Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


    Jacqui Dreessens

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Position Associate Lecturer
Email jacqui.dreessens@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 522 72231
Campus Geelong
Role and profile Lecturer in the following units:
ECA431 Dance Education in the School and Community
ECA432 Dance Curriculum Studies
ECA433 Multicultural Dance
ECA434 Research in Dance Advocacy and Education
EXE201 Creating Effective Learning Environments
EXE202 Curriculum Assessment and Reporting
ESH102 Teaching the Art and Science of Dance and Gymnastics
ECA409 Teaching the Arts in Primary School - Interdisciplinary
ECA410 Primary Arts Education Focus Study - Dance
EEA227 Exploring Cultural Diversity through the Performing Arts
EEA228 Engaging Community through the Performing Arts
ECE400 Cultural perspectives through Dance
Research interests Cross-cultural choreographic dance practice
Community Dance practice and festivals
Curriculum studies in Dance
African Dance and percussion
Integrating the performing Arts across the curriculum
Reflective practice
Artist in residence


African dance
Artist in residency programs
School music productions
Professional development for non dance teachers using cross arts approach and dance as the learning medium
Current research projects "Looking for Signs" Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival, CERES environment park, Brunswick
"Hidden Depths" High Tide Festival, Torquay, Surf Coast
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Jacqui is the Director of Wild Moves, a collective of community and professional artists willing to embrace, celebrate and contribute to cultural diversity as well as environmental awareness through the interplay and integration across the arts.
Awards National Bank Community Awards: National winner for Culture, Heritage and Environment for artistic direction of CERES environment park 1998 "Stamping Ground"
Qualifications BEd (Sec) Vic.Coll.
Memberships Ausdance Victoria
Dramavic
VOSA
CERES
Conferences Nov 2010 Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines, Auckland, New Zealand
Feb 2009 Ausdance. VET Dance in Schools
May 2009 VOSA Living Music and Dance Conference
Publications

Jacqui has also written the following articles :
Dreessens, J.M., Dance in Education, Kinesis, Australian Dance Council, August 1995.
Dreessens, J.M., National Dance Week at Melbourne Central, May 1995.
Dreessens, J.M., Return of the Scared Kingfisher, Kinesis, Australian Dance Council October, 1995.
Dreessens, J.M., Community Dance, Kinesis, Australian Dance Council, August 1996.

Action research for the The National Affiliate of Arts Educators, C.D.ROM Project, August - November 1995.
Writer for X-Arts PD workshop: Guidelines for use by Network Leaders, January 1996.

Additional URLs

Wild Moves

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22nd April 2013