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Esther teaches in Initial Teacher Training. She was a video editor and secondary school art technician before teaching the Arts in Secondary and Primary schools in Bristol and Bath. She is experienced at developing Art and Design curriculums and passionate about developing pedagogies that build on subject specific research. 

Esther has an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa that informs her practice-as-research methodology. She is enthusiastic about supporting new art teachers to develop the competencies and critical engagement required to be exceptional art and design teachers of the future. This includes promoting a pedagogy of care within an inclusive and socially-aware curriculum, supporting creativity explicitly in planning and promoting a critical understanding of Art, Craft and Design as having specific but also overlapping pedagogies. The troublesome space between artist/maker and creative art teacher is always a key factor in her lecturing, and she enjoys the challenge of supporting creative and pedagogical development within such a boundless subject area.