Research Portfolio

This portfolio brings together my emerging academic research, field observations, visual documentation, and applied arts education practices. It forms the foundation of my doctoral studies.

Research Focus

My current research investigates:

How do traditional art forms carry cultural knowledge, identity, and collective memory?

How does touristification reshape or commodify cultural objects and artisan practices?

How do students understand authenticity, heritage, and symbols within globalized environments?

How can visual arts education preserve cultural traditions through ethical, culturally grounded pedagogy?

How fieldwork, travel, and intercultural experience inform arts-based research?

Methodologies Underpinning
My Work

I work through interconnected methodologies. These approaches allow me to blend creative practice, research thinking, and pedagogical design.

A/R/Tography (Artist–Researcher–Teacher)

Visual Ethnography

Field Documentation (photography, journaling, sketchbook)

Material Culture Analysis

Qualitative Inquiry

Practice-Based Research in Arts Education

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PhD Journey

A reflective academic narrative documenting how my ideas, fieldwork, and teaching experiences shape my doctoral research pathway.

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Traditional Art Forms Archive

A curated collection of crafts, symbols, artisan practices, field notes, and cultural documentation from around the world.

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Academic Writing & Field Notes

Articles and essays connecting field observations with theory on material culture, heritage studies, visual culture, and arts education.

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Teaching Practice as Research

How IB Visual Arts, CAS, TAB, and multicultural projects serve as practice-based research environments that test and apply my theories.

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*This Research Portfolio is an evolving academic space. As I continue traveling, teaching, and studying, I add new fieldwork entries, analyses, and reflective essays to document the cultural and artistic traditions that inspire and inform my doctoral research.