Professor Janinka Greenwood
Position
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Studies in Education
Qualifications
PhD (Griffith), DipEd (Massey), DipTESL (Victoria), MA (Hons) (Auckland), DipTchg (Auckland Teachers' College)
Room
Dovedale Village DB04
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 345 8390
Internal Phone:
44390
janinka.greenwood@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address
School of Literacies and Arts in Education
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
NEW ZEALAND
Courses
EDEM 610 Teaching Drama in the Curriculum
EDEM686 Special Topic: A selected period or genre in theatre/drama (2009: Theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand) Movements in Aotearoa New Zealand
EDEM698 Emergent Research Methodologies
TECS393 Introduction to Teaching Drama
TECS394 Advanced Studies in Teaching Drama
Administrative Responsibilities
- Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies in Education
- Member of UC Academic Board
- Member of UC Postgraduate Committee
- Member of UC Research Committee
- Chair of College of Education Postgraduate Board of Studies
Doctoral Supervision
- How do Teachers Facilitate Drama Education in New Zealand Classrooms?
- What kind of Reading Programmes are Effective at Years 7 & 8 in New Zealand?
- How do Pasifika Immigrants in New Zealand Perform their Cultural Identity?
- The Birth of Arts Based Pedagogy in New Zealand.
- Reading the Island in Young People's literature and Media.
- How do New Technologies Impact on Music Education in Secondary Schools.
- Drama and language learning.
- Using drama for cross-curricular learning.
- Bilingualism in Vietnam.
- Alignment of Whanau aspirations with school curriculum decision making for reo Maori provision in English-medium.
Research
Please see UC Research Profile for full list of publications.
Fields of Research
- Bicultural and intercultural studies
- Bicultural theatre in New Zealand
- Creativity
- Critical literacy
- Drama and theatre in education
- School improvement and building sustainable learning communities
- The arts in education
- Theatre/drama processes as tools for change