Dina Zoe Belluigi

Lecturer for the PGDHE; Evaluation Practices; Creative Arts Curricula; Tutor Development and evaluation consultant.

D.Belluigi@ru.ac.za

Dina Zoe Belluigi

As with the other academic members of CHERTL, Dina consults with and advises individuals and departments within Rhodes University. In addition to postgraduate supervision, she teaches courses for the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education and for the first semester of 2013, will be teaching the Rhodes Assessors’ Course.

Dina has been researching a range of areas, from assessment to evaluation. Her Masters in Education thesis explored the disjunctions between the espoused and the practiced in the case studied, considering issues of student agency, intentionality and ethical relations between teacher and student. In addition, she has particular interest in teaching and learning in the creative arts disciplines. Her current research, towards her PhD, is to do with interpretative frameworks utilised in assessment, and to what extent these should consider student intentionality. In addition, she is researching towards understanding the interaction between learning and the conditions for creativity.

She sits on the Gender Action Committee, the Teaching and Learning Committee, and is a member of the Education and Humanities Faculties, amongst others.

Dina is also a practising artist. Her background is in Fine Art Studio Practice, which she taught for a number of years. She has a Master in Fine Art degree.

For up to date information see http://rhodes-za.academia.edu/DinaZoeBelluigi

Selected Publications

2013:

Belluigi, D. Z. 2013. Playing broken telephone with student feedback: the possibilities and issues in transformation within a South African case of a collegial rationality model of evaluation. Chapter in Nair, S. & Mertova, P. (eds). Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Student Feedback in Social Sciences, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK.

2012:

Belluigi, D. Z. 2012. Provoking ethical relationships. Chapter in Quinn, L. (Ed). Reimagining academic staff development: spaces for disruption. Stellenbosch: SunMedia.

2011:  

Nygaard, C. & Belluigi, D.Z. 2011. A proposed methodology for contextualised evaluation in higher education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 36 No. 6: 657-671. First published on: 20 April 2010 (iFirst).

Belluigi, D. Z. ‘Intentionality in a creative arts curriculum’, The Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 45 No. 1: 18-36.

De Vos, M. & Belluigi, D. Z. Formative assessment as mediation. Perspective in Education Vol 29 No. 2: 39-47.

2010:

Belluigi, D. Z. & Meistre, B. A. After Image: Using metaphoric storytelling in the evaluation of a fine art photography course. Chapter inClaus Nygaard & Clive Holtham (eds.): ‘Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching’. Calibri Press.

Belluigi, D. Z. Creating the conditions for creativity: looking at assessment in fine art studio practice. Chapter in Claus Nygaard & Clive Holtham (eds.): ‘Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching’. Calibri Press.

2009:

Belluigi, D. Z. Exploring the discourses around ‘creativity’ and ‘critical thinking’ in a South African creative arts curriculum. Studies in Higher Education. VOl. 34, No. 6: 699-717.

2008:

Belluigi, D. Z. ‘Making allowance for doubt: Arguing for validity in evaluation processes’. Chapter in Claus Nygaard & Clive Holtham (eds.): “UNDERSTANDING LEARNING-CENTRED HIGHER EDUCATION”, CBS PRESS, August 2008, 361p.

Belluigi, D. Z. Excavating the ‘Critique’: An investigation into disjunctions between the espoused and the practiced within a Fine Art Studio Practice curriculum. Master of Education thesis, Unpublished, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Available at http://eprints.ru.ac.za/972/01/BelluigiMEd2008.pdf

2007:

D.Z Belluigi & B.A. Meistre. ‘Desperately Seeking Meaning: Making Mnemic Metaphors in the Formative Evaluation of Visual Arts Education’. Presented by D.Z Belluigi at HELTASA, Bloemfontein, November 19-21 2007.

‘Using evaluation to improve the practice of Foundation Courses’, a development workshop run at the ‘Conversations about Foundation’ Conference, 1 & October 2007, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Published in Conversations about Foundation, J. Garraway [Ed], Cape Peninsula of Technology. ISBN 978-0-620-42102-7

Karekezi, C. W., Wrench, W., Quinn, L., Belluigi, D., & Srinivas, S. C. Design, Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation of a New Service-Learning Elective for Pharmacy Students in Education as change, Vol. 11, Issue 3: 143-156. URL: http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_edchange.html)

Belluigi, D. Z. Making the Student Feedback Questionnaire a contextual, reflective tool for teacher and student alike. Paper presented at July 2007 European League for the Institute of the Arts (ELIA) Teaching Academy Conference, Brighton University . Published in ELIA Teachers’ Academy Papers, A. Boddington 7 D. Clews (eds), 2008. Nottingham Trent University. ISBN: 978-7-905593-07-1

2006:

Excavating Illuminations: Scratching the textured surfaces of Tammy Griffin’s ‘Intimate Circuits’, inIntimate Circuits, Griffin, T. [ed]. The Artist, Grahamstown.

2004:

Denoting absence: some notes on Brent Meistre’s ‘Sans’, in Sans: desire for a beginning, dread for a single end. Meistre, B. [ed]The Artist, Grahamstown.

2002:

Belluigi, D. Z. BROKEN VESSELS: The im-possibility of remembrance and recollection in the works of Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, William Kentridge and Santu Mofokeng. Master of Fine Art thesis, Unpublished, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Available at: http://eprints.ru.ac.za/971/%20Exhibition title: mneme

2001:

Detritus on Brent Meistre’s ‘Rode’, in Rode. Meistre, B. [ed] The Artist, Grahamstown.