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Fiona Brooker

Head of Teacher Education

As Head of Teacher Education, Fiona works closely with the Director of Education and Faculty of Education Senior Management to provide strategic leadership and oversight of the Faculty of Education’s dance teacher training provision. She also contributes to postgraduate, undergraduate and professional programmes in the Faculty where she supervises research projects and tutoring in the areas of dance education, dance analysis and socio-cultural theory.

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Qualifications

MA Education, BA (Hons), LRAD

Teaching and management

  • BA (Hons) Ballet Education
  • Master of Arts in Education (Dance Teaching)

Research interests and projects

  • Gender, identity and embodiment
  • Feminist and democratic teaching practices
  • Assessing dance technique

Publications

  • Ritchie, Ashleigh and Fiona Brooker: “Democratic Pedagogy in the Ballet Technique Class: Using a somatic imagery tool to support learning and teaching of ballet in higher education”, Journal of Dance Education. Oct 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2019.1588463
  • Brooker, Fiona: “Silver Swans and Principles of Adult Learning”, Focus on Education, Issue 20, March 2018.
  • Ritchie, Ashleigh and Fiona Brooker (2018): “Imaging the future: An auto-ethnographic journey of using a guided and cognitive-specific imagery intervention in undergraduate release-based contemporary dance technique”, Research in Dance Education, Vol.19, No 2, pp.167-182 DOI:10.1080/14647893.2018.1467397

Conference presentations

  • ‘Valuing, sustaining and developing dance technique in Higher Education” Curated Panel for Sustaining the Discipline: Embedding the Right to Dance in the 21st Century. DanceHE Conference, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, October 2016 (with Katy Chambers, Libby Costello and Ashleigh Ritchie).
  • ‘Making practice visible as a research outcome’. Conference presentation with Libby Costello. DanceHE symposium: Dance in the 21st Century: Questioning methods of practice, pedagogy and research, Bedfordshire University, April 2016.
  • ‘Dance Education: Making a Difference’. Keynote presentation with Lee Davall. Harris Federation Teaching and Learning Conference, October 2015.

Research supervision

Valuing dance in education

Reading dancing bodies

Developing identity as a dance practitioner

Feminist and democratic teaching practices in the ballet studio