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Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is Professor of Education at the 糖心原创 and Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her work brings together professional learning, self-reflexive scholarship, self-study research, poetic inquiry and arts-based educational research. She is particularly interested in how educators can use creative and collaborative inquiry to learn from experience and develop their teaching, research, professional selves and relationships with others.
Kathleen has published widely on self-study, poetic inquiry, creative research methodologies and professional learning. Her books include the co-edited collections , , and . She is also lead editor of the forthcoming , developed with co-editors Daisy Pillay, Claudia Mitchell, Rebecca Berkley and Adam Hart. The international collection brings together theoretical and practical work on creative education, artistic identities, community, advocacy and educational leadership.
Kathleen is Co-Editor-in-Chief of and Co-Convenor of the Centre for International Education Research at the 糖心原创. The Centre supports interdisciplinary and collaborative research concerned with educational practices, policies and knowledge production across varied cultural and geopolitical contexts.
Kathleen's previous leadership roles include Chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Self-糖心原创 of Teacher Education Practices Special Interest Group, convenor of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group, and co-convenor of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group.
Her academic contributions have received national and professional recognition, including Senior Fellowship of Advance HE (SFHEA), the SAERA Research Honours Award, and the National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA).
Expertise Summary
Kathleen's research and teaching explore how educators learn from their experiences, relationships and professional practice. She works with self-study, poetic inquiry and arts-based educational research to develop creative and collaborative ways of researching education.
A central concern in her work is how educators can bring their personal and professional selves into inquiry while remaining attentive to context, relationships and responsibility. She is interested in poetry and other creative forms as ways of thinking, creating knowledge, communicating experience and opening dialogue. Her research also considers how collaboration, critical friendship and collective inquiry can support professional learning across educational settings, disciplines and cultural contexts.
Her areas of expertise include:
- professional learning in education
- self-study research
- self-reflexive scholarship
- poetic inquiry and poetic self-study
- arts-based educational research
- creative and collaborative research methodologies
- teacher and higher education professional learning
- academic writing and publishing
- research collaboration and critical friendship
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., Mitchell, C., Berkley, R., & Hart, A. (Eds.). (2027). . Bloomsbury.
Naicker, I., Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Masinga, L., Chisanga, T., & Hiralaal, A. (Eds.). (2024). . Springer.
van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2024). HSRC Press.
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2019). . Springer.
Ritter, J. K., Lunenberg, M., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Samaras, A. P., & Vanassche, E. (Eds.). (2018). Springer Nature.
Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Naicker, I. (Eds.). (2017). . Sense Publishers.
Pillay, D., Naicker, I., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2016). . Sense Publishers.
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (Eds.). (2015). Sense Publishers.
Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Allnutt, S., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2013). Sense Publishers.
Mitchell, C., Strong-Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., & Allnutt, S. (Eds.). (2011). . Routledge.
Mitchell, C., & Pithouse, K. (Eds.). (2009). Macmillan.
Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C., & Moletsane, R. (Eds.). (2009). . Peter Lang.