Teaching Team
Meet the Arts Education teaching team. We look forward to learning with you, and wish you all the very best with your studies this study period.
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Jeff Meiners MEd, Grad Dip (Arts Education), Doctoral candidate
Course Coordinator jeff.meiners@unisa.edu.au Jeff Meiners is a lecturer and researcher at the University of South Australia. He has taught extensively in schools; as a primary class teacher, arts curriculum leader, leader of a dance education team in London, and with Ausdance NSW to support dance development in schools. Jeff works with the National Advocates for Arts Education and education departments including overseas projects with a range of arts and education organisations. Jeff was the Australia Council Dance Board’s Community Representative (2002-7), 2009 Australian Dance Award winner for Outstanding Services to Dance Education, and dance writer for the new Australian curriculum’s Arts Shape paper. Jeff’s doctoral research titled ‘So we can dance’ focuses on dance in the primary school curriculum. |
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Susan Harding Tutor
Office: G3-08 Mawson Lakes Campus
Tel: (08) 8302 5418
Sue Harding undertook her studies through Adelaide University, holding a Masters in Educational Studies, a Bachelor of Music from Elder Conservatorium of Music and a Grad Dip Ed. As well as teaching piano as a private provider for over 30 years, Sue has had a number of positions as music specialist in the classroom, most recently in a large K-12 school. Her roles have included mentoring primary classroom teachers about music, providing advice for designing school music programs in and across year levels, and teaching classroom music to secondary students. Sue has taken part in consultations about the Australian Curriculum through her State and National Executive positions in the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) and she also worked with the DECD Arts Implementation Advisory Group. Sue continues to support teachers in South Australia through presentations at workshops and seminars and online forums. |
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Dr Belinda MacGill Tutor Belinda.macgill@unisa.edu.auOffice G3-29 Mawson Lakes Campus
Tel (08) 8302 0914
Belinda MacGill has worked as a lecturer and researcher in South Australia for several decades. She taught in schools in the Arts in both primary and secondary in Queensland and South Australia. She is a member of Art Education Australia and Visual Arts educators of South Australia that focus on the development of visual arts education. Belinda won several teaching awards including the Student Choice Excellent Teacher Award (UniSA) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Teaching (National award) and Excellence in Teaching Award (Flinders University). Her primary research interests draw on the fields of Indigenous education, postcolonial theory, visual methodologies and critical race theory. Her theoretical work is informed by Indigenous knowledges (Nakata, 2004; Smith 1999), Giroux’s border pedagogy (1995) and place based pedagogy (Carter, 2009; Somerville, 2011). She has published in a broad range of articles concerned with postcolonial receptivity, teaching in the contact zone and feminist art theory. |
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Karen Inwood Tutor
Karen Inwood trained at Flinders University Drama Centre and the Adelaide University Elder Conservatorium of Music, currently completing a Masters degree at Flinders University. She began her career as a stage actress and puppeteer and in between acting roles, completed a Dip Ed in Drama and Music. Karen has over 30 years’ experience in working with young people; she worked with Kid@round Music in childcare centres, founded Onshore Drama, the South Western Youth Theatre Company and also founded Tutti Kids, an after school workshop program for children with disabilities. Karen tutored for seven years at Urban Myth Theatre of Youth and taught at Richmond Primary School, also within the special needs unit, Concordia College, Suneden Special School, Wilderness Girls School and Prince Alfred College. She has joined UniSA after working most recently as a senior Drama teacher and Head of House at St John's Grammar School in Belair. |
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