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Adrienne has long standing experience in education, having had a career in early childhood education and teacher education since the 1970s. Adrienne is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education where she teaches Dance and Drama in early childhood and primary teacher education.
Adrienne has a developing interest and involvement in cultural studies and research with teaching experience at undergraduate level in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (UNCG).
Having a strong interest in dance education, especially for young children, Adrienne is currently Research Officer on the executive and advisory board of Dance and the Child International (daCi).
Other memberships include:
- DANZ (Dance New Zealand)
- American Education Studies Association (AESA)
- South Eastern American Studies (SEAS)
Academic interests for Adrienne include exploring the concept of social democracy, social justice, and social change through the arts, specifically through dance and drama as well as research and writing pertaining to the arts in education, critical theory, and cultural studies.
Research and creative outputs
Research outputs include:
- Doctoral dissertation, My life and body through dance: The ontological search for critical meaning in dance education.
- Masters thesis, The meaning of dance in early childhood.
Other outputs include the following published papers:
- My life, my body, my dance. (due 2008)
Chapter in S. Shapiro (Ed.), Dance, power and difference: Dance in a world of change. Champaign,IL: Human Kinetics.
- The consciously lived body: Rediscovering embodied knowing. (2007)
Chapter in S. Shapiro, K. Latham, & S. Ross (Eds.), Boston, MA: Pearson.
- A. Sansom et al. Dialogue, reflection, and critical analysis: Self/Other crossing ideological borders. (2007)
In, D. Brunson, B. Jarmon, & L. Lampl (Eds.), Letters from the Future: Linking students and teaching with the diversity of everyday life. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
- Rudolph von Laban: Dance education theorist. (2007)
Chapter in J. Kincheloe & R. Horn (Eds.), The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- A. Sansom et al. Bewitched - revisited: A queer read. (2007)
In D. Macedo & S. Steinberg (Eds.), Media Literacy: A Reader. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
- The body in early childhood: Revisioning dance. In, The First Years: Nga Tau Tuatahi. New Zealand Journal of Infant Toddler Education (8(2). (2006)
- A. Sansom. Decolonizing bodies: Is the body an endangered species? Reconceptualizing the body in early childhood. Paper presented at the 14th International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference: Research, Theory and Practice. (2006)
- A. Sansom et al. International teaching artists: Beginning an overseas dialogue. (2004). Teaching Artist Journal 2(4).
- Implementing drama in an early childhood setting. (2001)
NZADIE Journal
- Dance for young children. (2001)
(http://www.childforum.com)
- There’s more to dance than meets the eye. (2000)
New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education, 3.
- The dancing child. (2000)
New Zealand Journal of Infant Toddler Education, 2(2).
- Babies dance too! Dancing starts at an early age. (1999)
In, The First Years: Nga Tau Tuatahi. New Zealand Journal of Infant Toddler Education 1(1).
