Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Associate Professor Jenkins is the Deputy Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Associate Professor Jenkins' research focuses on music education and inclusive education practices across all disciplines. In particular, she is interested in ways in which educators can support students from differing backgrounds and experiences to reach their academic and personal potential. Leveraging her previous inclusive research in the areas of cultural inclusion for migrant and refugee youth, she is now investigating pre-service teachers' confidence and comfort about working with LGBTIQ students. This inclusive research focus is combined with her development of Professional Development programs for classrooom music teachers about effective ways to work with students with disabilities. She leverages her strong performing arts background as a means to drive socially inclusive educational practices and to include students more actively in their educational life.
Associate Professor Jenkins' strong teacher practitioner focus and emphasis on teacher-led research, underpin all of her work. She uses Action Research and Experiential Learning to drive flexible and contemporary teaching practice, including the combination of a Blended Learning and Experiential Learning approach in the music method classroom. This combined approach has underpinned innovative changes to her work with her pre-service students and led to an international collaboration in the area of Online Live English Teaching. The Blended Learning and Experiential Learning approach is underpinned by pedagogy which re-considers the role of the teacher and student in the classroom. She has disseminated the findings of her research and innovative teacher practitioner work via various national and international journals, a book and book chapters and through the delivery of papers at a wide range of conference papers in New Zealand, London, Paris, Athens, United States, Canada and Australia.
Associate Professor Jenkins also uses historical research methodology to inform and give perspective to all that she does. Her ground breaking research about Australian women music educators from 1890-1950 enabled a more complex understanding of her work in socially inclusive education and inclusive student advising. The early Australian women music educators faced prejudice and discrimination, as well as social exclusion, which aligns and relfects the types of experiences students from minority groups and diverse backgrounds can experience today.
Current and prior PhD supervisions include:
- Returning to instrumental music performance and music teaching post COVID-19
- Creating compassionate schools: Principals implementing compassionate school leadership
- Internationalising the student experience: Australian domestic student perspectives
- Flow experiences in Shakuhachi teaching via skype
- What is the impact of the Early Learning Years Framework on teaching music in preschool classrooms?
- The impact of mindfulness on pre-service music teachers
- Instrumental practice with digital technology: Facilitating children's self-regulation of music learning
- International Chinese students' perceptions of social experiences at an Australian university
- Embodied creativity: The phenomenology of early childhood dance.
- Music Performance anxiety: educational relationships between instrumental music teachers and students
- The influence of Confucianism and Western Psychological and religious Culture on Identity and Music Learning among Chinese Musicians
- An examination of the work of studio music teachers as a contribution to the musical life of Victoria, 1900-1950.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Performing arts, social inclusion and health and wellbeing
- Socially inclusive curriculum and school environments
- Blended Learning
- International Chinese students in Australian universities
- Australian women music teachers, performers, composers
- Mindfulness and pre-service music teachers
- Health and wellbeing of university students
- Qualitative methodology
- Case study
- Music
- Music Education
- Team teaching
- Working with disability in classroom music
- Experiential Learning
Network
Projects
- 7 Finished
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Development of Numeracy Across the Curriculum Resources - Phase 3
Kidman, G., Hall, J., Forgasz, H., Faigen, B., Wolfe, M., Ludecke, M., Crawford, R., Hall, C., Grimmett, H., Blannin, J., Tudball, E. & Jenkins, L.
31/05/21 → 30/11/21
Project: Research
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Developing the inclusive practice of classroom music teachers: Enhancing the learning experiences of students with disabilities
1/05/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Professional Standards for Teachers of Online Live Language Training
Zhang, H., Chan, W., Jenkins, L. & Tour, K.
18/07/19 → 1/02/20
Project: Research
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Digital listening tools to facilitate children’s self-regulation of instrumental music practice
Wan, L., Crawford, R. & Jenkins, L., Apr 2023, In: Journal of Research in Music Education. 71, 1, p. 67-90 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Developing the inclusive practice of classroom music teachers to enhance the learning experiences of students with disabilities: a review of the literature
Jenkins, L., Crawford, R. & Bleeker, O., 28 Oct 2022, p. 25-26. 2 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Experiential Learning in Initial Teacher Education courses: connecting the university learning to the professional space
Jenkins, L., May 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Experiential learning projects as a form of assessment to develop contemporary arts pedagogies in initial teacher education
Jenkins, L. & Crawford, R., 4 Jul 2022. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Open Access -
Facilitating self-regulation of instrumental practice with digital technology: a framework, a synthesis of literature and a call for research
Wan, L., Crawford, R. & Jenkins, L., 2022, In: Australian Journal of Music Education. 54, 2, p. 83-98 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Award for Teaching Excellence
Jenkins, Louise (Recipient), Dec 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dean's Award for Partnership Development
Jenkins, Louise (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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MPA Supervisor of the Year Award Finalist
Jenkins, Louise (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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MPA Supervisor of the Year Award Finalist
Jenkins, Louise (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence Finalist
Jenkins, Louise (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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University of Hong Kong Experiential Learning Seminar Series 2022
Louise Jenkins (Invited speaker)
12 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 2019
Renee Crawford (Speaker) & Louise Jenkins (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Inquiry into the extent, benefits and potential of music education in Victorian schools (Parliament of Victoria: Education and Training Committee)
Louise Jenkins (Speaker)
Nov 2013Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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International Society for Music Education (External organisation)
Louise Jenkins (Member)
2013 → 2022Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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The impact of racism on the health and wellbeing of young Australians
Louise Jenkins (Contributor)
2009Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research and teaching
Press/Media
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Improved ITE courses can make classrooms more LGBT-inclusive
Blake Cutler, Megan Adams & Louise Jenkins
8/04/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The importance of Initial Teacher Education courses in the development of LGBTIQ+ inclusive school classrooms
Louise Jenkins, Blake Cutler & Megan Adams
31/03/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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Trans inclusivity in schools must start with teachers
Blake Cutler, Megan Adams & Louise Jenkins
31/03/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment