Heather McLeod (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor (arts education) in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Review of Art Education. She pursues a critical rese
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Heather McLeod (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor (arts education) in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Review of Art Education. She pursues a critical research agenda and is interested in arts-based research methods. Her funded research initiatives include a parents and poetry project, an examination of the process of becoming a researcher, an initiative to understand student experiential learning in an art museum and an Open Studio project with immigrant and refugee youth. Previously she taught in the public school system in British Columbia and Nunavut. As well she worked in communications and policy development for a provincial teachers’ organization and for government.
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