Research profile for Marili Jefferies

 Marili Jefferies
Marili Jefferies

Lecturer and Head of Instructional Design

Marili Jefferies

Lecturer and Head of Instructional Design

Qualifications

  • Master of Arts in Fine Arts
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Technology
  • Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts

Research Interests

  • Creativity education
  • Sustainable pedagogies
  • Arts based practice
  • Postdigital learning
  • Digital education

Biography

My published research lies at the intersection of ecological sustainability, creative practice, learning design, and digital technologies. I am especially interested in how creative processes and material engagements can foster more relational, ethical, and ecologically attuned forms of learning. Drawing from posthuman, new materialist, sociomaterial, and postdigital theories, I investigate how educational practices can be reimagined to reflect the entanglement between humans, materials, technologies, and environments. Through this lens, I aim to contribute to educational futures that are responsive, inclusive, and grounded in the understanding that learning is both a human and more-than-human endeavour. My work is practice-based, emerging from real educational contexts and are always directed toward enhancing sustainable teaching and learning practice. Currenlty, I am working on a postdigital learning project that use creative practice as a pedagogical approach to develop ecological sensing and a more relational understanding of our world. 

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