Murray School of Education
Jennifer Munday
DipMus Melba Memorial Music Cons., ATCL TrinityCollLond, GDipArtsEd Phillip I.T., GDipMEdStud Vic Coll, MA(VPA)C.Sturt, AWDA
Faculty of Education Online Support Co-ordinator
Position: Lecturer
Phone: (02) 605 19410
Fax: (02) 605 19424
Campus: Thurgoona
Room: 123
Website:http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~jmunday/
Email: jmunday@csu.edu.au
Research
Research Interests
- Creative and expressive arts in education (visual art, dance, drama, music).
- Museums, and Issues for Learning.
- Performance and education.
- Combined arts performance.
- Learning about learning.
Current Research Projects
- Adapting the novel for live performance - PhD project
- Water Suite, musical composition written and performed in collaboration with Ursula Genaehr. Part of the Chinese Whispers Festival and presented at Albury Regional Art Gallery, 2005.
- On the edge, and Menopause Piece, submitted to Short and Sweet, 10 minute play festival, Victorian Arts Centre, 2005.
- Tom's Women, by Geoffrey Sykes, performed at Corowa and Wodonga. 2004.
- The Edge, one-act play, won a place in the 'Word UP' competition and was produced in the Extreme Festival in Broken Hill, April 15-17, 2004.
- Visual Artist for Murray Time: the novel - collaborative writing and art publication, edited by Jane Downing and Dirk Spennemann, Letao Press, 2003.
- Spoken voice and music presentation of Evesong by Mary Gilmore at the Artspace, Wodonga, 2003.
- Director and coordinator for Literary Pub Crawl event for the Groundswell, Regional Arts Australia Conference in Albury, 2002.
Research and Creative Works
- It can't speak for itself: performance as interpretation - paper and performance presented at the 7th National Museums Australia Conference, Adelaide, March, 2002.
- Tom's Women, by Geoffrey Sykes, reworked as a multimedia project with projectedimages and video. Presented at the International Tom Roberts Festivalin Inverell in May 2001, and regional New South Wales and Victorian galleriesthroughout 2001-2004. Presentation at the RAA Groundswell Conference,Albury, October 2002.
- Sand events: Annually presented 1998-2002 - Dance and arts in an outdoor environment created in sand and sculpture - supported by Albury City Council.
Teaching
- Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
EMT101 Using Educational Technology - B.Ed. (Early Childhood) - Distance Education
EMA403 Creative and Expressive Arts in Early Childhood
EML432 Drama in the Early Years - Master of Teaching
EMA515 Creative Arts
Membership
- Member of Australian Women Directors Association (AWDA).
- Secretary,Murray Arts, Albury-Wodonga
- Booranga Writers, Albury
- Australian National Playwrights' Centre
Publications
Taking teacher education on a field trip: an 'authentic' task that provides 'authentic' learning,refereed paper to be presented at the ATEA National Conference, Gold Coast, July, 2005.
Learning about learning through teaching,refereed journal article to be published in the International Journal of Learning, 2005, co-authored with Richard Taffe.
Learning to learn: an investigation into the way student teachers transfer their own learning strategies to help children learn, refereed paper, co-authored with Richard Taffe, presented at ATEA National Conference, Bathurst, in July 2005.
Triple value: an authentic project that engages University, Museum and Schools, paper presented at AUCEA National Conference, Bathurst, July, 2004.
An investigation into the way student teachers transfer their own learning strategies to help children learn, refereed paper published in the International Journal of Learning, 2004 - co-authored with Richard Taffe.
Munday, J. (2003) Museums and Learning issues: learning through different windows. International Journal of Learning, Vol. 10.
Museums as effective learning environments for young children, paper presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Sydney, January, 2003.
Learning through different windows, refereed paper presented at the 9th International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Beijing, China, July, 2002.
Creating musical arrangement based on composer Carl Orff, for use with young children, and, Finding dramatic potential in children's stories and songs: creating drama. KU Children's Services Annual Seminar, Sydney, 2002.