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Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is a Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham's School of Education and an honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Education. Kathleen specialises in professional learning, self-reflexive scholarship, and arts-based educational research. Her recent book, Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human Sciences: Voices from the South and North (van Rooyen & Pithouse-Morgan, 2024), is a resource for educators, scholars, students, and practitioners interested in using poetry to enhance educational research. It is especially relevant for those committed to advancing educational research paradigms that value contributions from the Global South and foster meaningful transnational collaborations. An advocate for leveraging the arts to promote educational development and social justice, Kathleen co-convenes the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group (SIG). Currently, she leads a funded project on Poetic Research by Teachers in Higher Education, further exploring the synergy between the arts and academia.
Kathleen is the co-historian of the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and serves as an executive editor of the international and multidisciplinary journal, Teaching and Teacher Education.
Previously in South Africa, Kathleen was the 2019 recipient of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa's National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, recognised for advancing research-led teaching excellence. In 2020, Kathleen received the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) Research Honours Award for outstanding contributions to educational research in South Africa over a sustained period.
Expertise Summary
Through the self-reflexive methodologies of self-study, memory-work, autoethnography, poetic inquiry, and narrative inquiry, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan's work documents and theorises how teachers and other professionals gain vital insights into their identities and practices, enabling them to lead educational and social change. She collaborates creatively across disciplines and continents to cultivate and study methodological inventiveness in professional learning. Noteworthy scholarly contributions include Polyvocal Professional Learning through Self-Study Research with Professor Anastasia P. Samaras of George Mason University, USA, and poetic professional learning. Recent book publications include Memory Mosaics: Researching Teacher Professional Learning Through Artful Memory-Work (2019) and Teaching, Learning, and Enacting of Self-Study Methodology (2018).
van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2024). Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North. HSRC Press.
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Mitchell, C. (Eds.). (2019). Memory mosaics: Researching teacher professional learning through artful memory-work. Springer.
Ritter, J. K., Lunenberg, M., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Samaras, A. P., & Vanassche, E. (Eds.). (2018). Teaching, learning, and enacting of self-study methodology: Unraveling a complex interplay. Springer Nature.
Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Naicker, I. (Eds.). (2017). Object medleys: Interpretive possibilities for educational research. Sense Publishers.
Pillay, D., Naicker, I., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2016). Academic autoethnographies: Inside teaching in higher education. Sense Publishers.
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (Eds.). (2015). Polyvocal professional learning through self-study research. Sense Publishers.
Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Allnutt, S., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). (2013). Productive remembering and social agency. Sense Publishers.
Mitchell, C., Strong-Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., & Allnutt, S. (Eds.). (2011). Memory and pedagogy. Routledge.
Mitchell, C., & Pithouse, K. (Eds.). (2009). Teaching and HIV & AIDS. Macmillan.
Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C., & Moletsane, R. (Eds.). (2009). Making connections: Self-study & social action. Peter Lang.