Rate My Professor Judith Dinham

Professor Judith Dinham is a Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, part of the Faculty of Humanities. She serves as the Lead for Strategic Projects in the Faculty of Humanities' Office of Learning and Teaching, with a focus on enhancing student experiences. Previously, she was Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Education and Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Education (Primary). Dinham holds postgraduate qualifications in education and arts practice and has occupied senior university teaching and leadership positions in arts education and teacher education over several decades. Her career also includes affiliations with the University of Notre Dame.

Dinham's academic interests center on arts and arts education, teacher education, online learning, students' experiences of learning, and signature pedagogies of arts education, particularly their application in 21st-century teaching practices across the curriculum and support for student wellbeing. She authored the textbook Delivering Authentic Arts Education, now in its fifth edition (2023), which outlines authentic approaches to arts teaching in primary education. Key publications include 'Enacting the signature pedagogies of arts education in the online learning environment for primary teacher education' (2024, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education), 'The Arts as the content-subject for content and language integrated learning (CLIL): how the signature pedagogies of arts education align to CLIL aims' (2024, Language, Culture and Curriculum), 'Signature pedagogies of arts education reflected in the Australian Curriculum: The Arts (Version 9)' (2023), and 'Media Arts in Early Childhood: A Framework for Developing Young Children’s Creative Participation in the Digital World' (2021). Dinham contributes editorially as Senior Editor for Cogent Education (Taylor & Francis) and Guest Editor for Education Sciences (MDPI). Her teaching excellence is honored with Fellowship of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (FHERDSA), Associate Fellowship of HERDSA (2015), an Edith Cowan University Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, two Curtin University Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Awards, the 2015 Curtin University Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award (Common First Year Team), and the 2014 Faculty of Humanities Learning and Teaching Excellence Award. She was a nationally awarded educator by AAUT in 2000 and a 2016 Curtin University finalist for Australian Awards for University Teaching.