingham UK.
International Society for Education in Art and Design (InSEA) Doctoral Research Award in Art Education (2019) Awarded at the InSEA World Congress in Vancouver Canada.
British Early Childhood Education Research Association (BECERA) award for best new higher education researcher (2014) presented at the BECERA symposium Birmingham UK.
Fellowships & Other Recognition
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Courses Taught
MEA 901 Research and issues in art education
MEA 902 Visual Art and Creativity
MED 902 Critical Inquiry
ASA 30B Art Pedagogy
IVP0022 Inclusivity and accessibility in SPED Art Education
MEA 902 Visual Art and Creativity
MED 902 Critical Inquiry
ASA 30B Art Pedagogy
IVP0022 Inclusivity and accessibility in SPED Art Education
Supervision of PhD Students
Yuzhu Sun: The use of immersive technologic pedagogies for
students to experience museum and gallery education
in primary school art education
Mak Han Feng: Theorising the evolution of environmental art practice in Singapore through the study of Singaporean art history
students to experience museum and gallery education
in primary school art education
Mak Han Feng: Theorising the evolution of environmental art practice in Singapore through the study of Singaporean art history