Education
2010 PhD
Title: The constructed voice: A socio-cultural approach to teaching and learning singing
1996 M.Mus (Voice) Manhattan School of Music
1991 B.Mus. (Voice) Canberra School of Music
Excelsia Academic Staff
Head of School of Creative & Performing Arts
Associate Professor Lotte Latukefu
PhD M.Mus (Voice)
Contact Details
Telephone Number
02 9000 9604
lotte.latukefu@excelsia.edu.au
Biographical details
Associate Professor Lotte Latukefu is Head of Performing Arts. Prior to that she lectured in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong for 18 years. She is well known internationally as a researcher within the field of Higher Music Education and Performance-led research and made a major contribution to these fields. In 2015 she undertook a Research Fellowship at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).
Profile of Dr Lotte Latukefu
Awards and Honours
2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
2011 Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award (UOW)
1994 Fulbright Scholar
Research Interests
Recent and current research includes collaborative learning, practice-led research, portfolio career training and socio-cultural approaches to teaching and learning music and drama at tertiary level.
Current projects
Training Creative Entrepreneurs for Life After Graduation (Latukefu and Pollard)
Selected publications
Book Chapters
Latukefu, L., Verenikina, I., (In press). The role of play in developing self-regulated learning in singing at a tertiary level in J. Encarnao and D. Blom (Eds.) Giddy Up – Teaching and evaluating music performance at university: Beyond the conservatory model. Routledge
Latukefu, L., Rooney, D. (In Press) Discovery and Learning, Inclusion and Inspiration in the HONK! Oz Workshops and Pick-up Band in E. Field, A. Snyder, R. Garofolo (eds). HONK!: Mapping a Street Band Renaissance. Routledge
Latukefu, L., O”Donnell, M., Hayes, J., Burns, S. G., Ellmers, G. N. & Stirling, J. (2013). Fire in the belly: Building resilience in creative practitioners through experiential and authentically designed learning environments in J. Holmes (Ed.). The CALTN papers (pp. 59-61). Creative Arts Teaching and Learning Network: Hobart
Latukefu, L. & Verenikina, I. (2013). Expanding the master-apprentice model: tool for orchestrating collaboration as a path to self-directed learning for singing students in H. Gaunt & H. Westerlund (Eds.), Collaborative Learning in Higher Music Education: Why, What and How? (pp. 101-109). Ashgate: London
Journal Papers
Latukefu, L., & Ginsborg, J. (2018). Understanding what we mean by portfolio training in music. British Journal of Music Education, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S0265051718000207
Latukefu, L., Burns, S. G., O’Donnell, M. & Whelan, A. M. (2014). Enabling music students to respond positively to adversity in work after graduation: A reconsideration of conventional pedagogies in Higher Music Education. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 11 (1)
Latukefu, L. & Verenikina, I. (2011). Scientific concepts: Do they belong in a student toolbox of learning? British Journal of Music Education, 28 (2), 181-194.