Current and Previous Positions
• Chair of Arts Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, the University of Melbourne
• Director, Melbourne UNESCO Observatory of Arts Education
• Member, UNESCO UNITWIN, international research consortium of arts education research
• Previous Head of School of Early Childhood and Special Needs Education, National Institute of Education, Singapore
• Previous Director of the Centre for Applied Studies in Early Childhood, Queensland University of Technology
Leadership Roles
• Director of the Australian Music Examination Board
• Past Member of the Music Council of Australia
• Past Board Member of Kids Own Publishing
• Past President of the Queensland Orff Schulwerk Association
• Past President of the Queensland State and Municipal Choir
Advisory Roles to Architectural Builds
• studioFive, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, the University of Melbourne
• Boon Lay Kindergarten, Singapore Ministry of Education
• Integrated Arts Studios, Early Childhood Education, Queensland University of Technology
Musical Performance Groups
• daCamera Singers, gold record winner for the recording of Conquistador with Procol Harum and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
• Edmonton Symphonic Choir
• Queensland State and Municipal Choir, with the Queensland Symphony
• Member of five different bands over the years
Selected Publications (books)
• Deans, J., & Wright, S. (2018). Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children’s Learning.
London: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education.
• Wright, S. (Ed.). (2012). Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts (2nd Ed). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education.
• Wright, S. (2010). Understanding Creativity in Early Childhood: Meaning-Making and Children’s Drawings. UK: SAGE.
• Wright, S. Cohen, L., & Poon, K. (Eds.). (2008). Special Education: Perspectives and Practices. Singapore: Pearson.
• Wright, S. (Ed.). (2003). Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts. Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education.
• Wright, S. (2003). The Arts, Young Children and Learning. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Wright, S. (Ed.) (1991). The Arts in Early Childhood. Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education.
• + 100 book chapters, journal articles
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Art educators' professional learning: reflecting together to consider ontologies of qualit..
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Research Grant
The role of movement, dynamics and expression in children's drawings of dancing
Book Chapter
studioFive—A Site for Teaching, Research and Engagement in Australian Arts Education
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Performative Literacy: Children’s Graphic-Narrative-Embodied Play
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Selected Research Projects
• Teachers’ application of arts rich practice: Teaching in and through the Arts (1st CI) $60,000
• Creativity: Representational practices in artistic domains (1st CI), 46,000
• A development project for the scoping of the Singapore early years longitudinal study (1st CI), $72,000
• Nurturing innovation in primary one classrooms through early childhood practices (1st CI), 92,000
• Early intervention of Malay preschool teachers in promoting children’s mathematics learning (2nd, CI), $238,000
• Curriculum implementation in early primary schools in Singapore (2nd CI), 85,000
• A study on the implementation of the ‘Strategies for Effective and Engaged Development’ (SEED) curriculum innovation (3rd CI), $34,000
• Using embedded technology support (i-CUBE) for children’s conceptual development through play (5th CI), ,068,000
• An investigation of visual and verbal metaphor comprehension through computer modelling (2nd CI), 2,000
• Understanding children’s dual coding processes using visual and verbal communication systems while depicting Futures (1st CI), $8,500
• Assisting composition with artificial intelligence (4th CI), 6,000
• Cross-domain links between musical and verbal metaphors (1st CI), 2,500
• Identifying young children’s, teachers’ and parents’ concepts in relation to shaping positive futures (1st CI), 6,500
• The identification of musical and cognitive skill components in the musical inventions of young children (2nd CI), $99,000
• Using multimedia for improving the quality of teaching and learning in multi-disciplinary, early childhood education (1st CI), $40,000
• The relationship between meter recognition ability, information processing competence, visual perception and physical responsiveness to music (1st CI), 7,750
• Frances Derham Scholarship for the arts in early childhood education, 0,000
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Credentials
Positions
Positions
Honorary
Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Newcastle
Master of Education
University of Alberta
Bachelor of Education
University of Alberta