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Tarquam James McKenna

B.Ed. TasCAE, PGradDipDramaEd NewcastleUK, MEdSt Tas, MA HolyNamesC, PGradDipArts, MA ECowan, PhD WAust, MTESOL AThR.

Emeritus Professor Tarquam McKenna was most recently the Professor and Chair of Indigenous Knowledge (Research) at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has been active as an arts psychotherapist for thirty-five years and is past president and honorary life member of ANZACATA (formerly ANZATA). He is keenly interested in mental health and arts practices and arts based research methods. He has especially considered their applicability to Indigenous social and emotional health.

Tarquam has taught, researched and supervised widely in the area of the arts, gender and education. His practice continues to examine social justice and acknowledges the legacies of Paulo Freire in particular. He is active in addressing how colonisation has impacted on multiple lives around the world.

As past Chair and Professor at Deakin University, where he was Head of Teacher Education Programmes in the Institute of Koorie Education(IKE) now NIKERII he sat on Human Ethics Committees. Prior to that as a Director of Research in The College of Arts and Education at Victoria University he has performed similar roles. Mentoring to staff new to university was central to his work as a Dean of College at VU.

Now an Emeritus Professor in the College of Arts and Education, a past Academic Manager of International Strategies and the MTESOL Advisor in the College of Arts and Education his work focuses on Higher Degree completions in Vietnam where he has forged partnerships in research. This research and teacher has focused on teaching using English as an additional language.